The Acorn Science Club rented canoes and put in for a day float at the narrows bridge south of Caddo Gap and floated down river to the DeArien property where they encountered a fork in the river.  At this fork, slow water went right and fast flowing water went left and all canoes went left and in the left fork was a tree pile and the canoes started to impact this debris pile and get hung up.  As V1 approached the tree, a kayak got hung up in the tree and V1 impacted the kayak and pushed it onto the tree (no damage).  The victim who was in the front of V1 tried to push off the tree with her paddle and V1 filled with water and capsized.  Victim went under water and got hung up on a root ball and was under water for an undetermined period of time.  It took several rescuers to extract her from the tree and when she was brought to the surface, she was not breathing.  She was taken to shore and CPR was initiated.  Victim began breathing on her own and was transported by ambulance to Glenwood where an Air Life Helicopter was waiting and took her to Childrens Hospital.
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