Drowning while swimming with friends. RIP.

6am seems like a weird time unless they were fishing or something.

Too many young people die from doing "something" at odd hours.

Well if they were out all night on the boat that might explain things. Sad story. RIP Ray Emery

No need to explain. No need to look for reasons. It’s a young man out living his life and It’s just a tragic event. Thoughts with his friends and family.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote:No need to explain. No need to look for reasons. It’s a young man out living his life and It’s just a tragic event. Thoughts with his friends and family.

+1 on all sentiments.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote:No need to explain. No need to look for reasons. It’s a young man out living his life and It’s just a tragic event. Thoughts with his friends and family.

Exactly.

Drowning can happen very fast. A few years ago I was kayaking on the Arkansas River in Colorado. There is a string of class IV rapids on the Arkansas called the numbers... they are big rapids with long runs. I flipped off of my boat and was trying to get up right when I went under. I was on my way up and I hit my buddies boat, so I went down again...this was when things got r4eally golden and I felt like I could just drift off to sleep, and that is when I told myself to start fighting to the surface or you are going to drown. Something very similar happened to me the next summer...I do not kayak anymore.

This is a sad story. I am sorry for his family.

CaptSMRT wrote:Drowning can happen very fast. A few years ago I was kayaking on the Arkansas River in Colorado. There is a string of class IV rapids on the Arkansas called the numbers... they are big rapids with long runs. I flipped off of my boat and was trying to get up right when I went under. I was on my way up and I hit my buddies boat, so I went down again...this was when things got r4eally golden and I felt like I could just drift off to sleep, and that is when I told myself to start fighting to the surface or you are going to drown. Something very similar happened to me the next summer...I do not kayak anymore.

This is a sad story. I am sorry for his family.

Been in a situation like that, kayaking. Got flipped over, ended up tangled in some underwater branches. It's pretty easy to lose your sense of direction of which was is up or down. I still kayak though, love it. But more of a casual kayaker.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote:

CaptSMRT wrote:Drowning can happen very fast. A few years ago I was kayaking on the Arkansas River in Colorado. There is a string of class IV rapids on the Arkansas called the numbers... they are big rapids with long runs. I flipped off of my boat and was trying to get up right when I went under. I was on my way up and I hit my buddies boat, so I went down again...this was when things got r4eally golden and I felt like I could just drift off to sleep, and that is when I told myself to start fighting to the surface or you are going to drown. Something very similar happened to me the next summer...I do not kayak anymore.

This is a sad story. I am sorry for his family.

Been in a situation like that, kayaking. Got flipped over, ended up tangled in some underwater branches. It's pretty easy to lose your sense of direction of which was is up or down. I still kayak though, love it. But more of a casual kayaker.

After two big swims...I'm not sure I really enjoy the risk of class IV and up.

CaptSMRT wrote:After two big swims...I'm not sure I really enjoy the risk of class IV and up.

Little comfort to Emery's family, as there aren't many rapids in the harbour of Hamilton, ON.

JMC-STL wrote:

CaptSMRT wrote:After two big swims...I'm not sure I really enjoy the risk of class IV and up.

Little comfort to Emery's family, as there aren't many rapids in the harbour of Hamilton, ON.

Right. So, like many other drownings, it was probably too much drinking or partying or something.

R.I.P. to the Emery family.