
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, October 12, 1993                   TAG: 9310120157
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BREAKS                                LENGTH: Short

TEEN DROWNS TRAINING TO GUIDE RAFTING TRIPS

A Tennessee teen-ager training as a white-water rafting guide drowned over the weekend on the Russell Fork, the first rafting death since the stretch was opened six years ago along the Kentucky-Virginia border.

Jason Chad Campbell, 17, of Erwin, Tenn., was entering the Triple Drop, a quick series of 5-, 8- and 9-foot vertical drops, when he was bumped from the raft, said Superintendent Carl Mullins of the Breaks Interstate Park. Campbell was swept under a rock ledge and became entangled in rope and other debris that had collected there, Mullins said.

Mullins said the accident occurred around noon Saturday. He said Campbell was under water for up to 30 minutes while the other two guides in the boat attempted to rescue him. - Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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