Rescue at Go Left During the 27th Annual Green River Narrows Race 2022-11-05

[@benjamindbailey]

Great video of a real-life swiftwater rescue situation. Thanks for videoing and sharing this!

[@quinoa_fuego4543]

Good rescue but there was enough people there to stop paddlers from coming upstream into the ropes and potentially deteriorate the situation.

[@pitviper7924]

Excellent point.

[@timothyberry9084]

Thanks to the people doing risky stuff to keep these people safe. I know they got a rope attached to them but still one wrong move and that water is sweeping you away.

[@resparer]

Nicely done!🎉

[@jerrygreene1493]

I once invented a 3' snorkle tube that goes under your spray skirt; you can breathe out of the hull of your boat when upside down, and can also be used in a broach situation if you head goes under water.

[@whitewater-video]

Breathing your own farts! 😄

[@shable1436]

You mean you just shoved a hose between your body and spray skirt 😂

[@joeabbruzzesi6657]

@@whitewater-videobetter than breathing water

[@jjascomb]

Nice work by the Safety volunteers.

[@eldril1009]

great team work

[@traviskelly3069]

Excellent work on the rescue.

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

Thanks!

[@macfawlty]

Over 12k views in 3 days! Now that’s a good way to get more subs to your growing channel. Rescues and carnage are always popular… and instructional.

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

I posted it to get feedback - and I think there has been some constructive feedback already, and because I think it has the potential to help others get better with their swiftwater rescue skills, too. As for the rest, if people like videos of Little Falls, great, but it's not important.

[@macfawlty]

@@paddlebikediveclimb of course, that was a tongue-in-cheek comment. Your Little Falls videos are a reference library for any local or visiting paddler. Videos of PFDs and river fests from 2022 are a good model for labeling and captioning. You really dedicated yourself this year.

[@macfawlty]

Man, that’s probably one of the worst places to pin, particularly considering the swim. I was wondering what would have happened if he got unpinned with 2 throw ropes attached to the bow. Not an easy paddler extraction.

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

1 stabilization line on his bow. The second line was thrown to him, and he was holding on while we pulled him out. The sling on his stern wasn't able to move the boat at all, and it dangled in the water once we let it go, and came out with his boat. No knots in it so it wouldn't chock in something on the way out.

[@macd6416]

Really unsettling to see the boater and safety crew wiggling and jiggling the boat with the paddler in it, trying to unpin with the ropes attached. That’s a good way to hang a man, or get him tangled in a web of rope if he flushed down through the rapid. Once the bow and stern lines were attached, all parties should have been focused on extracting the boater, and then the boat. All in all a great recovery, just a few key points to take away and heed for the next recovery.

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

I appreciate the feedback, thank you!

[@andemeyer6413]

This was a great rescue--swift and efficient. However, I'm not clear why traffic wasn't stopped until the rescue was complete. A boat going into the ropes could have made a bad situation much worse.

[@briankrueger1142]

Fantastic rescue(s)!

[@michaelpryor78]

Me whenever I get around to running Go Left

[@drosophilamelanogaster4625]

Im dismayed at how much pre staged people and equipment in place but no clear upstream lookout holding a horizontal paddle to stop other boaters

[@ronactive]

Ein Alptraum für jeden Kajakfahrer. Aber klasse gerettet. Grüße ronactive

[@rodolfodickson9500]

Awesome!

[@michaelrobinson1268]

Why didn’t they stop other paddlers coming down while the kayaker was stuck, looking at the video in hind site all the ropes deployed had no hope of freeing up the kayak. Good result in that no one was seriously injured I hope

[@giuseppepino5390]

Why didn't you stop the people upstream? It s easy that situation get worst

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

There is a slower, safer line to the river right of where the boat was pinned. We were directing traffic that way. I don't know what the race protocols are for completely stopping the race. The upstream safety had eyes on us and was telling racers to take the right line. We were also telling racers to take the right line even before they came down the drop to where we were. I'm not sure what happened with the one guy who didn't turn in time to have a smooth line around the pin.

[@curtismay3755]

Great job by all.

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

Thanks! You were pretty hard on yourself in your race video, but you did a great job!

[@goji059]

well done

[@ericargento4429]

Hopefully a helpful suggestion there’s so much movement and action happening the steadier the camera is held and the smoother the pans much more enjoyable is the whole video. Thank you for being there a beautiful part of North Carolina 👍

[@katesajammer1905]

this is a GoPro on a helmet, as much as we all love perfect video this safety volunteer is responsible enough not to have a camera in hand and care more about the person being rescued

[@stonecutter205]

wow!

[@nannettehuffman8397]

Why in the hell isn’t someone up river stopping boats from coming down?

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

There were multiple people upstream directing racers down the right line. In the case of the boater at the end of the video, they didn't quite make the turn to take the open line.

[@nannettehuffman8397]

@@paddlebikediveclimb seemed the paddlers were inexperienced, and should of been stopped from continuing down and making a bad situation an deathly situation. No race is worth that. None. Charlie would agree with me.

[@macfawlty]

Over 41k views in 10 days? Trending>Viral>>>

[@hipernet]

Excuse the question, but what's so terrible about that section in particular?

[@eldril1009]

steep shalow seeve easy to pin

[@arlie505]

nice !

[@raycorcoles7669]

What state

[@paddlebikediveclimb]

North Carolina

[@jstpsgthru]

Good video. It looks like there are still a lot of idiots that paddle above their capability, based on the guy that was pinned and two guys getting sideways.

[@russell7489]

Needed a better way to direct racers like I don't know A ROPE or two or three and a half doz people with BULL HORNS

[@macfawlty]

60k views @ 2 weeks!

[@hardluk3]

That could have been much worse.

[@trendingtigers]

a line on the bow pulled to the right would have freed that boat up quite easily.

[@wigleboy]

,,.Lengendary frog man rescue.

[@svenwalker5955]

The kayaker should have exited the kayak more quickly. Him sitting in boat simply kept the kayak pinned down against the rock with extra weight.

[@stevefrazier2214]

Out of control… these people have no business gently rowing down the stream…