[Paddlewise] Rescuer's feat 'remarkable'

Dear friends, I am a lurker in this list. A friend in ND, knowing that I am a
kayaker (of sorts), sent me the link to this article, which I thought was
very interesting.

This account was published in the Fargo ND newspaper In-Forum. It relates how
a Choung Nget, a Cambodian immigrant, a small man physically, risked his life
to rescue two 200+lb boaters from a sure death situation. The article,
written by Joe Whetham, describes   the details of the rescue.
In the article, a kayaker from Moorhead, Matt Ahonen, calls this feat
"remarkable".
The article says in part :
<<Ahonen, 30, a whitewater kayaker who has been canoeing the Red River for
more than 20 years, marveled at how Nget risked his life to drag the brothers
from treacherous waters below a low-head dam b an often misconceived and
deadly
water trap.>>
The two boaters were in a canoe that capsized in the waters of a low-head
dam.
bThey nickname (a low-head dam) the Maytag,b Ahonen said, referring to a
washing machine. bIt just keeps you in like a load of clothes. It circulates
you,
takes you down, crashes you against the rocks and brings you back up. You
couldnbt get the top whitewater paddlers in the world to go into a low-head
damn
like that.b   This is what Ahonen calls a "drowning machine", which also, he
says  "makes Ngetbs feat that much more incredible."
The link to the article

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=100536&section=News

I never heard about this "low-head dam" situation, and I thought that may be
other paddlers should know about it.

Best regards,      Hap Prado
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