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June 9, 2009
Wilmington pastor, brother may have
fallen victims to dam
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March 7th 2008 And we've lost another one
locally. Click here.
“The sad thing
is if the two people involved in this accident had been wearing life
jackets, it’s very likely both of them would have walked away,” Delaware
Division of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Sgt. Gregory Rhodes said. “With a
tragic thing like this happening, we’d like to remind people as they head
out on the water this spring to wear their life jackets and observe safe
boating practices.”
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Three
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We recently lost a fine man, a padding machine, an
experienced kayaker, and a friend while he was out paddling the Potomac River
Feb 26th 2006. We've set up a special page to report information
about the incident. See Mitch
But the week after Mitch's death we still saw reports like this: We went out for a DC city Potomac paddle on Saturday, the weather and
conditions were beautiful with near 68 degree air. On the way back to the take
out, we came upon an overturned double with a young man and woman in the
water, both were in jeans and Tees but wearing pfd's. They said they had just
capsized when we found them. We TX'd (not easy) the boat and got them back
in, then shepherded them to shore, where they got dry, dry clothes and hot tea
from our group. The woman was in pretty good shape, but the guy was ashen and
had lost a lot of motor control. They were in the water about 4 minutes and
another 4 to dry on shore. They had borrowed the kayak from a friend. They
were very lucky.
We saw no other paddlers properly dressed for the water temp,
most were in cotton and even no shirt, no pfd.
Mike Aronoff ACA
ITE, BCU Coach
Canoe, Kayak and Paddle Co., LLC.
2218 Nobehar Dr., Vienna, Va 22181
www.CKAPCO.com
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"With certain combinations in nature, you're playing a high-risk game. Many
times you survive," said Bruce Johnson, a retired U.S. Naval Academy professor
who specializes in the safety of small boats. "This combination turned out to be
deadly." about the sinking of the Ethan Allen in Lake Champlain.
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Millsboro
man's body recovered from pond
from the
Coastal Point and the
News Journal
A canoe ride on a sunny spring-like afternoon ended in a possible drowning
Wednesday, with divers continuing to search Ingrams Pond near Millsboro
Thursday morning. According to Sgt. Gregory Rhodes of Fish and Wildlife
Enforcement, two people paddled a canoe out on the state-owned pond.
Witnesses saw the canoe capsize and both occupants were thrown into the
50-degree water.
A witness attempted to swim out to render assistance, but turned back due to
the cold water.
One canoe passenger was able to swim the 50 feet to shore, but witnesses
saw the other disappear from view and called 911 at 3:50 p.m.
Fish and Wildlife Enforcement, Delaware State Police and fire company
rescue teams from Millsboro, Seaford, Roxana, Laurel and Selbyville
responded to search for the victim.
The search was suspended late Wednesday evening and resumed Thursday
morning, with the victim still missing and presumed drowned.
“The sad thing is, if the two people involved in this accident had been
wearing life jackets, it’s very likely both of them would have walked away,”
Rhodes said. “With a tragic thing like this happening, we’d like to remind
people as they head out on the water this spring to wear their life jackets
and observe safe boating practices.”
No names are being released at this time, pending the outcome of the
search and notification of family.
March 11th it was reported his name
as Dashawnta E. Tingle, 27. The cause of death has not been released,
it is assumed he drowned.
The News
Journal
Posted Friday, March 7, 2008
The body of a 27-year-old man who
fell into Ingram Pond west of Millsboro was found Thursday.
Dive teams recovered the body at 3:50
p.m., 24 hours after the canoe he and a friend were riding in capsized in the
50-degree water.
The man's name has not been released
because authorities were trying to contact family members in Virginia. Though he
lived in Millsboro, he did not have relatives in Delaware, they said.
Sgt. Gregory Rhodes, of the state
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said the man and his
friend's canoe flipped over when they were about 50 feet from shore in the pond.
They were with two other friends who
went to a recreation area there. The other man who was in the canoe was able to
swim to shore.
Dive crews searched for the missing
man until midnight Wednesday and resumed Thursday morning. His body has been
turned over to the medical examiner's
office to determine an official
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2 Easton hunters feared drowned
Canoe overturned during duck hunting trip in Somerset County
By GREG MAKI
Staff Writer
January 18, 2005
click to enlarge
A. STENECKER ... missing
Click to enlarge
C. HASCHEN ... returns
safely
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FRENCHTOWN — Natural Resources Police are looking for two Easton men
whose canoe overturned Monday morning during a hunting trip in Somerset County.
Cpl. Ron Turner identified the men as Matthew B. Cowdrey and Andrew D.
Stenecker, both 20.
Turner said the two men were duck hunting with another man, Chad M. Haschen,
20, also of Easton, in the Flatland Cove area off of the Big Annemessex River
near Frenchtown.
Early Monday morning, the men, Cowdrey and Stenecker in a canoe, Haschen in a
kayak, took to the water and walked across a marshy area to hunt, Turner said.
As they returned in their vessels, 20 to 25 mph winds blew them out to deeper
waters.
The canoe carrying Cowdrey and Stenecker overturned 100 to 150 yards
offshore, Turner said.
Haschen paddled back to shore and called for help. Natural Resources Police
were notified at 8:20 a.m., Turner said.
A search and rescue mission began. NRP boats and a helicopter, the U.S. Coast
Guard and several area fire departments participated in the search. A Coast
Guard helicopter took over the aerial search when the NRP chopper returned to
Easton to refuel.
Later Monday, the mission changed to "search and recovery," Turner said..
The water was moving too much to freeze, Turner said, but its temperature was
probably close to 32 degrees. No one could survive long under such conditions,
he said. Water froze as it lapped up on the shore.
An NRP boat was to continue the search until dark Monday, Turner said. The
mission was to continue at first light Tuesday.
All three men played on the Easton High School lacrosse team. Haschen and
Stenecker graduated from Easton High in 2002. Cowdrey, the son of prominent
Easton attorney, Roy B. Cowdrey, transferred to McDonogh School in Owings Mills
after his sophomore year. He graduated from McDonogh in 2003.
ed.
The canoeist was not dressed for immersion and the kayak did not know proper
rescue techniques. But then again the boys probably drowned within
seconds of hitting the water from the "Cold Water Gasp Reflex". The second boy's
body was finally found, neither wore life
vests.
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Kayaker
died of shock from cold water |
Last updated Mar 9
2006 11:55 AM AST
CBC News |
| German authorities say Tiffany Tanner died
almost instantly when she fell out of her kayak last month.
Prosecutor Haiko Oltmanns said Thursday an autopsy revealed the
20-year-old Darmouth native went into shock when she hit the cold water and
died when she couldn't take in enough air.
"It's clear that this death was not the result of a violent crime.
Instead, it was simply a tragic accident," he said in German.
A canal worker found Tanner's body in a harbour along the Datteln-Hamm
canal Wednesday morning, about two weeks after she vanished.
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Tanner was not wearing a life jacket or wetsuit when she went paddling
down the canal on Feb. 19.
Her kayaking partners led the way back to the boathouse. When they looked
back, Tanner was gone. Her overturned kayak was found under a bridge.
Even as a good swimmer, Tanner would not have had a chance in the 3 C
water, Oltmanns said.
"When the body suddenly falls into very cold water, it goes into shock
and can't breathe properly, causing death within a matter of seconds."
It's still unclear what caused Tanner to fall out of her kayak.
Oltmanns said there's no indication she was intoxicated, but officials
have ordered toxicology tests anyway. The results are expected in three to
four weeks.
The wounds on Tanner's head and thigh were caused after she died,
Oltmanns said.
Tanner, a former competitive paddler with the Senobe Aquatic Club at
Dartmouth's Lake Banook, moved to Germany to work as an au pair.
Oltmanns said Tanner's parents have returned to Hamm to retrieve her
body.
March 22, 06 follow up. Autopsy results on the german cold
shock paddler death.
Young paddler likely died of cardiac arrest
By STEVE BRUCE Staff Reportera nd MARTIN KUHNA
The Chronicale Herald, Halifax, NS 3/22/2006
The body of a 20-year-old Dartmouth woman who went missing last month
while kayaking on a canal in Hamm, Germany, was recovered Wednesday.
Preliminary autopsy results revealed that Tiffany Tanner died of cardiac
arrest within seconds of falling out of her boat into the cold water, a
German official said. Foul play has been ruled out.
A canal worker spotted Tiffany’s body floating in a basin along the Datteln-Hamm
canal at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday (2:30 a.m. AST).
Tiffany’s parents were contacted by phone at their Dartmouth home before
dawn and relayed the unfortunate news to relatives.
"It was the phone call you didn’t want to get," said Darrell Fraser,
Tiffany’s uncle, who found out at about 5 a.m.
"The family is together, and they have their moments, for sure. There’s some
comfort in the fact they found her, but it’s now the process of bringing her
home."
Tiffany, an experienced kayaker who had been working as an au pair in
Germany since July, vanished Feb. 19 while paddling on the calm waters of
the canal. Three friends who were in a boat about 100 metres ahead of her
looked back and saw her kayak overturned under a bridge but no sign of her.
A search of the canal was immediately launched, using boats, divers, sonar
equipment and tracking dogs. Tiffany’s mother, Lisa Tanner, and stepfather,
Kevin Bonang, flew to Germany to help in the search.
Ms. Tanner returned home a week later to be with her two younger children,
and Mr. Bonang flew back to Canada last weekend after the full-scale search
was called off.
The body was found Wednesday about two kilometres from where Tiffany was
last seen and several hundred metres from an area sniffing dogs marked two
weeks ago.
The body was found dressed in the same clothes Tiffany was wearing when she
disappeared 17 days earlier, said Heiko Oltmanns, senior public prosecutor
in the neighbouring city of Dortmund. Wounds appear to have been inflicted
post-mortally, while the body was drifting in the water.
Mr. Oltmanns said the autopsy findings confirmed police’s opinion that the
death was accidental.
The autopsy found Tiffany died from reflexogenic cardiac arrest, which Mr.
Oltmanns said would have happened after the kayak tipped over and she hit
the 7 C water.
By all accounts, he said, Tiffany would have lost consciousness and died
instantaneously, without any excruciating struggle for air and without any
noise that might have alarmed the other paddlers.
The prosecutor said there was no reason to question the autopsy results, but
he requested additional tests in view of the peculiar circumstances of an
experienced kayaker dying in calm water.
"I ordered some more tests to be carried out, just to make sure everything
possible is done," Mr. Oltmanns said.
The tests will take several days.
Shortly after the body had been recovered and identified as Tiffany’s,
police went to inform the German couple for whom she worked as a
housekeeper. With police present, Walter and Katrin Burger-Kley called
Canada and conveyed the news to Tiffany’s parents.
Mr. Fraser said the discovery of Tiffany’s body was a "step toward closure"
for the family, but a lot of questions remain unanswered.
"We’re still not sure what . . . took her out of her boat, if there’s a way
to find out," he said. "Will they find out? I don’t know."
There had been speculation someone on shore might have had something to do
with the young woman’s disappearance after witnesses claimed to have seen
someone on the bridge above the canal, but police discounted the theory.
"We feared she was dead since the first day that she went missing," said
Klaus Fleige of Hamm police.
Tiffany’s parents were making plans to travel to Hamm to bring their
daughter home. Mr. Fraser said his niece would have turned 21 in May.
"She was a wonderful girl," he said. "She loved to paddle, she loved to have
fun, she loved horses."
Tiffany’s family paddles at the Senobe Aquatic Club on Lake Banook in
Dartmouth and also is well-known in hockey circles.
Friends set up a trust fund at the Scotiabank branch on Wyse Road in
Dartmouth and organized an online auction and dance, raising thousands of
dollars to help the famly.
Students observed a moment of silence Wednesday at Dartmouth High, from
which Tiffany graduated in 2003.
With The Canadian Press
( sbruce@herald.ca)
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