River Drowning · July 12, 2013
Accident Report for Grave Creek to Foster Bar
Rogue River · Grave Creek to Foster Bar · Class III to IV
Accident Details
- Number of people injured
- —
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Number of people involved (or in party)
- —
- Accident date
- July 12, 2013
- Accident type
- River Drowning
- Coordinates
- 42.70368725, -123.91617358
- Was search and rescue called or needed?
- Yes
- Did this accident involve a commercial outfitter or guide?
- No
- Water flow at the time of the accident
- 1,600 CFS/FT
Accident Description
SOURCE - Eugene Register
S. Carolina man dies rafting on Rogue
GOLD BEACH — A South Carolina man died after falling into the Rogue River when his raft got stuck in a rapid.
Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said Monday that he was waiting for the body to be examined by the medical examiner to know whether the man drowned or died of a medical issue.
Steven D. Hoyer, 57 of Spartanburg, S.C., died Friday at Blossom Bar, a Class IV rapid in the wild section of the popular whitewater river.
Bishop said Hoyer was wearing a life jacket and a helmet as he tried to free his raft from a line of rocks known as the Picket Fence.
He initially told others along the river he was fine, but was not conscious when people got to him at the bottom of the rapid.