Ella Mills, a junior at Columbia, drowned on Sunday while kayaking with a group of two dozen members of the university's whitewater kayak club.
Washington-area whitewater kayakers lay flowers on the Potomac's Little Falls rapid near the rocks that entrapped visiting kayaker Ella Mills.Washington-area whitewater kayakers lay flowers on the Potomac's Little Falls rapid near the rocks that entrapped visiting kayaker Ella Mills.A student at Columbia University has died during a whitewater kayaking trip on the Potomac River along Washington, D.C.
"I saw all three of them flip one after the other. And with the speed of the current, they just didn't see it coming when they flipped," he said. "We think of it as fairly safe although not without hazards," said Washington-area kayak instructor, Ashley McEwan, who has guided many novice boaters down this stretch of the river.
Washington-area kayakers who paddle Little Falls nearly everyday have not seen the river this low in decades. The low water flow has surfaced rocks, jammed logs and other unknown hazards even experienced paddlers have never seen. Atwell and other boaters did what they could while the Montgomery County Potomac swift water rescue squad arrived at the scene. The MOCO Fire & Rescue issued a statement that Mills had"presumably drowned" by the time they got to her.
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