Man dies on Skull Rapid, Westwater

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Ohio man killed after raft overturns in Utah

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MOAB, Utah (AP) -- Police say an Ohio man has been killed after his raft overturned in the Colorado River in southeast Utah.

The Grand County sheriff's office says 57-year-old Dennis L. Young, of Columbus, Ohio, was one of three people in the raft on Monday when it flipped over at Skull Rapids in Westwater Canyon.

The sheriff's office says the other two people in the raft got out of the water and could not resuscitate Young, The Salt Lake Tribune reported on its Web site Tuesday.

They continued to a takeout and then called law enforcement.

[Alex]

I was there on Saturday and man Skull was raging! It was a fairly easy sneak on the left, but still if you flipped near Skull you'd be screwed. Sad, very sad to hear that.

I told my crew right before Skull, you paddle like there is no tomorrow, or we are all f*cked, they didn't take me seriously until we went into the crest of the rapid and saw the thunderous rapid. My paddlers worked their little butts off to pull the hell away from it.

RIP Dennis