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Post Icon Posted: June 17 2006,9:46 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Boy, 10, dies in Bridgewater Channel; Body of missing boater found


BY DAVID BELL
Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:11 PM MDT



At approximately 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Lake Havasu City Police rescue divers searching the Bridgewater Channel recovered the body of Austin Tyler Patin, 10, of Mission Hills, Calif. Cause of death is pending investigation.

The boy was reported missing just after 3 p.m., last seen in the water near his family's boat beach on the mainland side of the south Channel near the inlet of Thompson Bay.

It's the fifth death on Lake Havasu this year, the sixth on the Colorado River. In February a 67-year old California woman died when her watercraft crashed into the lake's shoreline, in April a 14-year old Washington boy died in a two-boat collision near Site Six and during Memorial Day weekend a 17-year old girl died on the river near Circle Beach when she reportedly turned her personal watercraft in front of an oncoming boat.

The body of David Ramsey, 54, of Riverside, Calif. was recovered Saturday. He went missing following the collision of two boats on June 3 near Jopps Harbor Cove. And last weekend 13-year-old Juan Cortez drowned in the designated swimming area of London Bridge Beach Park. Investigations in the circumstances surrounding both Ramsey's and Cortez's death are ongoing.


For more information, see Sunday's print edition of Today's News-Herald.

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Post Icon Posted: June 17 2006,9:50 pm Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That really sucks. :(





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Post Icon Posted: June 17 2006,9:58 pm Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
2 kids die in two consecutive weeks....WTF is going on down there.... :stupid  :banghead
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Post Icon Posted: June 17 2006,10:34 pm Post # 4 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
What I find odd is the age. You may typically expect it to happen to a kid that is very young but by 10 to 13 the kids are generally very good swimmers.

I wonder if the kids are from non-boating families and are down there in the park with their families.

That being said because most boating families generally have a much healthier respect for the water and also train their kids to swim at an early age and keep a closer eye on them.

Edited by H20Advantage on June 17 2006,10:34 pm

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Post Icon Posted: June 17 2006,11:46 pm Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
This is all very sad indeed. :(
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Post Icon Posted: June 18 2006,8:08 am Post # 6 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
:(  :cry  :(

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Post Icon Posted: June 18 2006,12:40 pm Post # 7 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Very sad indeed.

I'm afraid it's going to get worse based on what I saw out there this weekend. :banghead

I couldn't believe all the lunatics towing tubes in very congested areas of the river at ridiculous speeds and  blindly cuting across river and changing directions with no regard for other boat traffic.! :angry

I didn't see one cop on the water all day saturday and I was out there from 5:45 am until about 6. :confused

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Post Icon Posted: June 18 2006,12:52 pm Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (GlassMan @ June 18 2006,12:40 pm)
I was out there from 5:45 am until about 6. :confused

Can't see much in 15 min.s , can you?? :stupid  :laugh  :D

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Post Icon Posted: June 18 2006,1:03 pm Post # 9 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Yeah....but it felt like ALL day!

Damn it was hot out there... :flamed

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Post Icon Posted: June 18 2006,1:11 pm Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
It sucks to hear about the Kids :cry

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