{"id":16500,"date":"2019-07-08T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58733"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:46:00","slug":"man-dies-in-rafting-mishap-near-dinosaur-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/man-dies-in-rafting-mishap-near-dinosaur-national-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in rafting mishap near Dinosaur National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Triplet Falls on the Green River in the Dinosaur National Monument.<\/strong>
National Park Service \/ Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

CRAIG \u2014 A body was recovered Saturday afternoon from the scene of a rafting accident in Triplet Falls on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument.<\/p>\n

Monument staff received notification via satellite text message at 12:40 p.m. Saturday that a boat flipped in the Green River at Triplet Falls, resulting in an unconscious and injured 47-year-old male, who was part of a commercial rafting trip that included family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rafter was underwater for about 10 minutes. CPR was performed for approximately 90 minutes,\u201d a news release from the National Park Service stated. \u201cClassic Air Medical arrived on the scene to assess the rafter, found him unresponsive and declared him deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was later transported by helicopter to the Ashley Regional Medical Center in Vernal, Utah. He has been identified as Anthony Vasi, 47, from Newport Beach, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational Park Service staff, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Moffat County Sheriff\u2019s Office were in the process of launching a rescue effort by raft from the Gates of Lodore when Classic Air Medical arrived at Triplet Falls and found the rafter deceased,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n

Triplet Falls has a Class III difficulty rating and is located along the Green River in a remote portion of Dinosaur National Monument about 12 river miles from the monument\u2019s northern boundary near Gates of Lodore.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe area is surrounded by steep canyon walls rising 1,200 feet and higher above the river,\u201d the release stated. \u201cThere is no cell service in that portion of the monument.\u201d<\/p>\n

River flow was approximately 2,350 cubic feet per second at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Triplet Falls on the Green River in the Dinosaur National Monument.National Park Service \/ Courtesy photo CRAIG \u2014 A body was recovered Saturday afternoon from the scene of a rafting accident in Triplet Falls on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. Monument staff received notification via satellite text message at 12:40 p.m. Saturday that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:06:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}