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On Sunday, November 26, Sarah Cox, her husband Dick Knapp, and her friend Kathl Whitacre went kayaking on the Payette River in Idaho. They expected the trip to be a leisurely two hours. But as the trio neared an area known as the "Go Left Rapid," the raging river flipped over Sarah's kayak, pinning her against a rock.
"She was hanging onto the rock, couldn't get off, but she was able to breathe, just hanging there," Boise's Whitacre told KTVB News. "It is so fast and slippery, [Dick and I] couldn't do anything. She told me go get help, the last time when I paddled to her."
Dick continued trying to reach his wife. He was able to get close enough that he could see her mouth the words "I love you," but the current was too strong, and his efforts to reach her were futile. Sarah bolstered her spirits by singing a hymn she remembered from childhood--"This Is My Father's World."
An hour went by and Sarah Cox--and her husband--wondered how long she could survive in the water that was in the 40s without succumbing to hypothermia.
During that time, Whitacre, who was out of cellphone range, flagged down a female motorist who then rushed to town to call 911. As she was doing so, a man named Conrad Fourney, a veteran kayaker, was going into town to buy a Christmas-tree permit. When he entered the Banks Store & Cafe, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Daring rescue from Idaho River.