[Awclist] [Fwd: RRFW Riverwire - BODY FOUND BELOW RUBY RAPID]

[Thomas Robey]

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Subject: 	RRFW Riverwire - BODY FOUND BELOW RUBY RAPID
Date: 	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:41:34 -0600
From: 	Riverwire <riverwire at rrfw.org>
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Organization: 	River Runners for Wilderness
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*NPS Press Release: Female Body Found in the Colorado River*

Release date: 7-31-06

*Grand Canyon**, Ariz. – At approximately 6:00 p.m. last night a private 
river trip located a female body in the Colorado River at River Mile 104 
within Grand Canyon National Park just below Ruby Rapid. The body was 
located on the right side of the river in an eddy. The private trip used 
a satellite phone to call Grand Canyon Dispatch to report the body and 
their location.*

National Park Service Rangers began a recovery operation early this 
morning [7-31-06]. Once a reconnaissance flight was completed, a park 
helicopter inserted a recovery team along with a Zodiac boat to recover 
the body. With no helicopter landing zone on the right side of the 
river, park rangers transported the body across the river by boat where 
a National Park Service helicopter was brought in to transport the body 
to the South Rim Helibase. The body was then transferred to the Coconino 
County Medical Examiners Office and taken to Flagstaff, Ariz.

Park Rangers have been searching the Colorado River below Hermit Creek 
(River Mile 95) for Iryna Shylo, a Grand Canyon resident and Ukrainian 
citizen who was last seen by her hiking partner around 6:00 p.m. on 
Sunday, July 16. The body recovered today was located approximately nine 
miles downriver from where Ms. Shylo was last seen and where tennis 
shoes matching the type she was wearing were located over a week ago. 
Positive identification will be made by the Coconino County Medical 
Examiner.

Ms. Shylo and a hiking partner had hiked down the Hermit Trail to the 
Colorado River on Sunday, July 16 and had planned on spending the night 
in the canyon before hiking out the next day. Her hiking partner 
reported her missing after she failed to return from a hike downriver.

As with any fatality or major incident, an investigation is being 
conducted by the National Park Service.

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