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Office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, they're the size of a volkswagen. that's usually what people smash into. we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided to try rafting for the first time. rafts, and two guides, they head for the river. when they get there, mike wonders if they have made a mistake. >> the riv...

Rafts and two guides, they head for the river. when they get there, mike wonders if they have made a mistake. >> the river was flowing at a high rate of speed. it was at a very high level but i didn't really know what to compare it with. >> despite the boiling current, the group launches their boats. within moments, everything goes wrong. >> we saw that tree coming right in front of us and then we hit it head-on. there was nothing that could be done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i don't remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on ...

This area. >> yeah. >> jose -- >> one older gentleman -- >> go ahead, krystal. have you taken this route before? have you taken this train before? because that's what a lot of people are thinking about that experience of going on a normal route and everything goes wrong. >> no i was just scared and surprised, never seen this this is my first time seeing this. >> reporter: this is a unique situation for people who aren't extremely old. there's one man around here telling us his mother who is 96 yeerds old was here and saw the crash that happened in this area in 1943 and took a lot of people wit...

>> california's kearn river is a scenic, natural wonder and a popular play ground. >> one of the steepest rivers in the united states and it flows really fast. >> but the river has a dark side as well. one that keeps the rescue team at the kearn county sheriff's office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, they're the size of a volkswagen. that's usually what people smash into. we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickn...

The united states and it flows really fast. >> but the river has a dark side as well. one that keeps the rescue team at the kearn county sheriff's office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, they're the size of a volkswagen. that's usually what people smash into. we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided to try ra...