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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
As far as I know they did make specifically for white water users with the cheat on the south side for those to get around. That said though it is still 100% safer than the previous weir as this setup will not hold a person in the feature and will instead push any swimmers straight through. I think a helmet and life jacket are a necessity for the rapid though.
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I think this is a key point. If you are wearing a life jacket you shouldn't drown going through Harvey passage. The waterway is designed to push you through.
If you notice in the article he succumbed to his injuries after getting rescued from the water.
I think overall they may have made it a more dangerous situation as the average person may think it is a recreation area like a pool. So while the weir had a 100% chance of death it had very few people going over. here you might have a 1% chance of death with 100 times the traffic of inexperienced users.
Do they still have the rope going accross to stop people from going to close to the rapids or is it all wide open now? If its all wide open then you will probably have more incidents as people who are just floating down the river won't be forced off the river.
I still think this was a good plan by the city but maybe they did a too good of job selling it as making the weir safe.