Paul Rodriguez Jr continues to be lacking after police confirmed he died after his kayak overturned in a glacial lake (Image: Joanna Pilapil/AP)
A kayaker by chance filmed his personal demise with a GoPro digital camera hooked up to his helmet.
Paul Jose Rodriguez Jr tragically died when his kayak overturned in sturdy currents whereas he was paddling on a glacial lake in southern Alaska, USA.
The whole incident was inadvertently captured on video, based on police, who reviewed the footage after the digital camera was found washed up on the shore by a passerby.
Alaska State Troopers launched an enormous search and rescue operation after an unattended kayak was noticed floating on the lake close to the town of Juneau on Monday.
Helicopters and specifically skilled canine scoured the realm across the 200-ft deep Mendenhall Lake, the place the water temperature is simply 10C presently of yr.
However regardless of their efforts, Mr Rodriguez Jr’s physique nonetheless hasn’t been discovered, experiences Sky Information.
The 43-year-old was final seen by his roommate on July 10 and set out onto the water on July 11 after posting an image on social media of his kayak on a seashore close to Nugget Falls.
Mr Rodriguez, 43, by chance filmed his personal demise with the GoPro digital camera fitted to his helmet (Image: Fb)
A Juneau Police Division official mentioned: ‘A evaluate of the video decided Rodriguez had drowned on July 11 when his kayak overturned, and he went into the glacial water.
‘Groups will proceed to go looking the lake to get well the physique.’
On Tuesday, Tim DeSpain, a spokesperson for the Troopers, mentioned: ‘The recording continued exhibiting that the kayak overturned on account of a powerful present coming from the glacier.’
The drive additionally added: ‘It additionally confirmed he was not sporting a life jacket ‘or applicable protecting clothes for glacial water sports activities.’
His kayak had been discovered floating unattended on the lake (Image: Fb)
His household have been knowledgeable that he has been declared lifeless based mostly on the footage retrieved from his helmet-fitted GoPro digital camera.
The seek for the eager adventurer, who usually shared photos and movies of his kayaking and mountain climbing journeys, began on Sunday after the US Forest Service observed a car had been parked on the centre’s lot for 5 days.
It was later confirmed that the car belonged to Mr Rodriguez and that an empty kayak had been towed to shore by a member of the general public who then alerted the authorities.
Juneau law enforcement officials additionally mentioned US Forest Service staff instructed them that they had seen a person ‘believed to be related to the car, strolling in direction of the glacier sporting a t-shirt and carrying an ice axe and climbing helmet’.
Paul Rodriguez liked journey and usually shared photos of his hikes and kayaking journeys (Image: Fb)
An announcement mentioned: ‘The complainant reported towing the kayak to shore after discovering it unoccupied and nobody round it within the lake in misery.
‘AST took possession of the objects for safekeeping as there was no figuring out markings on the kayak.’
Investigators mentioned a dry bag was hooked up to kayak however there was nothing inside to determine the proprietor.
Paying tribute to his father, Mr Rodriguez’s teenage son Jaden mentioned he was ‘kindhearted’ and liked snowboarding, fishing, paddleboarding and being exterior.
His son Jaden described him as a ‘kindhearted, good individual’ (Image: Fb)
He mentioned on Wednesday: ‘He was individual.’
The footage of Mr Rodriguez drowning won’t be publicly launched and the seek for his physique is continuous.
Final week, a ‘hero’ dad died aged 30 after attempting to maintain his three-year-old son from drowning within the sea.
Elsewhere within the US, a dad drowned in Maine after attempting to avoid wasting his two daughters who had been swept into deep waters in a pond.
A dad who was fishing together with his son drowned in Pennsylvania after saving two youngsters from a lake earlier this month.
In the beginning of July, an inquest dominated that 4 younger boys died after falling by a frozen lake in an ‘terrible, tragic accident’ within the Midlands.
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