The Toronto region has a number of low head dams that have in my memory claimed at least seven people and one dog. A number of drownings were of people who jump

The Toronto region has a number of low head dams that have in my memory claimed at least seven people and one dog. A number of drownings were of people who jumped in to save their dog. Usually the dog got out on its own. Paddlers are generally aware, but one fatality was a paddler unfamiliar with the river. His daughter survived because she was in the front of the canoe and likely entered the water downstream of the peak of the boil. If caught in a hydraulic, your best chance of survival is to immediately dive for the bottom where the current runs downstream. Good Luck! After a number of deaths, one dam was dynamited and others have been filled in downstream.