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Article sais it is deep and there are tunnels also. It sucks you down and you are lost in a tunnel and die.

How exactly do you plan to survive when falling off the kayak?

There is literally somebody falling out of the kayak in the video I linked, around the 3:30 mark. He's swimming with a life vest on.

And he was pulled out of the water by two other persons using a paddle. Before that he was stuck upside down under the kayak for a solid 10 seconds before another person grabbed the kayak. There was no indication that they could've uprighted the kayak under their own power (we can only speculate). The person didn't look like a happy camper afterwards.

10 seconds isn't long at all, and it doesn't look like he was stuck (probably just trying to roll before committing to the wet exit). He walks away under his own power in the uncut version. I've seen footage of far, far closer calls.

You'd hope to not fall out of the kayak, but stay in it (with the skirt keeping most water out of the body of it), and do an Eskimo roll. The kayak, being very buoyant with all that air inside, would be unlikely to be sucked under. If you can't do an Eskimo roll, you would drown (presuming the whitewater traps you in the one spot rather than pushing you downstream)

You lit just came up with the invention of the scuba-kayak..

Call it the "sub-marine" or something such

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