DAILY SUNS STAFF azdailysun.com | Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:00 am
A rapid, famed for its tenacity for stranding Grand Canyon rafters, caught hold of another two boats this past weekend, requiring passengers to evacuate, and help from helicopters and other boats.

A motorized Western River Expeditions boating trip was hung up in the "rock garden" at Crystal Rapid in the Grand Canyon on Friday, prompting the National Park Service to fly in fast boats by helicopter to rescue 16 passengers and crew and take them to shore on Friday evening, according to the National Park Service.

This is an area of the rapid where other boats have also run aground in past years, nearly 100 miles downstream from where boaters launch at Lees Ferry.

Another group, an oar-powered raft by Outdoors Unlimited, ran into the same area as the Western boat was being retrieved and also became stuck.

It took until Monday for Park Service rangers to free the first boat; the second lost some of its gear but was freed on Sunday.

No one was injured, according to the National Park Service.

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