The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man
who died following a tubing accident on the Similkameen River on July
20, 2013.

He is Derek James Woodrow, aged 19, from Keremeos.

Mr. Woodrow was one of a group of six persons who were tubing on the
Similkameen River near Keremeos on the afternoon of July 20. In a patch
of rough water, Mr. Woodrow fell from his tube and was not able to
rescue himself. Help was immediately summoned. Search and rescue
personnel were able to recover Mr. Woodrow’s body from the river a short
distance downstream of where he had last been seen, but he was deceased
at the scene.

The BC Coroners Service and RCMP continue to investigate this death.