>>11051548Sure, it's dangerous when a drowning person is panicking, but that river still had a strong undercurrent that pulled the men down. People weren't supposed to go swimming in that spot. A policeman had previously died in the same area during a diving exercise because his safety cable broke and the current took him away.
>>11051647Their names were Mario Guthrie and Scott Vater, and this happened in Buffalo. They were friends and co-workers. The white guy collected driftwood and made furniture out of it. The black guy was trying to fetch him the big yellow log you can see in the top right corner at the end of the video. There's a slightly longer video available on Liveleak or somewhere.
