[adsman]

Rafting a river in near flood conditions, one of the guides stuffed his line on the hardest rapid where I was covering and lost three customers, one of which went swimming into the biggest sieve on the river, (a sieve is more or less a point where water flows under some rocks. You go under the rocks, the water comes out but you don't. This sieve you could have fit a bus under.) Two of the customers get swept around it but this one chick is going right for the bastard. I'm standing on the shore with a rope in my hand, she's 5 meters away, I throw and I literally hit her in the head, she flails and misses the rope completely and is taken under by a current. She resurfaces just in front of the sieve and then in she goes. Except she's not in. I can just see the yellow of her lifejacket sticking out of the sieve and without even thinking I'm diving in the river and swimming straight for her. At the last moment I grab her lifejacket and throw my body to the left, praying like hell that I wouldn't go in. I don't but I'm left hanging onto her jacket as she's still in the entrance to the sieve. Slowly with the force of water helping me, I manage to pull her out. We're swept down another 100 meters of swollen river before I can get us both to the shore. I start getting her to breathe again and then the other guides arrive and take over.

And then my legs start shaking. Really shaking.