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BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (WALB) - The identity of a man who jumped off a Bainbridge bridge and later drowned has been released. They believe it to be the same man seen jumping off a bridge into the Flint River in a Facebook Live video.
Crews found the body of Luther Johnson of Bainbridge around 9:54 a.m. on Wednesday in the same area he jumped near Cheney Griffin Park.
Bainbridge Public Safety is investigating the incident and the video that was taken.
In the video, a man is overheard narrating another man's walk on a train trestle and then. His jump from the bridge.
Over 100,000 people watched the video, which shows the man swimming in the middle of the Flint River before he then disappears. The video has since been removed from Facebook.
Search efforts for the man began Tuesday night around 8 p.m. but ended unsuccessfully a little after midnight on Wednesday. By Wednesday morning, rescue crews discovered the man's body 30 feet from where he jumped in. Decatur County fire Chief Charlie McCann believes if social media hadn't been involved, the man might still be alive.
“When the individual that was filming it, when he seen he jumped in the water if he'd called us, or called 911, that had jumped in the river or whatever, he might still be with us today,” McCann said.
In these types of incidents, McCann says a lot of people don't realize the dangers behind jumping from high rises into water.
“It's like hitting a brick wall depending on how you hit, you're going to cause some bodily injuries and that's going to make it even worse if you plan on just jumping and swimming out,” McCann said.
In this incident, McCann says he believes the drowning was caused by the man being tired of swimming.
“It's just sad the way things happened and it hurt me as well as the community,” a local resident told WALB.
Law enforcement tells WALB they are encouraging residents to avoid incidents like this because they can turn deadly.
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Muzaffarnagar: In an adventure gone horribly wrong, 18-year-old Raaz Qureshi hit a rock while he plunged headlong into a canal as his friends recorded the moments for a TitTok video. He died instantly.
In the video Qureshi is seen hitting a hard object as he plunges into the water and is knocked unconscious due to fatal wounds on his head.
According to sources, Qureshi, a resident of Meerapur in Muzaffarnagar, and his three friends went to the Ganga canal on February 28 where he jumped into canal but could not be able to move his body after he hit the rock. He went missing in deep water and his body was recovered two hours later.
According to sources, Qureshi had an account on TikTok where he frequently uploaded videos of various adventures.
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man disappeared in the Ongudaysky district of Gorny Altai. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Altai, presumably, a 49-year-old resident of the Choi district drowned.
- According to eyewitnesses, the man tried to swim across the river, but did not swim to the middle, he was carried downstream. Search and rescue operations were carried out by firefighters from the Ongudai fire and rescue unit No. 8 in the amount of 5 people and 1 piece of equipment, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 2 people, 1 piece of equipment, - said the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Gorny Altai.
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This is the shocking moment a tourist was swept to his death by a huge wave as he posed for photos with two friends in India.
Sasikumar Vasan, 33, died in the accident in Goa and two other tourists barely escaped with their lives.
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This has been posted here in the past, but its good and maybe there's a few who haven't seen it yet.
The Buffalo Police Department Underwater Rescue and Recovery Team pulled two bodies from the Niagara River at the Foot of Ferry Monday afternoon.
Crews pulled 29-year-old Mario Guthrie and 46-year-old Scott Vater, both of Buffalo, from the river.
In a news conference, police said the two men entered the water near a circular current of water.
Buffalo Police Dept. Captain Jeff Rinaldo said one of the men was trying to recover some driftwood and began to struggle, and the other man tried to help
An eyewitness told News 4, the one man told her he collected driftwood to make furniture. He was getting read to jump in to retrieve a piece floating in the river when another man offered to jump in for him.
“He jumped in and it was clear he wasn't a strong swimmer,” said witness, Christina Williams.
Williams says the man in the water had a rope tied to his wrist while the other man held the other end at shore. At one point the short rope wasn't enough so the man released it so he could grab the driftwood. The other man, at shore, jumped in to save him, but witnesses say they struggled to stay above water.
“It was only a couple of seconds before they both just sunk like rocks. There was nothing we could've done, I mean my mom was screaming at me not to jump in, I almost went in, I mean they would've sunk me like a stone,” said Williams.
Within minutes Williams says the Buffalo Underwater Rescue and Recovery Team were on the scene. Crews searched a little over an hour after the two men went under.
The recovery comes less than a year after Buffalo Police Lt. Craig Lehner died in a training accident in the same spot of the Niagara River.
Captain Jeff Rinaldo with Buffalo Police told reporters during a news conference Monday that swift water is very dangerous, unsupervised and even experienced divers such as Lt. Lehner can die in these conditions.
“There's different currents that flow especially when you get into eddy currents that will pull you towards the wall and then suck you out into the river as well as pull you down, it's not safe under any type of circumstance,” said Capt. Rinaldo.
Rinaldo stressed the importance of not jumping in after anyone in dangerous waters. He says to try to find a stick for them to grab onto and call for help.
Officials say the first instinct in swift water is to try to drown the person helping you, but the chance of both surviving are slim.
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Their deaths were slow and torturous. And most importantly she jumped into hazardous conditions without realizing there was nothing to pull yourself out of the violent sea, nothing but wet rocks and the water, the sea is literally folding over itself causing a suction like effect, constantly pulling their body under. This is one miserable way to die.
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UDUPI: Search operations are underway for a youth from Bhadravathi in Shivamogga, who is reported missing after a fall from a rock during his visit to Arasinagundi Falls in Kollur on Sunday.
According to the police Sharath, 23, slipped and fell from a rock while observing the spectacular Arasinagundi waterfall. He was allegedly carried away by the currents of the Sowparnika River and is reported missing.
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Srinagar, May 22: A couple from Gujarat died in a rafting boat accident at Pahalgam in Anantnag district today.
An official said that due to high speed winds, a rafting boat capsized in river Lidder.
He said the dead bodies of a Gujarat couple were retrieved by rescue operation teams while a lady from Mumbai was rescued whose condition is stated to be critical.
The deceased couple has been identified as Patel Sharmilaben and her husband Patel Bhikhabhai Ambalal, resident of Saijapurbogha, Ahmedabad Gujarat.
The Mumbai tourist whose condition is serious and undergoing treatment at GMC Anantnag has been identified as Muskan Khan wife of Parveen Sheikh.
Police have taken cognizance of the incident and registered a case under relevant sections of law.
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This is a video of a Chinese boy drowning in a river. Adults and children are playing in the river, but one child is obviously very strange The boy initially struggled to move underwater, but gradually stopped moving and drowned
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Some time in 2013 a couple in Yemen decided to celebrate their marriage with a swim in a lake, despite the fact that neither of them know how to swim. After setting up a camera to film what should've been an enjoyable time, would end up capturing their deaths. Around 3:28 the husband slides down a steep dropoff in the lake and starts drowning, he attempts to save himself by grabbing his wife for support, only to cause her to drown as well.
Sorry about the low quality.
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June 12, 2023, 15:34 — Sibmedia
Last Saturday, a tragedy occurred on Lake Lebyazhye in the Shegarsky District of Tomsk: a 21-year-old boy drowned. On Monday, footage shot by a friend of the deceased appeared on the network - on them a young man enters the water, but does not emerge back.
“Brother, the [awesome] vidos will… Dive in, bro!” - the operator points out.
The footage shows how the guy gradually enters the reservoir to an ever greater depth. At one point, he hides with his head under water - only a hand is shown on the surface, which Tomsk is waving, showing that something is going wrong.
An eyewitness to the tragedy began to call for help: “He is drowning, he is drowning! He waved his hand! the man exclaims in panic.
When asked why he was inactive, the operator explained that he could not swim.
As previously reported, divers examined 20 square meters of water and, despite the fact that the work was complicated by dense vegetation at the bottom, they found the body of a guy.
thanks to @Slavo for those infos
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This is one of my absolute favorite 911 calls. The dispatcher shows so little regard for human life and at one point mocks her, it's just absolutely crazy.
Deborah Stevens had been delivering newspapers when she was caught in a dark area in between two apartment complex buildings and swept out to the river that was just on the other side. The dispatcher continuously lectured her how dare she be driving in water as Deborah pleaded for her life.
The water had moved so quickly it was already up to her windows and she was unable to open the doors because of the pressure.
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This is just sad 
idk what the backstory is, (!Mods feel free to move this if it's in the Wong flair please!)
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