LEWISTON, Maine - A Massachusetts man died last Saturday while on a commercial rafting trip on the Dead River.
Michael Arena, 52, was chaperoning a Boy Scout trip when he fell out of a raft carrying seven people, including his son. Corporal John MacDonald, of the Maine Warden Service, says the cause of death has yet to be determined.
"Fatal accidents related to rafting is very, very rare," MacDonald says. "We haven't had one in several years."
MacDonald says nearly 70,000 people a year take commercial rafting trips on Maine's rivers every year. The operator of the rafting trip with the Boy Scout group was North Country Rivers.
