The author was travelling up a river that had a very powerful current. He used a rope to pull his canoe through the water as he climbed along the shore. But there are rapids, eddies and hidden rocks just beneath the water line. If you're not a hundred per cent correct, your canoe can easily flip over. 'If i was one second sooner, my canoe was gone,' says Mr Johnson.

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