 you can still die but your chances are they're really low even if you go private but again you just have to go with somebody who knows what they're doing you need to scout the rapids you need to know what you're doing if you fall in you need to know what you're doing you know if they can't throw you a rope or anything you know you put your feet down go with the flow keep your head up hopefully you have a helmet on don't try and swim out until you get to a low spot and then scramble to the shore i mean i've been thrown out it's