Adventureland Raft In Fatal Accident Had Been Pulled From Service Earlier

(Des Moines, IA)  The Adventureland Raft involved in a fatal accident two weeks ago had reportedly been pulled from service earlier the same day.  The Des Moines Register reports it was one of several rafts that had been pulled because the bladders that kept them afloat had deflated.  An accident involving that raft cost 11-year-old Michael Jaramillo his life.  Records show the raft was repaired and put back into service about an hour and 45 minutes before the fatal accident.  An attorney for the amusement park, Guy Cook, says Adventureland wants to get to the bottom of what happened, but the problems that took the raft out of service wouldn’t explain why it capsized.  Cook says it almost 40 years of launching tens of thousands of the boat, not one had ever capsized before.