Danen's Award NightThree Georgia boy scouts, who acted heroically to save another teenager swallowed up in an undertow caused by post-storm flooding, have been selected to receive the Boy Scouts of America’s extreme risk heroism award the Honor Medal With Crossed Palms, Ranked higher than an Eagle.
I was the photographer for the event and my friend Melanie was my assistant. It was a lot of fun and gave me some great experience!
With my Eagle Scout!! :)
Two years ago on July 6, 2005, the three 17-year-old boys, Danen’s father Brad, and his visiting cousin were at a heavily flooded park near Peachtree City’s government offices. They had just done a good deed by helping a man get his stuck golf cart out of the rising swells. Shortly thereafter, Danen’s cousin ventured into what seemed to be still waters near a flooded road and was immediately sucked under by an unseen rip current.
Thinking that the cousin was being pinned by a possible grate, the three boys waded in to feel around for the missing boy with their feet. The cousin had actually been sucked through a 40-foot-long culvert located five-feet below the road, which wasn’t seen in the high waters. He was swept safely under the road to a pond on the other side of the culvert. Danen was next to be caught under the ferocious current, followed by Brock whose legs caught on the four-foot wide culvert. Brett, who used a rope nearby to pull out Brock, still bares the rope burns on his palms from the incident.
Searching frantically for his son, Brad was next to be sucked under water but managed to make it through the culvert to the other side. Danen’s body was not found until the next day in the stream that fed into Lake Peachtree, caught in a group of branches that prevented the body from being swept out to the lake. It was believed that Danen hit his head on a large damaged piece of the culvert – knocking him out and causing him to drown.
I was the photographer for the event and my friend Melanie was my assistant. It was a lot of fun and gave me some great experience!
With my Eagle Scout!! :)Two years ago on July 6, 2005, the three 17-year-old boys, Danen’s father Brad, and his visiting cousin were at a heavily flooded park near Peachtree City’s government offices. They had just done a good deed by helping a man get his stuck golf cart out of the rising swells. Shortly thereafter, Danen’s cousin ventured into what seemed to be still waters near a flooded road and was immediately sucked under by an unseen rip current.
Thinking that the cousin was being pinned by a possible grate, the three boys waded in to feel around for the missing boy with their feet. The cousin had actually been sucked through a 40-foot-long culvert located five-feet below the road, which wasn’t seen in the high waters. He was swept safely under the road to a pond on the other side of the culvert. Danen was next to be caught under the ferocious current, followed by Brock whose legs caught on the four-foot wide culvert. Brett, who used a rope nearby to pull out Brock, still bares the rope burns on his palms from the incident.
Searching frantically for his son, Brad was next to be sucked under water but managed to make it through the culvert to the other side. Danen’s body was not found until the next day in the stream that fed into Lake Peachtree, caught in a group of branches that prevented the body from being swept out to the lake. It was believed that Danen hit his head on a large damaged piece of the culvert – knocking him out and causing him to drown.
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