{"id":77418,"date":"2016-05-30T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=77418"},"modified":"2016-05-30T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:10:51","slug":"washington-man-survives-plunge-down-three-waterfalls-at-olympic-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/washington-man-survives-plunge-down-three-waterfalls-at-olympic-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Man Survives Plunge Down Three Waterfalls At Olympic National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) A 30-year-old Washington man is lucky to be alive after falling down three waterfalls.<\/p>\n
Josh Richert, aged 30, were celebrating their wedding anniversary with a stroll through National Park on May 20.<\/p>\n
He then walked out on some rocks in order to get better access to the flowing water, when he slipped and got caught in the current.<\/p>\n
‘I got really scared,’ he told KOMO. ‘I was like, oh boy, because I couldn’t get back. I looked at Katrin and said, “I don’t think I can get back.”<\/p>\n
The current swept Richert away and sent him plunging down three waterfalls on the Sul Doc River.<\/p>\n
Richert fell over 70 feet in over five minutes, he was then able to swim to shore and await help.<\/p>\n
A photographer recorded the fall and uploaded the footage.<\/p>\n
‘When I broke the surface, I took a breath and thought I finally made it,’ said Josh Richert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Don’t ever risk something so life threatening over something so small.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) A 30-year-old Washington man is lucky to be alive after falling down three waterfalls. Josh Richert, aged 30, were celebrating their wedding anniversary with a stroll through National Park on May 20. He then walked out on some rocks in order to get better access to the flowing water, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":77419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n