WEST FORKS, Maine — A Massachusetts man died while on a rafting trip in West Forks Plantation, a Maine Warden Service official said.
Michael Arena, 52, was on a commercial rafting trip with North Country Rivers when he fell out of the raft Saturday, Cpl. John MacDonald said.
Arena’s group was going through a series of Dead River rapids when he fell out. He was declared dead at the scene.
Arena had been chaperoning a group of four Boy Scouts, including his son. There were seven people in the raft — two chaperones, four teenage boys and one guide — MacDonald said.
The raft was being operated in accordance to state law. MacDonald said it has been several years since a rafting fatality has occurred in Maine.
The cause of death has not yet been determined and the incident remains under investigation.
