{"id":824571,"date":"2026-07-25T04:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:54:29","slug":"paddleboarder-in-critical-condition-after-slamming-into-calgary-river-bridge-abutment-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824571\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddleboarder in critical condition after slamming into Calgary river bridge abutment | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784932933_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bow River flows through the downtown as warm fall weather continues in Calgary on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 24, 2026 | 2:10 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 Officials in Calgary say a man is in critical condition after he was paddleboarding down a river with his son and hit a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Thursday around 1 p.m. on the Bow River in the city\u2019s northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews found the man, who was wearing a life jacket, lying face down in the water while attached to the paddleboard by an ankle strap.<\/p>\n<p>They worked to revive him before he was taken to hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bow River flows through the downtown as warm fall weather continues in Calgary on Wednesday, Sept. 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[879,49,2798,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-824571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}