Once on board the boat, the 4 year old began looking for something to help Naya, and while he did find a rope, he was “too scared” to move it because there was a “big spider” on it.
“Something he’s said over and over is that he was trying to find a life raft, and there was a rope, but there was a big spider on the rope, and he was too scared to throw it,” Ryan explained.
“I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough,’” he went on. “That obviously still sticks out in his head because he feels like he could have saved her. I think she just got caught up in a brush — that or a weird undercurrent from the dam. It was just a freak occurrence.”
