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The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been swept over the falls but only sixteen people have reportedly survived the feat. All instances of people having survived the ...
Kirk Raymond Jones (1962 or 1963 – c. April 19, 2017) was an American who became the first person to survive going over Horseshoe Falls, the largest waterfall of Niagara Falls, without safety equipment, in 2003. He then went over Niagara Falls again in 2017 with a plastic ball and died.
This category includes people who went over the falls, in at least one case, unintentionally. Pages in category "People who went over Niagara Falls" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Annie was born on October 24, 1838, in Auburn, New York. [2] She was one of eight children born to Merrick Edson (1804–1850) and Lucretia Waring; [3] her father owned a flour mill and died when she was 12 years old, leaving enough money to provide a comfortable living for the family.
Despite having been stopped by Niagara Parks police two days earlier, [2] on August 18, 1985, at 8:30 AM, Trotter's 11-man crew launched his barrel into the Niagara River rapids, a quarter-mile from the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Trotter went over the Falls and survived with minor scrapes.
The view of the Niagara Falls from New York on Oct. 29, 2019. AP. Tourists gather at Terrapin Point on Goat Island to view the falls on June 15, 2017. AFP via Getty Images.
In 2023, another mother jumped with her 5-year-old son into the Niagara Gorge, just down river from the falls. That mother died in the fall, but rescuers were able to save the boy.
Lussier moved to Akron, Ohio, to have a rubber company develop what he envisioned as the perfect design for a stunt over Niagara Falls – a rubber ball.The vessel measured 182 centimeters (approx. 6 feet) in diameter, and featured steel bands to maintain the overall structure as it would be subjected to the power of the falls.