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He has said that his going over the falls was a suicide attempt rather than a stunt. [19] Jones made a fatal attempt at going over the falls on 19 April 2017. 10 March 2009: Unnamed man: Survival: Horseshoe Falls [56] An unnamed 30-year-old Canadian man survived a suicide attempt over the falls. [11]
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.
A rusting ship has been stuck on the rocks toward the edge of Niagara Falls after it broke free from a tugboat in 1918. Visitors to the famous waterfall may have caught a glimpse of it before.
Torrential rainfall unleashed extreme flooding in multiple provinces of China over the past weekend. Videos showed boats plunging over a waterfall, people clinging to trees, and rescuing others.
Bobby Leach and his barrel after his trip over Niagara Falls, 1911. Bobby Leach's grave, Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. Bobby Leach (born Lancaster, England; 1858 – April 26, 1926) was the second person and first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 — while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901.
Three years ago, he descended the 134-foot Salto del Maule waterfall in Chile, the second-highest waterfall descent in history and an experience he likened to “falling off the face of the earth.”
They go over a waterfall and survive, although their canoe is destroyed. Venturing into the woods with a compass, they find themselves at a pot farm , where rednecks Dennis and Elwood mistake them for thieves and start shooting at them.
In March 2011, Tyler was on his Huck Fest Tour, which is an annual tour that he and his friends go on looking for big waterfalls. On this trip, they found Abiqua Falls, a 95 ft. waterfall located in Oregon in which Tyler made a mistake and went into the water too flat, causing him to break the L1 vertebra in his back.