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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.
Steven Trotter (November 13, 1960 – October 14, 2022) was an American daredevil who at age 24 became the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He was one of a few people to perform the stunt twice. He also performed other illegal stunts. [2] [3] He died unexpectedly in 2022. [1]
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.
Julio Cervantes was one of eight construction workers on the bridge when the Dali cargo ship’s lights flickered on and off and crashed into a support pillar, sending the bridge into the Patapsco ...