Daredevils of Niagara Falls

Daredevils can be best summarized as persons who wish to take conscious risks with their lives with the emphasis on survival. However, some risks are so great that the chances of survival based upon a balance of probabilities become so little that they become suicidal in nature. It may be a thin line of definition but a line none the less. Now days, the art of being a daredevil has become so sophisticated that chances of survival are almost predictable.
SOME SURVIVED......and......SOME DIED


SCHOONER "MICHIGAN" - 1827 (with animals aboards)
SAM PATCH - 1829 (Survived)
E. JACKSON - 1856 (Survived)
THE GREAT BLONDIN - AKA: Jean Francois Gravelot - 1859 (Survived)
SETH FORD - 1859 (Survived)
SIGNOR GUILLERMO ANTONIO FARINI - "THE GREAT FARINI" - aka: WILLIAM LEONARD HUNT - 1860 (Survived)
CAPTAIN JOEL ROBINSON - 1861 (Survived)
HARRY LESLIE - 1865 (Survived)
J.F. "PROFESSOR" JENKINS - 1869 (Survived)
HENRY BELLINI - 1873 (Survived)
CAPTAIN J. D. RHODES - 1878 (Survived)
STEPHEN PEER - 1887 (Died)
MARIA SPELTERINI - 1876 (Survived)
DAVID MCDOWELL - 1881 (Survived)
FRANK M. BROWN - 1882 (Survived)
CLIFFORD CALVERLY - 1887 & 1890 (Survived)
D.H. MACDONALD - 1887 & 1890 (Survived)
CHARLES CROMWELL - 1887 & 1890 (Survived)
WALTER G. CAMPBELL - 1889 (Survived)
SAMUEL J. DIXON - 1890 (Survived)
JAMES E. HARDY -1896 (Survived)
OLIVER HILTON - 1897 (Survived)
CAPTAIN MATTHEW WEBB - 1883 (Died)
CARLISLE GRAHAM - 1886 (Survived)
GEORGE POTTS and WILLIAM HAZLETT - 1886 (Survived)
JAMES SCOTT - 1886 (Died)
WILLIAM KENDALL - 1886 (Survived)
LAWRENCE DONOVAN - 1886 (Survived)
ALPHONSE "PROFESSOR" KING - 1886 & 1887 (Survived)
CHARLES A. PERCY - 1887 & 1888 (Survived)
ROBERT FLACK - 1888 (Died)
I.H. ASHLEY - 1890 (Survived)
PETER "BOWSER" NISSEN - 1900 & 1901 (Survived)
CAPTAIN BILLY JOHNSON - 1901 (Survived)
JOE CHAMBERS - 1901 (Survived)
MARTHA WAGENFURHER - 1901 (Survived)
MAUD WILLARD - 1901 (Died)
ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR - 1901 (Survived)
CAPTAIN KLAUS LARSEN - 1910 (Survived)
LINCOLN BEACHY - 1911 (Survived)
BOBBY LEACH - 1910 & 1911 (Survived)
OSCAR WILLIAMS - 1911 (Survived)
PETER LANGAARD -1911 (Survived)
CHARLES STEPHENS - 1920 (Died)
VINCENT TAYLOR - 1927 (Survived)
JEAN LUSSIER - 1928 (Survived)
GEORGE L. STRATHAKIS - 1930 (Died)
WILLIAM "RED" HILL Sr. - 1930 (Survived)
WILLIAM "RED" HILL Jr. - 1945 (Died)
MAJOR LLOYD HILL - 1949 (Survived)
TED MERCIER, JOSEPH HAWRYLUK, GRAHAM SCOTT - 1954 (Survived)
CLAUS R. KIRKOFF - 1957 (Survived)
ROGER WOODWARD - 1960 (Survived)
NATHAN T. BOYA - aka: WILLIAM A. FITZGERALD - 1961 (Survived)
RAYMOND WEAVER - 1961 (Survived)
KARL HEINZ KOCH - 1964 (Survived)
BRUCE CURTIS, RONALD HESS - 1969 (Survived)
JOHN KAZIAN - 1971 (Survived)
NIAGARA WHITE WATER RAFT COMPANY - 1972 (commercial business)
HENRI JULIEN RECHATIN - 1974 & 1975 (Survived)
EDWARD A. FRIEDLAND - 1974 (Survived)
JIM SARTEN - 1975 (Survived)
NIAGARA GORGE RIVER TRIPS INCORPORATED - 1975 (3 Died)
MR. X - aka: James Randi - 1975 (Survived)
KENNETH W. LAGERGREN - 1977 (Survived)
KENNETH W. LAGERGREN, CHRIS SPELIUS, DON WHEEDON, CARRIE ASHTON - 1981 (Survived)
KAREL SOUCEK - 1977 & 1984 (Survived)
STEVEN TROTTER - 1985 (Survived)
STEVEN TROTTER, LORI MARTIN - 1995 (Survived)
PHILLIPE PETIT - 1986
JOHN DAVID MUNDAY - 1985 & 1993 (Survived)
PETER DeBERNARDI, JEFFREY PETKOVICH - 1989 (Survived)
JESSIE W. SHARP - 1990 (Died)
ROBERT OVERACKER -1995 (Died)
KIRK JONES - 2003 (Survived)


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