"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message
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He did not even appear to be wearing a PFD. This is really bad news
for shareholders of Extrasport and Lotus Designs. :-(


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...falls_survivor

There's even a picture of him wearing jeans and a maroon shirt
after self-rescuing and pulling himself out of the water onto shore.
Maybe the black thing is a flotation device? Doesn't look like it.


Hmmm, 10 out of 15 people who have attempted Niagara have made it
sucessfully. That's a lot more than I would have suspected. I guess
'unrunnable' is a bit overzealous of a rating, eh? Imagine if more of the
attempts weren't just people in a barrel, but expert river runners who could
read a good line, what the success stats would be?

I wouldn't be suprised if it were possible to create some sort of craft that
would make taking people over the falls (not helterskelter, but with a
definate line in mind, and carefully judged speed) a commercial possiblity.
Maybe even in our lifetimes; I suspect that its more do-able than we think.

--riverman