Or you might call this another Darwin that got away. Emergency responders were called to the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara after someone spotted a guy, supposedly in his '40's, swimming in the bottom of the gorge. Apparently after NOT heeding warnings and deliberately climbing over a retaining wall and jumping into the water.
Surprisingly enough, he survived the 50 meter plunge, and then waded ashore! Rescuers saw him swimming around, but by the time they rappelled down the steep and rocky gorge, he`d made it out of the swirling water. One rescuer said a few feet one way, and the guy would`ve been swept downstream. A few feet the other way, he`d have been smashed by the rocks. They put him in a rescue basket and had to haul him up. By hand.
Our hero did not survive unscathed. He`s listed in critical but stable condition with busted ribs and a punctured lung, but he`ll survive. And in doing so, he`s become just the 3rd person to take a tumble over the falls unaided (no barrel or padding or anything) and lived to tell about it. A Canadian man went over them in 2009, a Michigan man in 2003.
Ironically, today`s survivor was trying to commit suicide!
`Nuff said.
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