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MAN Vs Niagara

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Today, my Dad and myself were fishing the lower river for Bass in a tourny that was going on. Sometime around noon we decided to take a run up river to Devils hole. So, we started to make our run up the river and I look behind the boat and see a small Zodiak coming up right behind us, maybe had a 25 HP Honda 4 stroke on it! So, we get to the spot were most normal people stop when you get up past the power dams, and this little Dingy keeps going full bore up the rapids and, from what we saw, no life jackets on. They continue up river until we couldnt see them anymore! Not thinking much of it thinking maybe they had done that before, so we cracked a couple jokes and started fishing, about 20min later we see the little boat coming back down river prop side up followed closely by a Whirlpool Jet Boat! So, seeing the jet boat there we figured that they had pulled the people on the big boat and were just keeping an eye on the dingy, but as it got closer we could see 2 people floating in the water now with life jackets on. So, we figure either they put them on at one point before they got any further or jet boat somehow got the jackets to them both, they were floating on their backs not doing much paddling, by then another empty jet boat had shown up and picked up the first person. We motored over to the second person and pulled her to our boat with the landing net and then took her over to the jet boat! After that the Jet boat guys recovered the Dingy and dragged it to the US marina. A tow truck showed up to pull it up to street level.

Both people seemed shookin up but doing well! I still cant figure out what was going through these peoples heads to where they both thought it was a good idea. Both people were near 40 years old I would say and likely under the influence of some kinda substance or just in shock anyhow the lesson learned here is take the stairs to the whirpool or you’ll end up like this! for pictures of the incident go to www.getoutniagara.ca

Submitted on 08/10/2010

Submitted by: Jeff Bondar
Reference: Saturday August 7th & www.getoutniagara.ca/

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Once again a picture is worth a thousand words. Seeing that Zodiac flipped over in such choppy water is more than enough for me. Those idiots should have known to turn back once the boat started catching air from those rapids... Thanks, Jeff, and good job with the rescue!

Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Oh good grief!

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