New Kayak Waterfall Record Set

[grahamfitter]

Link to tail of dropping 127 feet in 2.9 seconds.

I don't care how much that volume of water breaks the surface tension, landing that is going to be ugly!

Cheers,
Graham

 

[adventureduo]

Damn :Wow1:

 

[kerry]

About 19 years ago a guy ran Niagara Falls in a Perception Gyramax C-1. I've watched the video of him doing it. Does a World Record require that you survive the attempt?

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Accident_detail_accidentid_74_

Picture of Sharp going over the lip of Horseshoe Falls:

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?id=91012&b=1

Some of the accounts mistake his C-1 as a kayak. They also mistake a picture of his airbag as a rudder!!

 

[jnaut]

About 19 years ago a guy ran Niagara Falls in a Perception Gyramax C-1. I've watched the video of him doing it. Does a World Record require that you survive the attempt?

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Accident_detail_accidentid_74_

Yes, otherwise the world record would be much, much higher. One could commit suicide over Victoria falls, and that would be it.

 

[grahamfitter]

Yes, otherwise the world record would be much, much higher. One could commit suicide over Victoria falls, and that would be it.

Victoria Falls is a measly 108 m (360 ft) and wouldn't get you anywhere close to the "I can't ever be beaten" record. For that you'd need to run Angel Falls in Venezuela which is a whopping 979 m (3,212 ft) with a clear drop of 807 m (2,647 ft).

Curiously Alden Bird's Let It Rain whitewater guidebook has some of those Niagara Falls photos. He doesn't suggest repeating the feat but he does describe the legally dubious run below the falls. Shuttle: police car.

Cheers,
Graham

 

[kellymoe]

I don't know Graham? It's impressive to a point but you know as well as I do it takes almost no skill to huck yourself off something like that. Now if the lead in to the drop was something like oh, Gorilla, that would be impressive.

 

[grahamfitter]

I don't know Graham? It's impressive to a point but you know as well as I do it takes almost no skill to huck yourself off something like that. Now if the lead in to the drop was something like oh, Gorilla, that would be impressive.

Its certainly going to start an arms race of hucking big waterfalls. I'm just impressed that somebody was willing to test the theory that they'd survive the impact!

I remember way back in the 80s when Shaun Baker was starting to tackle tricky narrow rocky waterfalls in the UK he routinely reported things like the number of people hospitalized. A friend of mine broke ribs landing a clean 60' fall in South America and apparently he was the least injured of the three of them.

The highest I've gone is about 35' and the worst bit was getting pinned in a dog-leg two feet above the drop. The drop itself was child's play.

Cheers,
Graham

 

[Funrover]

Damn!

 

[KEENO]

Hey Y'all.... Watch this!:snorkel:

 

[jeepmedic46]

Wow:snorkel:

 

[Ursidae69]

One of the old record holders from a few years ago is Crazy Ed who hails from my home town of Santa Fe. This is an older link, obviously the record is higher now, but there is a video link.

http://outside.away.com/outside/200401/video/crazy_ed.html

 

[RocKrawler]

THATS INSANE...

 

[grahamfitter]

The ABC news video is here. Like I said, that just has to hurt!

Cheers,
Graham

 

[T.Low]

I don't know Graham? It's impressive to a point but you know as well as I do it takes almost no skill to huck yourself off something like that. Now if the lead in to the drop was something like oh, Gorilla, that would be impressive.

Agreed.

I don't want to sound like a wet blanket, and really, who the hell am I... but I'm still infinitely more impressed by watching some of Kent Ford's moves down a slalom course in a C1 than I am by some guy hucking a Hail Mary.

Just my 2 very humble cents.

 

[jeepmedic46]

That did have to hurt.:smiley_drive: