Man survives jump over Niagara Falls
A man was plucked from the Niagara River on Wednesday after surviving a dramatic plunge over the majestic Niagara Falls that straddle the Canada-US border, police said.
At around 2:00 pm a tourist saw the man believed to be in his late-30s crawl over a wall and enter rapids south of the falls, the Niagara Park Police said in a statemen
Moments later, he was swept over the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side, dropping some 56 meters (184 feet) into the river below.
A Canadian rescue team attempted to extract him, "but he refused any assistance and swam further away into the river," police said.
The man then grabbed onto a log, and a private helicopter used the air flow from its main rotor to push the man closer to shore
A Niagara Falls firefighter, tethered to shore and wearing a dry suit, went into the river and dragged him out, police said.
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