Title

Niagara Gorge Trips Raft Recovery on the Niagara River at the Whirlpool

Description

en-CA A thirty-seven foot long air inflated rubber and nylon raft belonging to Niagara Gorge River Trips Inc. (owned by George Butterfield of Toronto) carrying twenty-seven tourist and two pilots capsized in the Whirlpool Rapids throwing everyone into the wild churning white water. Three passengers died from drowning. Twenty-six survived this ordeal. The accident occurred during the 11th trial run of this raft tour through the Niagara River rapids. The raft had departed from the Maid of the Mist dock at the base of the Prospect Point Tower and was about two mile downstream of a five mile route to Lewiston, New York. The three dead persons were identified as: Julia Martinez, age 30 of Toronto; David Ross, age 37 of Toronto and Anthony Sawczyk, age 24 of Niagara Falls, New York. Three of the survivors were admitted to the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center with serious injuries. Each of the passengers had paid fee of $20 for this journey. The youngest passenger was 16 years old and the oldest was 52 years old. Four of the passengers were women. To further add to this tragedy, one man, piloting a 22 foot - 250 horsepower jet boat died of a heart attack while attempting to recover this raft from the Whirlpool

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=397683

Creator

Unknown

Type

Still Image

Is Part Of

General Photograph Collection

Extent

8" by 10"

Medium

Black 7 white photograph

Provenance

Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada

Date Copyrighted

19750903

Subject

Niagara River - Accidents

Niagara Whirlpool and Rapids

Spanish Aero Car

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

Source

Niagara Falls (Ont.) Public Library

number

D525984

Format

Black and white photograph

Date Created

2014-01-15

Date Modified

2014-01-15