Seadoo Niagara Falls Rapids Man goes down in whirlpool!
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2022
- Marina Mafia jumps in for the risky ride up Niagara river to the level 5 rapids, making your way up river past the hydro dams past the BIG rapid and finally to the whirl pool. You will see man go underwater with the Seadoo and also another flip over off his Seadoo in the rapids. Making your way to the whirlpool seems to be as far as anyone is allowed to go, but I don't know if we would dare further if allowed anyways.
Launch Ramp - 8 Princess Rd
Good safety comments, particularly about backup rescuer and situation awareness. In whitewater kayaking and rafting the team concept is essential. Cool mega volume river.
Off roading on water 🤔 I like it
I did this like 25years ago. Such a great time! Brought back lots of fun memories. Thanks
Hey thanks for very nice comment, what an energizing place it is.
Whirlpool is the strongest rapid in the world on the surface, under it is SO MUCH WORSE. Thats Niagara Falls bottle necked into that spot and if you go under in level 6 you can get sucked down so easily. You are very lucky to survive that!!!
What a rush, defiantly a panic moment and defiantly lots to consider.
Yeah, Im so glad you made it out. Thats really insane to watch the footage of that.
I did this a few years ago with a small Yamaha EX sport and I still had PTSD after a month . Never again ! But super awesome video , thanks for sharing 🙏
I’m afraid my partner has joined you with the PTSD, can’t return with him.
Gnarly!!!Love the song at the end!!
I ride there often. You definitely don't want to fall off your lucky to come out. Don't ride slow through those rapids lol tons of big rocks under the water
Awesome video brother, can’t wait to hit the water !
That's crazy. Just looking at those rapids frightens me
An absolute thrilling venture
Solid question here in the event of an engine failure are you SOL for insurance coverage due to where it was taken? like it it went off a water fall.
I wrecked you coverage is only. Limited to seasonal (summer) and that it does not extend to (off shore ocean riding)
Unless you upgrade, otherwise I felt confident my insurance would cover these waters as inland Canadian waters.
Easy to confirm yourself.
This is absolutely insane!
We’re a special crowd :P
Awesome video. Where’s the footage when you went down? Did the jet ski take off?
We had to get out there and make sure our man was good, stop chasing him with the camera.. too bad. Jet ski and him both moved a good distance for sure.
A Spark Trixx would be awesome for this. You could set the trim really high to keep the nose up. That way you're not nose-diving into every wave.
That’s awesome thought, I just want someone else to try it first! Haha. So much fun.
Nick thinks that was fun. Not sure I’ll be going back for a 3ed attempt
Your presence is mandatory, it’s part of your membership obligation to Marina Mafia :) 3rd time last time. After that all Voluntary.
Way to go Cuz. Next stop come to BC and do a backcountry ski with me.
I’ll forward the message for you!
do you need permits to ride? what are the rules,
Hey, great questions. As far as I can tell with multiple trips and other boaters.
You can come in the low side of the falls from St. Catharines just fine all the way up to the whirlpool and inside the whirlpool but may not be allowed past that. You’ll fine a boat ramp on the lower river just before the fun stuff as well near the power plants.
Let’s go!!! Some of the best content out there.
I hope so, defiantly love trying to get the best stuff
1:58 The take the water from above the falls. Tunnels and canals to get it to the station
So big tunnels are built into ground from falls to the stations? For real?
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Yep, pretty cool eh?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Adam_Beck_Hydroelectric_Generating_Stations
Upstream of the International Control Dam are three tunnel intakes which run under Niagara Falls, Ontario and surface 2 km (1.2 mi) upstream of the Sir Adam Beck Generating Stations. All three tunnel intakes are upstream of the Control Dam, however one of the three tunnels is unseen, under the water, located directly in front of the Control Dam, Control Tower. The open cut canal and the tunnel canal cross at the "Cross Over" where there is a third channel feeding the 174 MW pump generating station 43°08′40″N 79°03′36″W which pumps water up into the man-made reservoir at night and generates electricity during the day, feeding the water back to the Sir Adam Beck Generating Complex.[6]
Done the same ride on old Spx’s
We just learned that some have, I wasn't sure it would have enough power to get up to the whirlpool.
You guys are nuts - I love it!! Nice editing as well.
Appreciate that, fuel the adrenaline
Nice editing? Are you on crack?
Still can’t believe you guys did this! 🤙🏻
I’ll go with you guys!!! I’ll fly back for that ride.
👏😱👏👍👌🇳🇴
Those are intakes I live here I know
Excellent! Won’t sound dumb next time :)
Love it
My hubby and I have been thinking of doing this ride, maybe not as close as you guys but I just wanted to know a few questions…where did you launched from?, did you have to refuel at any point? And so I know how far not to go how far did you get? Did you make it past devils holes? Your video was probably the best explained video of that ride that I’ve seen and it was pretty epic!!
Hey thank you so much for enjoying the video!
We launched at St Catherine’s Marina/port Weller. However I’ve done that twice and after riding you get beat up and just wanna go home sometimes or do some other things at the falls after. So we suggest using the Queenston Docks. It puts you right at the entrance of the gorge and you’ll save lots of gas money.
We never had to fill up once, but did come back empty after riding quite a while, landing in St Catherine’s. We haven’t done this yet, but will be next time. Maybe even join you.
Devils hole rapids, yes we did make it past them all the way to the whirlpool, which is where I believe everyone has to stop and I don’t think anyone could make it anyways. It’s considered impassible, you’ll see why in person or go ahead and buy tickets to the white water walk for $20 and walk down by the level six rapids.
Again thanks for the view and love this adventure.
I need to do this in my life
Incredible experience for the brave