BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Impulse' drove Niagara plunge man: "Kirk Jones, the only person to survive a plunge over Niagara Falls without any protection devices, has claimed it was a spur of the moment act.
'It was an impulsive one-second thing and in a second-and-a-half I was in the water,' Mr Jones, 40, told a Detroit television station.
But family and friends of the Michigan daredevil say Mr Jones had been planning the dive for months and had even gone so far as to scout out the best spot to leap on a holiday with his parents. "