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Steve Trotter (born November 13, 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a daredevil who is the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He is one of only a few people to have performed the stunt twice. He has also performed other illegal stunts.〔(Steve Trotter Online:Chronicles of a Thrillseeker, retrieved June 16, 2011. )〕〔(How Stuff Works web site, retrieved December 3, 2006. )〕 ==1985 - Successful journey over Niagara Falls== Trotter always sought to make a floating death-defying journey over Niagara Falls. He planned for several months and decided upon the month of August to perform his stunt. Upon arriving in Niagara, he pinpointed the next day, August 16, 1985, as the day for the roll. In the morning, upon readying himself to get in the water with the barrel, he was stopped when police showed up, foiling his first attempt. He was escorted by Canadian authorities with his barrel back to the US border and released.〔 On August 18, 1985, Trotter began his attempt from a location just upstream from the Horseshoe Falls. He survived the plunge uninjured. He became the youngest person to ever survive the stunt (age 22) and the first American in 25 years to go over the Falls in a barrel.〔〔(Niagara Falls Daredevils: a history )〕 He used two pickle barrels placed end-to-end. The exterior was reinforced with layers of fiberglass, balsa wood for flotation, and covered with truck tire inner tubes for shock absorption. Trotter was strapped into an automotive racing harness, and equipped with flashlights, lifejacket, two-way radio, and oxygen tanks. The ends of the barrel were sealed with submarine-style twist caps. At 8:30AM, Trotter's 11-man crew launched his barrel into the Niagara River rapids, a quarter-mile from the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Trotter went over the Falls and survived with minor scrapes. Trotter said the stunt was "like the best roller-coaster ride you had as a 10-year-old." He was fined $500 by the Niagara Parks Police for "illegally stunting in a park."〔 Trotter appeared on ''Good Morning America'' and the ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. Trotter's photo was published in ''Time'' magazine, he made the front-page of ''USA Today'', and numerous other publications worldwide. He was selected by ''Mademoiselle'' as "One of the 10 Sexiest Men in the World." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Trotter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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