Transits
Driving on the Rhine Falls was long considered as impossible. The ghost boat myth reinfroce the lethal danger of the human haughtiness. Nevertheless, in recent times the Rhine Falls was traveled with a kayak. The first person was Jozef Hanulik, a czech student ,who sailed on 21st February 1976, the right route (since then called the "czech route") successfully. Hanulik wore on his journey, a diving suit, an american football helmet, a well cushioned life jacket and a diver rescue vest with compressed air for six minutes. "I line up the trip with an old boat" Hanulik let the reporters knew, "because I expected that it might break during a leap." The second and third river transit, but within in the middle of the river, was coped by the Germans Schorschi Schauf and Thomas Fink on 12th January 1997 (Fink in a canoe). In 1999, the boat ride between the Flurlinger bridge and the Rhine Falls was formal prohibited. Daring white water fans are not scare away from this prohibition. In 2003, the Rhine Falls was traveld on again from Schorschi Schauf with Frank Preuss in a kayak on the "Czech Route". On November 19th, 2005 Felix Lämmler succeeded as the first swiss kayakers to drive through the middle and on the right side. The river transit in the middle was repeated on 11th November 2006 from Felix Lämmler. On 12th November 2006 the same route was successfully driven by the Tyrolean Bernhard Mauracher and the German Nils Kagel. On 19 th November 2006, the most difficult and dangerous route on the left Zurich side at the "Känzeli" has been traveled for the first time by Felix Lämmler .