many firsts:
- The first with his own television show on Britain's CH4 network.
- The first to escape a locked titanium bank safe underwater on television.
- The first and only to have performed at The White House for the President.
- The first and only to have escaped the antique Tower leg irons of Billy the Kid.
- The first and only to escape the cell of Al Capone at Eastern State Penitentiary.
- He's escaped thousands of pairs
of handcuffs from over twenty
different countries. - He's escaped a maximum security prison cell in Brooklyn, NY, one of 19 jailbreaks throughout the United States and Great Britain.
- He's escaped a locked New York
City Transit, "Revenue Collection Carrier Bag." - He's escaped numerous canvas straitjackets including the
all-leather straitjacket made by
Menkes Leather Works. - He's escaped a twenty pound ball and chain and handcuffs at the bottom of the Hudson River; plus numerous other escapes in the Mississippi, Boston Harbor, Long Island Sound, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Potomac, the Atlantic Ocean, the East River and others.
- He's escaped the US Navy's
highly secure, Nuclear Aquatic Containment Trap.