Eagle

... wings and birds of all kinds being fastened to him, since by their fluttering they could lighten the leap,

Well, that was news for you, was it. Odysseus getting suicidal by taking such a big risk. Now we can understand why people would experience this as undesirable, being flung from the leap as an outcast, as an unwanted person, a misfit to society. Bye bye to heroism.

Geographica Book 10.2 part 14 Strabo
Geographica Book 10.2 part 14-15 Strabo

The base of the leap where the fishing-boats must have been.

and also for a number of men, stationed all round below the rock in small fishing-boats, to take the victim in, and, when he had been taken on board, to do all in their power to get him safely outside their borders.

So yes, he looked like a soaring eagle. But what will happen when Odysseus hit the water? Isn't he smashed against the rocks or will he drown in the sea?

From here Odysseus must have been taken on board to get him outside the borders. Does Odysseus' Odyssey ends here? Down the leap at the altar at Capo Dukato?

And how about that he swooped down like an eagle? This is what Strabo wrote about the rite at the Leap of the cliffs.