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If ya want some stink come talk to my ( now ex Boss). I had a thread up but it died during the crash. Last person to be involved in a fatality here in Colorado and he lived. http://www.coloradoconnection.com/ne...aspx?id=737280Ps- there is some stink in this thread.
He is still AD and your welcome to come talk to him, Or what is left.
I see you running, tell me what your running from
Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.
Wow, BOTH canopies deployed at the same time? That's rare as hell, and VERY bad ju-ju. So sorry for the guy that died and your friend/boss as well, but I'd have to say there's a 3rd person carrying some blame as well, for not doing a good pre-jump inspection of their rig. Even us unwashed Okies back in the 80's would look over each other's rigs like monkeys looking for fleas, and sometimes a potential problem WAS found.Originally Posted by jerrymrc
Bad things do happen, but it makes me wonder what happeneD and if it was use error. Did he deploy the main then have a problem? Did he Not cut away the main and deployed the reserve? I wonder what the reserve repack date was? Did he free fall through the hard deck and have his Cypres fire which would deploy the reserve not taking into account the main? Either way its horrible.
Last edited by Geology Rocks; 11-28-2012 at 14:47.
Main did not deploy. Pulled the reserve and well, ya know what happens when you take the tension off something? What happened next is still somewhat up in the air but you can be the best bomb De-fusier in the world but try it with a panicked person strapped to ya. Burned in with just a drag.
I see you running, tell me what your running from
Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.
Got ya. I was under the impression that the main deployed as well as the reserve and they got tangled.
Thank you for clearing that up.
You guys are totally bumming me out here.
What's "swooping?" Sorry to hear about friends lost.
Swooping is coming in fast and just skimming the ground while you get slower. Looks cool, but eventually you will get hurt doing it. Not if, but when.
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and I'm crazy about my tea at night
dont be bummed out. Skydiving in the grand scheme of things is safe. The sang in skydiving is "remember when skydiving was more dangerous than sex?" Parachutes are designed to open. They are designed to catch air and they want to open. My friends and I did many dumb things in skydiving. Fastest pack and jump contest? Throw it in a trash bag or cut away your main and jump with just your reserve...it will open! haha. Its over all safe, but you can still die doing things right. Get it for him and get the video. He wont remember the jump details and the video will help him remember it.
Badger...the safest type of swoop is over water. You do that because water will give a bit and you can survive mistakes where as the ground doesn't give at all. Swooping can reach speeds of close to 80mph depending on your parachutes sqft size. I had friends flying 60sqft canopies that couldn't swoop with their cypres2 on because it could activate their reserve thinking they were still in free fall. skydiving is as dangerous as you want to make it.
Last edited by Geology Rocks; 11-28-2012 at 18:09.
I am really not trying to but this subject is kind of close to home. I will say they have not given his license to drive back to him. I do know they were doing a one day class and then you could do a single static line jump the next. We had a shop day the week before and some of my co-workers jumped by themselves (first jump).
I see you running, tell me what your running from
Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.
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