If you disconnect your RSL...

[riddler 0]

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http://www.skydivingfatalities.com/

This is a really useful site, but since it hasn't been update in a year and a half, I recommend:

http://www.skydivingfatalities.info/

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[KellyF 16]

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I'm with Kelly on this one. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to tangle main suspension lines with a ring sight...unless you open in a rapid front loop, that is.

The point is moot though, because we know it has happened. There's two dead skydivers to show this. I know it's a risk for me because I had a risers strike me accross the nose about a year back, it took some skin off. If a riser can hit my nose, it can hit a ring sight.

I don't thnk it is a moot point, though. We are trying to understand the cause of a problem so that we may be able to find a solution. There have obviously been a couple of fatalities where a part of the camera helmet got entangled that may hve been prevented if the helmet was released, but how did it get entangled in the first place?

Bill and I are both rig manufacturers, and understanding situations like this will help us build better equipment for everyone to use in the future. I view things like "don't jump an RSL if you jump a camera, due to entanglements" as a band-aid type solution, you need to look deeper into the problem to find a solution.

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