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it has been raining or blown out all week over in Broward County

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/lf_afp/afplifestyleuaedubai

I think it is the old BASE jumper that can blame himself that the "new" generation isn't prepared. People become mentors and take the extra time to teach...It isn't a noob that is asking you a question; it is an opportunity to teach and earn respect, so people will listen to you in the future. Do you think people care when a tenured base jumper says you can't jump that in the day or on weekends? The sport is going to keep growing expedientially and if you want it to remain the same then that is respectable but, you are also a fool. Change is going to happen, bad choices are going to get made and yes people are going to die. I would never jump at bridge day it isn't my style, seeing another jumper on a jump even bugs me, it is a for me sport. I don't knock people who video or even want to day blaze with 8 people that is what the sport is to them. I prefer to jump alone and have my memories for me. If you want the Carl story out there then get it out there. Learn from the past and grow. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.” - John Foster Dulles

the only things to jump down here are building, lots of towers and cranes...gets rained out quite often.

Johan Vervoort on yahoo news pictures of the week. Go to Yahoo.com and check out the photos of the week.

Paragliders use a zero P rip stop nylon with a sprayed sunblock treatment...the color really matters on how fast the wing breaks down.

Anyone that has been injured knows that recovery is slow and the darkest days of life. I have been on the heal for about 21 months now and still can't walk that well and with lots of pain. I still have one more surgery...does it get better? wanted to return to my normal life by now.

any locals for south miami...some questions please pm me.

matt, I think they are called little people:)

Tom, I remember watching you off the power tower slider up...maybe flight at 70'

dude...I have been learning how to walk again and have been in and out of the hospital for almost 18months now and am just getting to where I am considering a jump....It can always be worse

http://www.frappr.com/basejumpers

I am also moving to Plantation on Wednesday. I am still banged up but wanna know what is going on.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Chocolate in one hand - martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!" -Michelle

what is worse? Legal punishment or a human in the desert rotting, family without closure? I would rather go through a couple thousand dollars then live with the fact that I left a human in the wilderness to get eaten by rodents and birds and not have a final resting place.

I weight 260, 6'5" and had a fine time with my ace 310. In deep brakes there was air flow out the front of the canopy, which is not good, but wasn't bad enough to worry about.

oh crap you are right I work for the NPS and am trying to compile a list to sell to Jason for half a grand. It's a Google site and is protected. I have no idea why your computer got that.

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John KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) Base #528

I am an executive manager in a major hotel/casino in Las Vegas and have all access to anywhere in the place. I am also VERY tight with the owner.

Is this a dumb idea? I was thinking if you only use your base number then it would be amusing to see the concerntrations of jumpers www.frappr.com/basejumpers

The only ways you could get killed by a powerline is of course to hit one or to be in a flashover. Arcs are usually cause because of faults in the powerline system.Towers that have been hit by lightning have faults that glow in the dark and it is something that you would be able to see when you are about to climb the tower(if it is night). This happens when the power jumps from the wire across the insulator to the ungrounded tower(you would have to have the worst luck in the world or be DUMB enough to climb a giant metal object in a lightning storm) this causes a shortcircut. . A shortcirtut happens when you touch two or more line together or connect them with something like your body (wearing a baserig) and complete the connection(bridge the gap) or ground the system out. Substations have circutbreakers and can detect shorts and cut the power for a split second to stop the arc(flashover). This is usually cleared up and life goes on and the line is as good as before and ready for you to climb the tower again:) As far as the Arc that you see when you jump a tower. When you are on a tower the air around you gets ionized and you break that connection when you jump, if you were grounded at the time then you could create a fault in the system and have a flashover to the ground and you would be a crispy critter. You are not grounded at the time, so it is impossible for you to get electrocuted. As far as that feeling that you feel when you get off the tower or are on the tower it could be that you are in an electromagnetic field. Power-frequency fields in the US vary 60 times per second (60 Hz), and have a wavelength of 5,000 km. Power in most of the rest of the world is at 50 Hz. Broadcast AM radio has a frequency of around 10^6 (1,000,000) Hz and a wavelength of around 300 m. Most microwave ovens have a frequency of 2.54 x 10^9 Hz, and a wavelength of about 12 cm. X-rays have frequencies above 10^15 Hz, and wavelengths of less than 100 nanometers. Power-frequency sources are clearly too short compared to their wavelength (5,000 km) to be effective radiation sources, but can still leave your electrically ran system we call your body a little off.

It is from the sacramento bee http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13784975p-14626699c.html and this from the seasoned base jumper http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9856454/

John Agnos Sr. said his son is a veteran sky diver and just started BASE jumping last year. While the father respects his son's love of the sport, it's trying for him. "I just don't like it," he said.