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More BASE-jumping laws unlikely in Idaho Posted 6/10/2006 7:35 AM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this Base jumper Ryan Hoffman of North Carolina does a double flip. The bridge is the only manmade location in the United States where so-called BASE jumpers aren't required to get a special permit . Enlarge Base jumper Ryan Hoffman of North Carolina does a double flip. The bridge is the only manmade location in the United States where so-called BASE jumpers aren't required to get a special permit . BOISE (AP) — The jumpers leaping from the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls free-fall for three seconds before releasing their parachutes during a 486-foot descent. The bridge is the only manmade location in the United States where so-called BASE jumpers — short for the buildings, antennae, spans and earth from which participants leap — aren't required to get a special permit for year-round jumps. It also was the scene of four accidents in as many days last month, including one that killed a 34-year-old California woman. Still, officials say they don't have any plans to increase local regulation of the sport. "We spend more time out on lost snowmobilers than we ever do on BASE jumping," said Nancy Howell, spokeswoman for the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Department. "We're not reassessing anything." Unlike skydiving, where people jumping out of an airplane have several thousand feet to pull their parachutes, the margin for error in BASE jumping is much narrower. Once they jump, they have only a few seconds to deploy parachutes packed specially to fill with air quickly. Shannon Carmel Dean of Alameda, Calif., became the third person to die since 2002 while jumping from the Perrine Bridge when she slammed into the Snake River on May 29 after her parachute failed to deploy. Since 1981, there have been at least 99 BASE-jump fatalities around the world, according to the World BASE Fatality List, a website maintained by a BASE jumper. Those risks haven't kept about 1,500 BASE jumpers around the world from making an estimated 40,000 jumps annually, said Martin Tilley, owner of Asylum Designs, an Auburn, Calif., company that makes equipment for BASE jumping. "BASE jumping is never going to go away," he said. "You're never going to eliminate the desire for people to thrust themselves off fixed objects and float safely to earth with the aid of a parachute." In Twin Falls, jumping already has resumed since Dean's death, said Tom Aiello, a BASE-jumping instructor. "I wouldn't exactly say it's business as usual," Aiello said. "But things go on." Twin Falls officials have quietly encouraged BASE jumping since it began there in the 1980s, in part because the estimated 5,000 jumps each year bring cash into the local economy. But in most of the United States, jumpers often face arrest. The National Park Service doesn't permit BASE jumping, including from the monoliths of Yosemite National Park, where six people had died, including a woman who was protesting the ban. An 876-foot bridge over West Virginia's New River Gorge is open just once a year. BASE jumping has been forbidden for years on 730-foot Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, Calif., where a stuntman in the Vin Diesel movie "XXX" used a stolen Corvette to start a memorable BASE jump. (The film crew had a permit. Diesel's character gets arrested.) An estimated 50 people jump each year anyway. Park managers issue about three $250 citations annually. "One guy bungee jumped, and as he got up to the top, he cut himself loose, and BASE jumped down," said Mike Lynch, the area's supervising ranger. "He was cited. Or as we like to say, given his 'certification' on the jump." Officials are considering requests to loosen the restrictions. But Lynch said nothing is decided, and the existing ban will likely remain. A new draft of National Park Service management policies released in October had proposed striking the provision banning BASE jumping. The final version is due out later this year, but officials in Washington, D.C., say it would still be up to park superintendents whether to issue permits. So far, no park officials have expressed interest in doing so. "It would probably take a lot of courage for superintendents to propose allowing BASE jumping because it has had such a difficult history in the parks," said Chick Fagan, deputy chief in the NPS's office of policy. Although leaping from bridges and other easily accessible sites is largely forbidden, jumpers can spring freely from remote cliffs on Bureau of Land Management territory, including hundreds of sites in the Utah desert. Unlike the National Park Service, BLM officials say their mission is to promote "multiple use" of public land, including cattle grazing, hunting and BASE jumping. They do, however, encourage etiquette to reduce conflicts with others on the land. "We don't like people to jump into campgrounds," said Maggie Wyatt, BLM field manager in Moab, Utah. "It tends to alarm the campers." Marta Empinotti-Pouchert, 41, who teaches BASE jumping to experienced skydivers in Moab, was in Twin Falls the day Dean died. "It's always devastating," Empinotti-Pouchert said. "But as a jumper, you think, 'What's the option?' To live not fully? To be afraid of living? Because people like us — we need this."

tjhat's why I prefer to fly! safer than interstates with all the tired sleepy drivers out there... faster too... oh yea first class too choach is packed this year...

OKLAHOMA!

no 3 ring release system either....

You Never know... My sister daughter got a heart transplant from Donor in Texas and she lives in St. Louis MO. as for Privacy rules... my sister tracked down and found donor family they are close friends.. and my sister daufghter always visits them when in Texas (where I am)

Paige my checks in mail today. Mike

I used to jump there in the late 80's.. nice DZ.... Haven't been there in years... however

you'll fix your focus on the ball.. and not watch where your going and hit something.. not a good idea if you ask me... student hit things all the time.. search post for artical about judgeing flare height you'll find some good tips...better than ball idea...safer too

GFD she's often a good laugh....

soccer not very popular here in states. I don't like it, nor do I like basketball or baseball just NFL Football

Israeli parachutist accidentally lands near Dimona nuclear centre Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) 05/22/2006 Tel Aviv (dpa) - An Israeli parachutist carried away by the wind accidentally drifted toward Israel's top secret nuclear research centre near the southern town of Dimona late Monday afternoon, prompting police forces to rush to the area. Two F16 fighter jets were also sent into the skies as the parachutist headed involuntarily toward the nuclear installation, an Israeli army spokeswoman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The parachutist had entered the no-fly security zone surrounding the facility, she said. He later managed to land safely near the nearby town of Yerucham, where he was taken in for questioning but released shortly afterwards. Although Israel has never admitted it, international experts say the country uses the Dimona plant, which opened in the early 1960s, for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. In 1986, a former Israeli technician, Mordechai Vanunu, sold information and photographs of the site to The Times of London. He was kidnapped by agents of the Israeli Mossad agency from Italy and sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason and espionage.

yea, It's saturday.. Billy should be at DZ and Mom watching the kid....

Max Glad to hear...at rate your going you should be jumping with the Pieces of Eight in September at Perris CA. Mike

ASC owners are involved with the 800 skyride scam. do a search on skyride here for more information. Billy and many others of us will not jump at ASC The Farm is the place to go.

got a passport? I'm thinking of going to Zurich for 4 or 5 days... I'm bored. Oh ya going business class too its a long flight. I'm going solo..

1. Male yep I'm male. 2. Skydiver 1st jump May 1983.... 3. 25-40 I'm 47. But I act younger. 4. loyal never cheated , never will. My trust is great gift I can give her.. 5. honest Honesty is best policy. lies will get you caught anyway. 6. travels yep, work for AA, thinking about going to Zurich next week..(solo) something to do.. 7. not jealous nope not jealous 8. not afraid to love nope, not afraid. 9. good cook I can't cook worth shit.. but I can learn... Mom hates me in kitchen says I make bigger mess than barrel of monkeys. (thats what she said when I was young) 10. athletic working on it. go to gym now. 11. not married, dating or ever unfaithful Definitely single ...never married.

hearing impaired, blonde wavy hair , yea I agree it sounds like skycurlycat.. Catherine "Cat" Kennendy too..

deaf skydiver Hiro lives in Japan.. maybe he can help you out?

gee they make big deal out of it . tires blow out quite often... just land on the rims... problem is rims are made of Magnesium and when they get hot as in scraping runway they ingite and make their own O2 supply too.. very nasty type fire to put out. Sand works great on it. all in all I think news media made a big deal over nothing...

those are list of aircraft that have flown at past WFFC's...

Aviation & Space week had a artical about proposed C-17 tanket / combi awhile back..

Hmm rantoul is an hour, hour and a half from chicago not 12 -14 hours. I'm in Texas and So is my VW Westfalia camper I think with higher fuel cost i'll party closer to home, even though I hate to jump in Texas...

we should NOT buy airbus tankers! we should buy 767 or maybe have the C-17 made into a tanker? I'm against the airbus tanker because long after aircrft are built, we'll be buying parts from French etc to support this aircraft for next 20 to 40 years! its our tax dollars and we should have a US made tanker either a 767 / or have the 777 / C-15 modified for tanker roles. the KC-10 was based on the DC-10