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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by lupusreal on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:06PM (#39933910)
The skydiving accident rate also includes very experienced divers who do exceedingly reckless things, like wingsuiting next to mountains.
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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by imzadi on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:13PM (#39933990)
I mean, based on the observations in the article, there's really no way to know the accident rate with any certainty. No one is even keeping track. It's all reliant on self-reporting to a lobbying organization that most these places aren't even a part of.
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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by todfox on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:05PM (#39937321)
It does not because it only counts as a skydive if you exit an aircraft. If you're jumping off of land, it's BASE.
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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by avar on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:43AM (#39939029)
People deploy from aircraft and proceed to fly close to terrain with wingsuits. [1] is one example.

1. https://youtu.be/kooYQ0IOnoM?si=xCpGxbSmivlNY3e-

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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by foxyv on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:11AM (#39943390)
You may be right, I do know that there are very few total skydiving deaths per year so high risk activities could inflate the figures fairly easily. However, I don't think wing suiting is counted in the statistics.
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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by porkbeer on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:29AM (#39943615)
It is if they exited a plane to do so.
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