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By Gary W. Taylor
The Adirondacks have 2,800 lakes and ponds. Many of them are great for sailing!
My wife and I have a 22′ O’Day sailboat that we keep on Lake George. “Dream Maker”, is now 14 years old, and still gets comments from everyone on how great she looks. Read More
Prior to your jump you will be required to attend a short class which will familiarize you with your issued equipment and safety procedures for high altitude jumps. After the class you will be fitted with an oxygen mask and helmet, this may take a few minutes so please be patient. Your bailout bottle will be attached to your rig or if you are jumping HALO rigs provided by the instructor they are already attached. Upon being fitted with all your equipment you will receive a Jump Master safety check and then directed to the console and assigned to a specific port or 02 hose. Read More
‘Get mad about HIV/Aids’ is the motto of the first UK-wide NUS Student Charity Day on 3 May. The NUS wants to make the day a huge success to benefit its chosen charity ActionAid and its work with people living with HIV and Aids in Africa.
Students nationwide are already coming up with fantastic fundraising ideas and it’s not tea mornings and jumble sales. Extreme sports are more the order of the day, with some events involving unaccompanied leaps from tall structures. If you have always secretly thought that bungee jumping is for wimps, SCAD-diving does it without ropes! Read More
A BASE jumper who missed his January court date to hear charges in connection with jumping from a Walnut Grove television tower last October has surrendered to authorities.
The arraignment for John Agnos, 41, was scheduled for January 13. He is charged with trespassing following the failed October 27 attempt to jump from the transmitter tower shared by several television stations, including News10.
The Hayward man said he was not aware an arrest warrant had been posted for his failure to appear in court. He told a reporter he thought the case had been dropped.
Agnos jumped from the tower and successfully deployed his parachute, but became entangled in the guy wires that support the structure. Stranded nearly 200 feet above ground. Agnos used his cell phone to call 911.
Fire crews from the Sacramento, Elk Grove and Walnut Grove fire departments responded to the scene. After considering several options, rescue specialist John Clark of the Sacramento Fire Department climbed the nearly vertical guy wire to reached Agnos. Clark secured a line to the guy wire, cut the parachute free, and lowered Agnos to the ground. His ordeal lasted nearly five hours.
Agnos was transported to the U.C. Davis Medical Center, but he was not seriously injured in the incident.
It is believed Agnos was engaging in a daredevil form of parachuting known as BASE jumping, in which the participant leaps from a tall structure or natural formation. BASE stands for buildings, antennae, spans, and earth.
The new arraignment date for Agnos is March 3 in Sacramento Superior Court.
Agnos could be liable for more than $20,000 in restitution for the cost of rescuing him, as well as a fine and six months in jail, if convicted.
What normal person would throw themselves off a tall building or the edge of a cliff for fun?
Thirty-seven-year-old Edgar Gaiao would, and has done so countless times. This active base jumper, who is known about town for jumping off the Soweto cooling towers for kicks, talks passionately about his extreme hobby.
“What I love about base jumping is that there are no rules and there is no governing body that tells you how things are supposed to be done. You have to take full responsibility for the decisions you make at a jump,” Gaiao says. Read More
An accident-prone Sydney BASE jumper has quit after two rescues embarrassed the fringe sport’s enthusiasts. President of the Australian BASE Jumping Association, Gary Cunningham, said 26-year-old Ben Gibson had given up the high-risk sport. Read More