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Yesterday (july 29) a 34 year old male BASE jumper got knoked unconcius, and almost drowned when he performed a cutaway at aprox. 60 feet above the water. His condition is now reported to be stable.

I have only read articles in newspapers about this incident, but it seems to me as he miscalculated his altitude.

This is by the way the third incident at Kjerag the last seven days. There has been a lot of bad publicity for BASE jumping (and skydiving) in Norwegian media lately. See also my post in the "skydiving talk back" forum, about legal actions against rescue workers at Kjerag.

See the posts at Blinc Magazine

Erno

This really sucks.. We wouldn't want the jumping at Kjerag and Smellveggen to be shut down due to some stupid stunts being made there, just because its such an "easy" place to jump.

The link to Blinc doesn't work, and could you maybe post a link to the Norwegian articles if they are on the internet. I couldn't find them.

Hope he heals fast.

Remember that this incident occured in 2002 (check the date on the original post). It was on the first page of the incidents forum because I am currently moving posts out of the General BASE forum (where they were transferred from the old DZ.com BASE forum), and I am starting with the oldest posts.

hmm.. sorry.. didn't see that.. fell free to deleted my post then. Great site by the way.