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Just read on a french forum,

Jean-Marc Mouligné landed in the water and drowned on saturday
http://www.tsr.ch/...p;cKey=1183227666000

When he was doing his AFF and was talking about his catapult, I thought this guy was nuts. He was a dreamer who put all he had in his dreams, and made all the non-believers dream.

Fly free.

can somebody translate or got more info....

Here you go:

Base jumping specialist Jean-Marc Mouligne died by drowning Saturday
in the Verdon gorges after a jump in La-Palud-sur-Verdon (in
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), according to police reports.

Base jump is a dangerous sport which involves throwing oneself off
a cliff with a parachute. Jean-March Mouligne, 57 years old, was
known as the human catapult since he learned how to catapult himself
more than 100 metres from the ground before opening his parachute.

According to the police, he had made a jump, and it was on landing
that his parachute, falling into the water, pulled him to the bottom.

His body was found at the end of the morning by practioners of
white-water sports. He was removed by helicopter at the end of
the afternoon.

Jean-Marc Mouligne was originally from Romainville in Seine-Saint-Denis.

This can't be true!!

I am kind of hoping it's one of his jokes again.

Fly free you mad man, Cathie, the girls and I are going to miss the mad scientist with an unforgettable laugh.

I still can't believe it!

poc

Edited to add pic thanks to Jochen. This was on set last year. Again we're going to miss you crazy frenchman. Very few people I have met can say they have had fuller a life.

thanx for translation.....
meet him last year in verdon...funny guy...

sad day.......again....

flyfree bro......

Happy to help. I've been searching for more news in Google.fr, and if a longer article with more detail appears, I will translate that too.

Then you will remember his laugh...
... and his frap hat...

when I met him, he wouldn't wear a helet, cause it would impair his hearing for the catapult jump.... He was on AFF3

I have got so many of those kind of stories...
Stubborn as an ox but always laughing.

Man that guy was funny!

fly free brother
condolance to family and freinds

 

according to the French Base forum, he was alone as he often was. A couple of friends had to join him later for another jump.

Fly free Brother!
I only met you briefly in Chamonix last december on a parking lot on our way to an exit point...
When I first saw you I totally remember thinking:" Dude... is this old guy a jumper?"
You got you stashbag out of your car and off we went to the exit point... Got to chit chat with you for 15 very intertaining minutes!!!
You did come across as some sort of looney but in the most positive way!!!
I had no idea that you were the guy behind the catapult... but now I put two and two together and I am not surprised in the least.... You are one of these guys who lived large and free...

May I age as good as you did brother...

RIP

Sorry for your loss!- i know you two were great friends, and it really was a pleasure to meet that 'crazy french guy'.

reiner

I found another article. It has no further detail, but I translated it anyway:

http://www.lesdessousdusport.fr/index.php/?2007/07/06/223-base-jump-mort-de-jean-marc-mouligne

Jean-Marc Mouligne, a base-jumping specialist, died yesterday at the
age of 57 as a result of a jump which went wrong. In 2006, he realized
his childhood dream to become the first "human catapult" thanks to an
impressive machine which enabled him to fire himself over 100 metres
above the ground, before opening his parachute. The daredevil aficionado
of extreme sensations was also a great specialist in base jumping, an
extreme sport consisting of jumping from a cliff in free fall, and
opening one's parachute at the last moment. Yesterday, at 57 years
of age, he made "one jump too many" in the Haute-Provence Alpes, at
La Palud sur Verdon. After a successful jump and landing, he was swept
into the gorges of Verdon, probably because of his parachute, which
had fallen in the water and which was sinking to the bottom. After the
death of the free-diver Loic Leferme a few months ago, it is another
big name from extreme sport who has passed away, taken by his passion.