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They say that 1 jump in 110000 skydiving jumps ends in a fatality. Does anyone know what the figure would be for base jumps? It must be alot higher. I have read that in skydiving 1 jump out of 600 ends in a malfunctioning main which needs to be cut away. This figure scares me abit if i took up base jumping. thanks guys

from personal experience, 1 in 200 BASE jumps or so ends in a pricked finger from bagging a rig with a sand-spur on it.

I had heard that 1 out of 90,000 dies in skydiving and 1 out of 100 base jumpers will die. If that's true then I guess base jumping is 900 times more dangerous than skydiving. I try not to think about that kind of stuff!

100 out of 100 base jumpers will die......deep man...

very profound.

i say we ban life, as it could end in death

Thread here. In particular, have a look at the discussion on the last page referencing the medical article examining injury rates.



It shouldn't. BASE rigs aren't even roughly analagous to skydiving mains. A better comparison statistic would be the percentage of skydiving reserves that deploy with irrecoverable malfunctions.

On a skydive, you exit with a parachute on your back that you absolutely, positively trust to work 100% of the time that you deploy it. You call it the reserve.

BASE is similar in that you exit with a parachute on your back that you absolutely, positively trust to work 100% of the time that you deploy it. You just call it something different.

I have no figures, but with the complexity of a skydiving rig compared to a base rig (more flaps, freebag) my gut feeling tells me that a skydive reserve canopy is more prone to malfunctions then a base canopy. Of course, this is all open to debate.

Ronald

Chance of fatality in base compared to skydiving!

if you go trough the list you will see!

Fatality by experience!
Fatality by equipment!
Fatality by landing area!
Fatality by object!
Fatality by bad judgement!
Fatality by taking to much risk!
Fatality by coincidence!

Then you can see for yourselves what kind of path you would like to choose! Most of the fatalities have some mix of the above!

There is not many fatalities left by coincidence or just bad luck!

I seem to remember reading a study that had been done on BASE jumping, primarily big wall, and it concluded that on average, every 2400 jumps a death occurs. They calculated a 0.04% chance of fatality of every jump. Whether or not big wall jumping is more or less dangerous than other areas of base is for the experienced jumpers here to debate...
http://www.basekjerag.com/ used to have a page of statistics, and showed that some years were fatality free yet had thousands of jumps, while other years were not so injury free. The skydiving average is around every 100,000 - 110,000 I believe, though this depends which country you are skydiving in.

I want one of what you're jumping.

Gus

Yeah ... Life is fatal

It should make you think (scare you). Know what you are getting into.

The statistics about the fuckups of jumpers that have gone before me don't affect the outcome of my next jump.

My choices do.

Presently 9% of active Australian jumpers in the past have died BASEjumping. If we suddenly had an influx of another 120 jumpers then those statistics would half.

Does that mean that if there were another 120 newbies here then somehow my chances of dying would be halved??? Do I currently have a 1/10 chance of going-in on my next jump?? I think not.

g.