http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/world-record-base-jump-from-6600m/ Aerial awesomeness. Served fresh, daily. Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/world-record-base-jump-from-6600m/#comment-1496 William DiGiacomo Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:04:00 +0000 http://www.iloveskydiving.org/?p=616#comment-1496 Just noticed something at the 34 second mark.  Just a safety note for everyone else out there. 
 
As a skydiver & former climber the correct point to attach a safety line into a rig would be directly to the three-ring attachment point ring itself with a locking carabineer (not to the three-rings on the riser but to the main ring attached to the harness).  They both have their safety lines tied to their chest straps.
 
The chest strap is not a load bearing strap; it merely keeps the other load bearing straps where they need to be and helps keeps the wearer in the harness.  In a Rescue situation, a jumper could easily be air-lifted by connecting the lift line directly to either of the three-ring attachment points on the skydiving harness.

]]> http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/world-record-base-jump-from-6600m/#comment-282 Tom Brown Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:55:00 +0000 http://www.iloveskydiving.org/?p=616#comment-282 Wow, 21,667 MSL is up in the “death zone”, where the lack of oxygen starts killing you.  I’m not a wingsuiter, but it looked to me like it even took a long time for their suits to inflate in the thinner air – they must have had quite a fall rate there when they launched !  Not your usual day trip in the Swiss Alps….

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