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Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL63
- Object:
- Antenna
- Cause of death:
- Low pull
- Date:
- 29. 05. 2002
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
- United States of America › Florida › Antenna Florida
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Lee Skypunk Werling
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- American
- Age:
- 27
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny Winds light and variable Low level clouds
- Factors:
- Extracted Pilot Chute too late Focusing on filming
Description
Reported by a jumper on the load as a three way with two people facing away from the antenna, and Lee doing a floater launch facing inwards. Jumper #1 is to do a 6 second delay, jumper #2 an 8 second delay, and Lee, with camera, is going ten seconds. Everything went as planned until jumper #2 deployed at 8 seconds. Lee continued filming on his back for an additional 3 full seconds before going face to earth. One second later he disappeared into the fog. Three seconds later jumper #2 heard the beginnings of Lee's deployment and then a thump. Lee died under a partially inflated canopy. The weather conditions initially are a layer of fog about 300 feet off the ground. However, when jumper #2 lands the fog has extended almost all the way to the ground. He believes Lee is expecting to come out of the fog before deploying. Lee is very current on this particular tower. He was 27 years old
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