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A Navy SEAL Team member died Sunday after his parachute failed to open during a demonstration over the Hudson River. A Navy spokesman said the accident occurred shortly after noon Sunday near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. The Navy said the parachutist was rescued from the water by the Coast Guard and local fire department responders who were on standby; he was pronounced dead at a hospital at 1:10 p.m. One witness, photographer Joe Shine, told NJ.com that the parachutist seemed to realize that the chute wouldn't open and cut himself loose so that he would land in the Hudson River. The parachutist was a member of an elite Navy parachute team called the Leap Frogs. Navy and Coast Guard members were participating in the program. He wasn't identified pending notification of his family. The cause of the parachute malfunction is under investigation. NJ.com reported that the parachute landed in a Jersey City parking lot and was being examined by local police. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...fleet-week-show.html | ||
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Fair winds sailor. _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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Wow! How in the hell? So sad.  Q | |||
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Dammit. RIP, sailor. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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RIP Sailor. Prayers for your family. Officers lives matter! | |||
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So Sad! RIP NRA Life member NRA Certified Instructor "Our duty is to serve the mission, and if we're not doing that, then we have no right to call what we do service" Marcus Luttrell | |||
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Just heard. Awful news. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Damn. RIP. dont they have back up chutes??? | |||
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It was probably a low-opening combat drop. They offer you a reserve chute, but everyone knows if something goes wrong, you'll never get a chance to use it. Most guys just refuse it. He's not the first to go this way. That's some kind of composure. Cutting away your dead parachute so you can actually over-shoot your landing target and hit a river, giving yourself the best chance of surviving. | |||
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how low do they open on those HALO jumps? | |||
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RIP Sir. What a tragedy. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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Wouldn't know the lowest they go, but I've heard of an actual 500 ft combat drop (Rangers) into Panama. | |||
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Tragic. RIP sailor. | |||
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A friend of mine did HALO training some years ago and he told me that they open at 400 ft. ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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Question: I read this last night, and then again this morning: Video taken by ABC station WABC-TV showed part of the parachute coming down after the parachutist separated from his chute and landed in the water. Both articles state that he "cut away" from his chute. Those of you who jump, what possible scenerio could you encounter where you would feel the need to sepeate yourself from your chute prior to landing? ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Fair winds and following seas! RIP. Rod "Do not approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." John Deacon, Author I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no. | |||
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The only reason to cut away would be a malfunctioning main. But that's a decision you'd make with enough altitude. Hard to understand with a jumper this experienced unless he thought he could correct it and ate up altitude struggling with it. | |||
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Wow thats nuts. | |||
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