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From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Bungee from plane (again?)
Keywords: pointless, stupid, skydiving
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.000408.18446@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 91 00:04:08 GMT
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Since we had so much FUN discussing it last time (??) I though
would pass on this posting that I got on GEnie the other day:

>    For anyone interested, a friend of mine, John Kockelman,
>recently made a world record bungee jump. He exited a hot air
>balloon piloted by his brother Peter. His bungee was 500-feet
>long.
> That makes it the longest bungee jump ever. 
>
>    Freefall photographer, Cris Conkright jumped with John and
>they both stayed relative for 6 seconds. The bungee stretched to
>1000 feet and the rebounds, as could be imagined, were
>impressive.
>
>    Also in the balloon was well known adventure writer Craig
>Vetter. Craig will probably write about the jump for "OUTSIDE"
>magazine. The jump was also filmed by the TV show, "The WEST."
>
>    When the bungee came to rest, John used a modified version
>of the three ring release to cutaway. After a short delay he
>used a Vector deployed Raven II to complete the jump.
>
>   C-YA
>   NICK [DIGIOVANN]

For those interested, Nick is editor of BASE magazine and the 
proud owner of BASE # 194.  (Hope I didn't screw that up Nick!)



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