| Date | Location | Category | Age | # Jumps | AAD?/RSL? | Dropzone.com Report | Dropzone.com Discussion | |
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| 02/09/2001 | Skydive Green County, OH | MED | 69 | 1300 | ?/? | |||
| Description: I was the one who had organized the raft dive that the jumper was on. I placed him in the middle of the raft between two pretty ladies since he said he had never done that before. This was also to be his first raft dive. The exit of the raft went great but we lost 3 people from the outside of the raft. At this point the last 2 of us holding on slid to the middle of the raft and held it stable. The raft was rock solid in the air and I got the chance to smile at each jumper in the raft, the guy on the other side and the video guy. The jumper was waving and geeking the camera until 6500 feet when I broke off the raft and proceded to track away. I opened high at 4500 feet. I turned around in time to see the raft tumble free and the jumpers track away. I watched him pitch and have a beautiful opening. At that point he was in a big lazy circle. I headed back to the DZ and spiriled down. A group of us watched a few jumpers land off and went to go get them. He was one of the jumpers. Seth and I met Matt at the road and proceded to go find him. CPR was started by me and Matt assiasted, an EMT arrived and took over for Matt. A Doctor was next on the sceen and really helped organize every thing. Seth (Wildblue) did a great job of getting the right people to him as fast as possible. EMT's and sheriffs were on the sceen in less then 10 minutes. Careflight arrived on the scene less then 20 minutes after the call was put in and they decieded since no pulse was found during the 20 minutes by any EMT's or the doctor to pronounce him dead at about 6:51. | ||||||||
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| USA Description: USPA received very little regarding this fatality. Apparently, this jumper had made a raft dive and was found in a field after landing under his main canopy. He appatently did not flare for the landing. | ||||||||
| USA Conclusions:The post-mortem examination determined the cause of this fatality to be a heart attack. The jumper had deployed the main canopy and died sometime during the canopy descent. Jumpers need to be aware that skydiving may place additional strain on the cardiovascular system, increasing the chances of heart problems for those already at risk. |
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| Name | Lawrence J. Massillo | |||||||