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skydiverek
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:22 AM
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What is a story behing THIS photo?
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diverdriver
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:29 AM
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Re: [skydiverek] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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A very low mr. bill? Looks like the top jumper is holding the D bag still. Maybe? Slider down?
Wait! Wait! I know! Bill Booth's early test on the skyhook. He abandoned it when it was realized cost prohibitive to carry the extra jumper with you all the time.
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CSpenceFLY
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:32 AM
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Re: [skydiverek] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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I'd say a wrap of some sort and the low guy came loose. I'm betting it left a mark.
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diverdriver
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:39 AM
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Re: [CSpenceFLY] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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Ok before someone else's kicks my ass I apologize. I don't know the end result of this photo and I'm not making light if it was this jumper demise. It was insensitive and I am sorry.
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mtbriles
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:51 AM
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Re: [skydiverek] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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Damn 
That looks like a bad day.
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ryan_d_sucks
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Nov 9, 2009, 2:13 PM
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Re: [mtbriles] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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Holy shit! Maybe move this thread to the Skydiving History and Trivia forum.. Maybe someone in there could shed some light on it. I'm interested to know as well.
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billvon
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Nov 9, 2009, 4:40 PM
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Low collision that just cleared?
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diablopilot
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Nov 9, 2009, 7:38 PM
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Is that kallend?
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NickDG
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Nov 9, 2009, 10:38 PM
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Re: [skydiverek] What is a story behing THIS photo?
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It's a double direct bag B.A.S.E. jump from a 150-foot ship channel bridge here in So Cal from the late 1980s.
We called them rodeo jumps. The top guy was direct bagged while holding the bottom guy's direct bag. Nobody hurt, it's over water.
I made a ton of jumps from that bridge, but always at night!
NickD 
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NickDG
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Nov 10, 2009, 1:04 PM
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I had to go through some boxes of stuff to find it but here's the original photo and caption from BASELine (a BASE magazine by Phil Smith, BASE 1) published in December of 1988 . . .
NickD
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shah269
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Nov 10, 2009, 1:36 PM
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You guys..........what can one say?
Need a hobby?
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Nov 10, 2009, 1:38 PM
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Hi Nick
Was 1988 after folks stopped used FF rigs for base?
I'm guessing it was since page you attached had a ad for a tert. canopy
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NickDG
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Nov 10, 2009, 9:11 PM
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Yes, most of us were using BASE rigs by then. But no one was really mass producing them until the early 90s. So we made our own. I spent a very long weekend picking the stitches out of a skydiving rig to remove the containers. Then I sewed on a 4-flap Velcro closed BASE container. It was ugly but it worked . . .
NickD
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virgin-burner
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Nov 11, 2009, 1:21 AM
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save the packjob! while you're at it.. 
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Sletzer
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Nov 11, 2009, 8:23 AM
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Holy Hell!
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virgin-burner
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Nov 11, 2009, 10:02 AM
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i do have big balls; but i'd NEVER have balls THIS big!!!
EVERYONE LANDS UNDER THEIR OWN PARACHUTE!!!
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maxmadmax
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Nov 11, 2009, 5:09 PM
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That's Packing Pommy John!
A vivid personality.
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virgin-burner
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Nov 11, 2009, 11:33 PM
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fucking brilliant; and very dangerous..
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