An experienced skydiver has died after a jump went tragically wrong Sunday night.
The skydiver was meant to land safely in the Arbutus Meadows area, just outside of Parksville.VICTORIA -- An experienced skydiver, with over 1,000 previous jumps, died Sunday evening after his landing went tragically wrong.
According to the RCMP, a 34-year-old man from the Victoria area died after a miscalculation on his landing.The owner of the skydiving company involved says the parachutist was attempting an extremely complex landing maneuver called “swooping”. “The impact was catastrophic and the parachutist, a 34-year-old male from Victoria, succumbed to his injuries immediately,” said Skydive Vancouver Island owner, Gord Gauvin in a statement.
Swooping is when a jumper turns their parachute and themselves towards the ground to gather speed at a low altitude. At the last moment the pilot then uses controls on the parachute to stop the freefall and glide close to the ground. “The parachutist had a high amount of experience with this maneuver and was a coach and instructor within the sport of Skydiving,” said Gauvin.The skydiver was meant to land in a field in the Arbutus Meadows area just outside of Parksville, but police say something went wrong and he crashed into the ground at a high rate of speed.“We are devastated,” Gauvin told CTV News Vancouver Island.
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