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Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuiter and software developer. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston died while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States.
San Francisco, California (September 8, 1984) - two base jumpers slam into the Golden Gate Bridge; Mexico City, Mexico (June 30, 1997) - an oil tanker is hit by a train and explodes; 27 August 15, 2008 St Augustine, Florida (March 26, 1985) - a pilot's wheel is stuck, forcing a mechanic to make a daring rescue
Corliss as a child, was diagnosed with counterphobia, a tendency where a person seeks out activities that they fear, rather than avoiding them.From young age, Corliss sought out things that would scare a normal child, including jumping off a high dive at 18 months and capturing live rattlesnakes by age 7 outside his family's New Mexico home.
Footage of the incident was captured by a live webcam. A container ship crashed into the structure at around 01:30am ET, causing a section of the 1.6-mile, four-lane bridge to tumble into the ...
A Boise bridge jumper sent two people to the hospital over the weekend after landing on their raft. Now, police are searching for him. Just after 4 p.m. on Saturday, a male jumper performed a ...
A base jumper attempted to jump off a local news station's TV tower in St. Louis, Missouri, but got a little tangled up in the process. The man ended up hanging at least 125 feet in the air off ...
Since 1993 he was well known as a BASE jumper. He won many awards and made many successful leaps, including a jump from Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, Troll Wall in Norway, and the Cave of the Swallows in Mexico. He even participated in making the world's record in jumping from fixed objects on 3 July 2004, when 30 jumpers leapt at the same ...
During AccuWeather's live broadcast, veteran storm chaser Aaron Jayjack was reporting from a bridge above a creek when a portion of the bridge collapsed, taking a man's SUV with it.