B.A.S.E Jumpers Leap Off The World's Tallest Building And . . . . . Survive!
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What a year it has been so far for world records - First 26-year old Travis Pastrana stuns the world with his amazing leap, then the world's tallest building finally opens its door and now, two skydivers set another record by leaping off it's 200th floor.
Nasr Al Niyadi and his trainer, Omar El Hegelan, both skilled skydivers, performed their record breaking jump on the afternoon of January 6th, after receiving permission from the building authorities.
The duo leaped from a giant crane that transported them 2,717ft. to the top of the building. Free falling at an amazing speed of 137mph for the first 10 seconds, they then glided down with a parachute for the next 80 seconds, and landed gracefully at the Burj Park Island, where Nasr was greeted by his five kids.
Nasr said that while he was a little nervous before the descent, this ranked as the best skydiving fall he has done since he started in 2002. And he would know, for Nasr has over 2500 skydiving jumps to his credit including, a recent record-breaking one, which involved jumping off Mt.Everest.
Skydiving, also known as Parachuting, was first made popular by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797. Over the years, the sport has been further refined into various categories. Nasr and his trainer are experts at B.A.S.E jumping. The acronym stands for Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges), and Earth (cliff) - All the fixed objects that these jumpers use, to leap off.
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- lexiealmost 15 yearsradical dood!!!!!
- lolalmost 15 yearsi like chicken
- melany5almost 15 yearsThat must have been scary. They are very brave men to do that at the 200th floor of a really big building. That is impressive and that only took 10 seconds. Very cool.
- Elvis5almost 15 yearsOMG they went 137 mph for 10 seconds WOW! I thought they wouldn't make it. That was scary.
- Deina 5almost 15 yearsWow they are brave men. They say that face jumping is really dangerous. It might have been scary at first. That is really amazing.
- Erik5almost 15 yearsThat was so cool. They jumped off the world's tallest building and survived. I wish I can see it in real life.
- christina5almost 15 yearsI think that the jump was really fast , I never knew that anyone could do that with such speed.2,717 feet is alot of feet for a human to jump off of.that was really cool but he should of let his parachute out a little sooner.
- daniel5almost 15 yearsWow that man jumped down that building. That was pretty scary when he went down. I hope more people could jump out a really big building.
- jesse5almost 15 yearsThat is relly cool and I wold be scared out of my mind. Thay are really cool and crazy. Also their are no limits in ski diving.
- keilyn5almost 15 yearsWow that is soooo cool!! I cannot imagine that those people did that . I would not do that in my life.
