Posted on 03/25/2021 3:35:30 PM PDT by simpson96
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Lexi Bradshaw remembers Timothy "Tim" Ackerman as a thrill-seeker who loved being a dad.
Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident and Bradshaw's ex-husband, died Sunday evening during a BASE jump from the 23rd floor of the Sunrise Beach Resort on Front Beach Road, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department.
Authorities suspect his parachute malfunctioned as he fell.
Timothy "Tim" Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident who died in a BASE jumping accident Sunday evening, is seen with his 10-year-old daughter, Evie, and his 8-year-old son, Grayson.
"He 100% would not have done this if he thought for a second it wouldn't end well. It was not on purpose," said Bradshaw, 32, also of PCB. "He was happy, he was full of life (and) he sort of lived every day to the fullest as much as he could. He loved his friends and he loved his children more than anything in the world."
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"He was a great friend, he was a great dad and he was just an amazing person," she said. "I think he just wanted to make his mark and do something amazing and out of the ordinary and he did. It just didn't go how he had planned."
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Very few normal insurance policies cover “dangerous” activities.
American Paratrooper - Blood on the Risers (Gory Gory What a Helluva Way to Die) Lyrics
Don't you have to have pretty significant airflow just to pull the parachute out of the pack? Then you need more to inflate it... don't you hang like 20' below the canopy also? So that gives you 230-20 = 210 feet. To get going 80 mph you need four seconds, and in four seconds you fall... let's see... 1/2 times 32 * 4 squared... 256 feet.
He needs to fall 26' farther than the height of the building just to get up enough speed to get the parachute to deploy. No wonder he became a pancake.
Does it show? Work’s been a little slow the last few months. But the way the Deep State is running things in Washington, things are looking up for another financial crisis in the near term.
He regretted it for about ,4 seconds
My dad had that song on an album of paratrooper songs. Haven’t heard it since I was a kid. Forgot it was called Blood on the Risers.
He was a philanthropist who made the world just a tiny bit smarter.
“23 floors would be 230 ft on the low end.”
Don’t they usually leave out floor 13?
I think that may have been the problem.
Nice post
Rare on scold I told you so forum
It’s not thrilling if it isn’t potentially deadly.
Thank you!
It makes sense that basically an umbrella can’t open all the way if you try to open it right next to a building.
Skydiving must be exhilarating. My daughter always wanted to do it but she has severe scoliosis...did not realize it until it was too late...so she now has a metal rod up her spine. And her back always hurts.
Two doctors; two different ideas about whether or not she should skydive.
Thank God that she doesn’t like drugs...otherwise she could get addicted to something.
I was thinking bungee jumping.
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