Posted on 04/21/2021 5:59:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
A recent parachuting accident in Washington left a Seattle man dead, according to KMAS.
A Facebook group called Kapowsin Skydivers said the man who died was 27-year-old Shaznee Riyal of Seattle. According to the Mason County Sheriff's Office, Riyal was jumping with Kapowsin Air Sports with a parachute in Shelton on April 11.
Chief Deputy Ryan Spurling said the skydiver performed a stunt too close to the ground, causing his body to slam "into the earth with great force." Officials said the impact killed Riyal.
The Federal Avian Administration is investigating the incident.
Riyal's family in Sri Lanka started a GoFundMe to support his family. The page said he was the "sole breadwinner" of his family, and this fatal jump was his 80th. As of Tuesday, April 20, the initiative has raised over $47,000.
Here's part of what was written about Riyal on the GoFundMe page:
Shaznee was known for three things: his sense of adventure, his ultra positivity, and his ability to make anyone, even a stranger, feel like a long-lost friend, in the same loving way he spoke my name after not seeing me for six months. He was a mountain biker, a hiker, a skydiver, a brilliant developer, a goofy friend, and a wonderful brother and son.
Gravity never fails.
That will get you every time. Darn gravity!
Death by selfie?
If you’re the sole breadwinner you shouldn’t be taking unnecessary chances. There are a lot of dangerous jobs but skydiving is recreational.
It’s not the fall that kills you. it’s the sudden stop at the end.
32ft per second per second.
Gravity
It’s the law
Same thing happened at the airport where I fly a jump plane; guy was hot-dogging it coming down and at about a hundred feet while spinning went horizontal with his ‘chute and wound up dumping the air from his sport ‘chute and came crashing down. Wonder if this guy did the same thing.
Okay, this lover of extreme sports has enough money to have sky-dived 80 times, but couldn’t afford a life insurance policy as the sole breadwinner of his family?
“The page said he was the ‘sole breadwinner’ of his family...”
Sometimes extreme sports IS a person’s career, and it would be tough to give it up if you were good at it.
But I can think of other famous extreme sportsters who died and left families, small children behind. It always bugged me, like “Hey, you have small children now...you don’t get to do this crazy stuff anymore!”
Sounds exactly like that.................
Here are pics of him https://www.forevermissed.com/shaznee-riyal/about
It was Covid...
Well... it IS Seattle
It seems to me the height of selfishness for someone with a family to be engaging in recreational activity that has the high potential for death even if you do everything right. I’m mainly thinking of rock climbers.
You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving. You need a parachute if you want to go skydiving twice.
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