krkeenan 0 #1 November 3, 2003 Since this is the place for good CRW stories, here is one from Lk. Wales last week that turned out to be one of the strangest I've been on. An unusual occurrence in a CRW event, but with no injuries. I was docking on my teammate, Martin, in 4-way rotations, and had a semi-wrap. It wasn't too bad, a lot like many such docks in rotations. (At least on our team) It's fairly easy to get the canopy sorted out into a clean stack and continue the rotations. Somehow, in the course of this wrap, however, his cutaway handle was pulled. At this point, I was the bottom of the 4-way, with Martin above me. That dropped him into my canopy, and released both of us from the stack above. We started falling, with him in my canopy, and me spinning around the entanglement. Now, it never occurred to me that his canopy had been released, since that is the worst thing he could have done in a case like that. I thought he was still attached to his canopy, and I just couldn't see it. I thought we had been dropped from the remaining stack. The indicated thing for me at that point would be to perform my cutaway. We were spinning so fast, that g-forces made it hard to get my hand up to my cutaway handle. I finally reached it, peeled the velcro and looked back up at Martin to see how he was doing. He was upside down with his foot wrapped in lines, and just then he kicked off his shoe. The shoe went flying one way, and Martin went the other way. My canopy popped open, and I was left hanging there with the cutaway handle in my hand. "Dude", I thought, "That was weird". This was a near miss of a big problem. If I had chopped the main with him tangled in it, it is questionable whether he would have been able to get loose to pull his reserve. It was only luck that I didn't cut it away, because I was fully intending to. Luckily, the only casualties were our team's score, Martin's shoe and his freebag. CRW Skies, Kevin "It's always something..." Roseanne Rosanadanna====================== Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the Wind, the Sun, or the Rain... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
