Golden Gate Bridge...

[napanutt]

Pretty cool from the underside.

 

[JB in so cal]

Hope you brought lysol.!!!!!!

 

[lake p.a.l.]

The Bay was gorgeous yesterday. We had lunch in Oakland Estuary then picked up friends in SF. Ran out under the Gate then hustled home to Benicia before dark.
Are you guys headed out on a cruise?

 

[nowski]

You could have taken any powerboat to see the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge but no, you had to take a cruise ship didn't you... Have a Great Vacation...

 

[t&y]

Beautiful place. Also a premier location for suicide. Changed my perspective a bit after looking into it.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Beautiful place. Also a premier location for suicide. Changed my perspective a bit after looking into it.

Definitely hit terminal velocity before you reach the water.

 

[milkmoney]

Beautiful place. Also a premier location for suicide. Changed my perspective a bit after looking into it.

Some have lived through the jump [emoji202]

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[NorCalRiverRat]

Definitely hit terminal velocity before you reach the water.

The fatality rate of jumping is roughly 98% . One young man survived a jump in 1979, swam to shore, and drove himself to a hospital. The impact cracked several of his vertebrae. Sarah Rutledge Birnbaum, survived, but returned to jump again and died the second time.

 

[WhatExit?]

Beautiful place. Also a premier location for suicide. Changed my perspective a bit after looking into it.

If I was on that ship I'd wonder if some jumper was going to land on the ship and kill someone else

 

[Willie B]

...Love that bridge...

 

[Keymyster]

Maybe we should start outlawing bridges??

 

[lake p.a.l.]

I've driven under the Gate at least 25 times now and ALWAYS look up at least a few times as I approach. The water is always a mess in that area so paying attention to the water and boat traffic is your first priority but someone jumping is a concern.

 

[napanutt]

The Bay was gorgeous yesterday. We had lunch in Oakland Estuary then picked up friends in SF. Ran out under the Gate then hustled home to Benicia before dark.
Are you guys headed out on a cruise?

We got back Friday. Those pictures were when we left a week and a half ago.

 

[t&y]

Not to be a downer... but this is one of the documentary's on the Bridge. Sad, but reality.

 

[was thatguy]

Awesome B!
I forgot you told me you guys were going on the cruise!
Hope it was great!

 

[havasujeeper]

My ship passed the bridge at 0500 am so I lost some sleep to get this shot.

 

[napanutt]

My ship passed the bridge at 0500 am so I lost some sleep to get this shot. View attachment 622123

That’s about what time we rolled under the GG last Friday returning to port. We’re you on the same cruise?

 

[havasujeeper]

That’s about what time we rolled under the GG last Friday returning to port. We’re you on the same cruise?

No, we did the Coastal Cruise last year.

 

[Wheeler]

Definitely hit terminal velocity before you reach the water.

Effective, yes. terminal velocity, not even close.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Effective, yes. terminal velocity, not even close.

I believe a 200ft freefall is all you need to reach terminal velocity.

 

[Wheeler]

I believe a 200ft freefall is all you need to reach terminal velocity.

Today, I believe I'll trip over a kilo of thousand dollar bills. If I do, I'll buy you a new engine for the chug.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Well alright then. So no accurate distance to fall to TV, just conjecture, Noted.

I don't need your money, I have plenty of my own. I did need one of your live centers, but I bought one instead.

Brian

Today, I believe I'll trip over a kilo of thousand dollar bills. If I do, I'll buy you a new engine for the chug.

 

[was thatguy]

It’s estimated that over 1600 people have jumped to their deaths since the bridge opened in 1937.
That’s one every 2 1/2 weeks more or less.
However, last year 46 jumpers died.
That’s almost one a week. (About one every 8 days)
The golden gate is suicide central for sure.

 

[Wheeler]

Well alright then. So no accurate distance to fall to TV, just conjecture, Noted.

I don't need your money, I have plenty of my own. I did need one of your live centers, but I bought one instead.

Brian

Had I known you were in need of a live center, I wouldn't have converted my Royal into a plumb bob.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Had I known you were in need of a live center, I wouldn't have converted my Royal into a plumb bob.

I posted in the very thread you mentioned you had some. I believe I even tagged you.

Multi-purpose tools, I dig it.

Brian

 

[River Lynchmob]

Well alright then. So no accurate distance to fall to TV, just conjecture, Noted.

I don't need your money, I have plenty of my own. I did need one of your live centers, but I bought one instead.

Brian

Here you go..."Answer: "A typical skydiver in a spread-eagle position will reach terminal velocity after about 12 seconds, during which time they will have fallen around 450 m(approx 1,500 ft)." Found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall under Examples."

 

[wsuwrhr]

Here you go..."Answer: "A typical skydiver in a spread-eagle position will reach terminal velocity after about 12 seconds, during which time they will have fallen around 450 m(approx 1,500 ft)." Found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall under Examples."

interesting. GG is 800 foot tall or so bridge is 3/4 of the way down...so 200 foot above the water.

Bummer deal someone jumping off wont even know what TV feels like.

Brian

 

[pronstar]

Here you go..."Answer: "A typical skydiver in a spread-eagle position will reach terminal velocity after about 12 seconds, during which time they will have fallen around 450 m(approx 1,500 ft)." Found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall under Examples."

Hitting the water at full speed, spread-eagle, surely must be one of the worst ways to die...


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[Taboma]

After watching the video Wheeler posted, I'm curious. There's folks with cameras setup just waiting and watching to film jumpers ?

 

[rivrrts429]

After watching the video Wheeler posted, I'm curious. There's folks with cameras setup just waiting and watching to film jumpers ?

The Golden Gate is a Mecca for videographers, photographers, and the painting/drawing types. At any given moment there are hundreds of camera’s and people observing the bridge.

Not that hard to imagine how these people are captured making the leap.

 

[Taboma]

The Golden Gate is a Mecca for videographers, photographers, and the painting/drawing types. At any given moment there are hundreds of camera’s and people observing the bridge.

Not that hard to imagine how these people are captured making the leap.

Thanks, driven across it a couple of times, but SF isn't on my favorites list, so I know very little about it.
Although I spend a weekend in the Haight and Ashbury area during the late 60's (My recall is slightly blurry, I think I got laid, but I'm still alive, have my junk and waiting for that flashback -- so I could be wrong ) Drove a beat to shit VW van down Lombard Street too . After that weekend, figuring I'd done it all and survived, I saw no reason to go back

 

[bowtiejunkie]

After watching the video Wheeler posted, I'm curious. There's folks with cameras setup just waiting and watching to film jumpers ?

The video is credited as 'The Bridge', which is just edited parts of the full length documentary that t&y posted (post #14). I'm sure there's been a number of jumpers recorded otherwise though. The media in the Bay Area largely quit reporting suicide jumpers from the GG. The heartbreaking suicides from GG are the few reported 4 and 5 year old kids that were forced to jump or thrown off by the father and then the father jumped off as well. Makes you numb.

 

[Taboma]

The video is credited as 'The Bridge', which is just edited parts of the full length documentary that t&y posted (post #14). I'm sure there's been a number of jumpers recorded otherwise though. The media in the Bay Area largely quit reporting suicide jumpers from the GG. The heartbreaking suicides from GG are the few reported 4 and 5 year old kids that were forced to jump or thrown off by the father and then the father jumped off as well. Makes you numb.

Oh my, no, don't want to watch that --- but thanks for filling me in.

 

[bowtiejunkie]

Oh my, no, don't want to watch that --- but thanks for filling me in.

I don’t believe any of that is in the documentary “The Bridge”. I only read about those.

I also read the guy that founded Victoria’s Secret also jumped from GG.

For a bridge with such great beauty, there is certainly a contrasting dark side to it. They is supposed to be a netting of sorts installed to help save lives.

 

[BoatCop]

I spent a summer at Coast Guard Station San Francisco on Yerba Buena Island, between my ship being decommissioned and going to the Boating Safety gig. The Fort Point Station, right under the bridge, got the first call to jumpers, with us providing secondary response. Over that summer (1978) we had about 1/2 dozen calls for jumpers that were either talked down or were hoaxes. One guy DID jump, but hit the rocks and somehow survived.

 

[Keymyster]

Not the Golden Gate Bridge this time. Another bridge takes one fatality so far. Could be more. I said earlier we should outlaw bridges be for they kill us!!

 

[Deja_Vu]

Quite a few jump off of the Coronado bridge also.

 

[WhatExit?]

A good day would be learning that Nancy Pelosi jumped (or fell) off the GGB. But then I'd wish Diane Feinstein and Jerry Brown jumped with her