Which of the following dangerous/semi-dangerous activities have you participated in?

I have done rappelling with my cousin. I was a teen. I'd like to bungee jump and sky dive.

I once went Cliff Diving, but I was so scared I don't think I would do it again

It wasn't really bungee jumping but the bungee swing. I marked bungee jumpng because it was the closest thing.

Rappelling, climbing, and caving (but no cave diving). Someday I hope to do hang-gliding.

I have done Reverse Bungee Cage and Skydiving. I have a video of my skydive where another guy with a video cam taped the whole thing. He hung outside of the plane (14,000 ft) while I did three forward flips out of the plane, did a 120mph free-fall for 60 seconds, and then floated carelessly to the ground where my camera guy was already waiting to film my 'tippy-toe' landing. It was by far the best thing I have ever done. I intend on doing it again. Then, they made my video right there with all this cool equipment. They cut it, put in music, did some special effects. When we took of in the (tin can plane on a dirt runway) the music playing was Crazy by Seal. Then, of course, when the video switched to me just getting ready to jump, I had them put in Jump by Van Halen. It is such a great video. I think I was high for at least two months and I am all tingly talking about it now!!! I am ready!
The reverse bungee was pretty cool. I forget how many G's it is, but it's fun, too with a little scary anticipation.

As in just diving off a cliff?
No wonder you were scared.

Only rock climbing and repelling, which kind of go together, eh. I don't consider that very dangerous, unless you are essentially mountain climbing.

I've done alt of these, cave diving, cliff diving(well really I jumped feet first), rappelling, skydiving, and white water rafting, I wish I could do all these things alot more offten.

only white water rafting.

Only white-water rafting--my senior class trip in high school was a week-long white-water rafting trip on the Kern River.

None of the things listed, but I have gone parasailing and snorkeling.

I've never done any of these and don't plan to either! I'm far too chicken!

Rock climbing and white water rafting only.

The only thing remotely "dangerous" I have ever done is go mat-surfing when there were "red tides" and strong undertows (which dragged me under and I nearly lost the mat's rope). That was many years ago near Santa Monica, CA

Rock Climbing, Rappelling, Scuba Diving... there was one diving experience that came pretty close to ending my life.

I like all diving....and Biking too !

Parasailing sounds fun, thats one I'd like to get out and try this coming summer.

Hang gliding, rock climbing and spelunking (caving, for those of you who didn't know)

It was great fun! We went all along the shore in Cancun, Mexico, and the view was breathtaking!

That does sound breathtaking, but I'll probably have to settle with the Lake of the Ozarks here in Missouri.

That would be beautiful, too!

None, but I'd love to go bungee jumping.

Yea theres alot of beautiful scenery there too, and I can be there in a couple of hrs. I'm ready for summer already.

Never done anything like this.

Tell me about it! We have like ten inches of snow here in Akron, Ohio! ;-

You know here in KCMO all the snow has went north or south everytime we haven't had any YET, it was even 70° the other day.

Wow! I'll be there on the next flight!

I've climbed, weaselled, orienteered, bridge built, and swum in a really cold lake in the lake district. All the outdoor activity enthusiasts move to Sheffield when they leave school so that they can have access to the countryside around here, then they need to make money so they train as teachers. Every schoolchild in rural Sheffield will have done all the things I have.

What's rappelling by the way?

= jumping down cliff faces with ropes. Quite fun.

How's that different to bungee jumping?

I've done none of these things but I would like to.

We'd know it as abseiling. I did ask scrubnurse to change the option during qual to cater for the non-US people.

Ah, that makes sense now

Driving my car is a dangerous activity!

But,yeah! I've rock climbed when I was younger.

An outdoor activity that I do enjoy, is hiking & exploring.I would like to cave dive but,I'm too chicken.

Ahhhh! Spelunking! I was wondering what the name of that activity was.I love spelunking!!!! Thanks for the info on the correct naming of that activity.

**makes clucking noises at Kate**

**straps you to my back & plunges us into the deep dark blue waters of cave diving**

**turns around & hands you the underwater camera with LOTS of film**

Glug! Glug! Glug! (translation-Shark, shark, shark!)

In rappelling, the ropes aren't stretchy, and you slide down them in a controlled fashion. It's how mountain climbers get back down. Basically you jump a way from the cliff face, and let loose a few feet of rope until your feet meet the cliff again. There are two types of rope control mechanisms these days. The old type stops sliding when you yank the rope and offers better control. I prefer the new type where you have to pull a lever to let loose slack, because I'm afraid of falling unconscious in which case you go the Wile E coyote route. With the old type, you can have the person below you pull your rope to stop you too (or for that matter remotely lower you in case you lose it). With the new type they'd have climb back up to rescue you.

**takes my trusty shark harpoon gun & shoots the sharks around us**

Take pictures Kate!!!!!!!!! Hurry!!!

Ah yes, abseiling One of my friends at uni is from Sheffield and is *really* into climbing, I've got to hear plenty about it from him

Oops! I dropped the camera!

Darn it!! I'll get it! Never mind...............
**whips out another throw-a-way camera hands it to you**

**Suction cups it to you face** There now that's better!

Now I can't see!

It's okay! Just hold still & I snap the shots.

Waaaaah!!! I wanna see the sharks!

You don't need to see the sharks,Kate! I'll show you the pictures after the film is developed.Now stay still while I shoot the pics!

How can you shoot pictures with the camera attached to my face?

I ripped it off & attached it to your shoulder. Now hold still,Kate!

Now I can take this & devlope it.

I guess someone probably already told you this since I have been gone. It's when you go off like a cliff with a rope, backwards, and kinda 'jump' down the cliff or maybe more like 'hop'. You have the rope in a contraption around you and kinda go 'boing boing boing' and you go down. make sense? it would be someting like how you get down after rock climbing.? I hope this makes sense...

I am sorry about that. I had a car accident soon after creating this survey. I still dont even know how my other ones went - if they needed fixing, I am very sorry everyone. I really would have been more than happy to make the addition. I will go try to find them now...

Hokay!

Hey, don't worry about it! There have been times when I've had a survey in qual and thought "damn, I've forgotten to add X option" but its passed before I've had chance to get to it. We can't be on SC 24 hours a day. I'm sorry about your car accident, I hope it wasn't too serious. And to be fair, I had no idea that abseiling was called something else until I read this survey, so I can imagine you having no idea that rappelling had another name either.

Thank you! No, the accident surely could have been much worse - I do hurt like hell, though.
You are right. I didn't know there was another name for it. I doubt that I will forget it!

I'll let you know what you look like fearing a shark......

Thanks a bunch!

Can't seem to get this dang film out of the camera. Oops! I exposed the film.

Oh man! Does that mean we have to try again?

Go ahead I'll jump in with the camera. You go first! **pushes you in**

Hey, I wasn't ready yet! I still have my street clothes on and my diving mask wasn't in place!

**pulls you out(again)tosses you a towel**

Oh,alright!! Slow poke!

**taps her foot impatiently**

Hey...try to be a little more patient! I'm old and decrepit ya know!

I would like to try these kinds of things.

Of those listed, I've only been white water rafting.

However I also do all kinds of dangerous but mundane things, such as driving cars, using power tools, carrying unwieldy objects up and down staircases, talking to strangers on the internet, etc.

**takes your cane & hands you the keys to a brand spanking new RASCAL**

Thanks a bunch. My knee has been hurting a lot lately.

Illicit drug use and unprotected-unmarried sex.

Babe I've posted a message today 2/13/03 in Forum explaining my long absence from SC. Go there...........

I've been there already and posted you a reply. Again, my deepest sympathies to you and yours.

Love ya!!!

i'm not going to pay money to have a harrowing experience, it happens enough by accident.

Well gee sometimes just walking can be dangerous HA!

skydiving

Interestingly enough and unregretabley, I haven't done you.

Well, I chose the Rock Climbing, but I have never done it like climbing up a sheer wall, more like the casual stuff. Nothing extreme about it. It is still dangerous, though on a scale with the other type I would rate it real low.

Have you done rapelling? Quite a blast in my opinion.

Well, actually, I have a fear of heights, so I doubt I would do that. It sounds fun until I think of how far away the ground is.

It's definitely not for those with fear of heights. Have you been caving? Does the same fear apply underground? I enjoy walking on railroad trestles or wire mesh bridges, watching the ground below as I walk. It's like walking in mid-air.

Well, again not the proper way. I do know that exploring caves is dangerous. When I lived in Denver, a group of high school kids (on their own)climbed over a barrier inside a cave so they could explore it. They were quickly overcome by cave gas almost as soon as they made it over. I've never done any serious caving. Haven't had the opportunity. No, I don't have a fear of dark enclosed places. I'm not claustrophobic. I believe my fear of heights is associated with a car accident that occurred when I was very young. We lost control on a bridge and well, we left the road.

In most serious caving, ropes and rapelling are involved again. At least when one falls off a mountain, they fall closer to society and medical care. In a cave, you always have to wonder if you can get back up. My favorite climbing cave had a passage between chambers called the corkscrew. You had to decide whethar to start slithering through on your belly or back, because you would end up on the opposite, poking into the next chamber a dozen feet up it's wall.

Wow, sounds exciting.

Oops, I forgot I have been White Water Rafting, twice. It was a lot of fun! I love the water.

Sounds exciting and scary!...I was watching this show on Discovery awhile back, um can't remember where they were at but like Alaska maybe, somewhere were there's icebergs. One of the 'bergs had a cave and they climbed inside, it looked like it would be very fascinating indeed! A winter wonder-sea-land.

I don't think I'd feel safe in ice caves. Ice changes a bit too quick for my tastes. I want to try parasailing sometime though.

Oh that would be nice...I can just picture it!

None but would like to hang glide/skydive some time. I think that would be a thrill. No urge to ever bungee, rock climb, or any diving.

i wana do them all