A 29-year-old champion skydiver was killed in Texas whereas making an attempt a high-risk touchdown.
Melissa Porter, from Perth, Australia, was testing the “swooping” manoeuvre on 24 June when she had a tough touchdown and fell into shallow water, ABC 13 Houston reported.
Witnesses stated her parachute was deployed however she was too near the bottom, in accordance with information.com.au.
Ms Porter, who gained gold on the Australian Skydiving Championships earlier this 12 months, was rushed to hospital the place she was pronounced {dead}.
ABC 13 Houston stated investigators did not discover any blunt pressure trauma to her physique and have been uncertain if she had suffered a medical emergency through the dive.
Ms Porter’s mom Vonnie advised Australia’s 9NEWS: “She’s my child and she or he’s not coming dwelling.”
She stated her daughter liked the game.
“That was her comfortable place. She’ll perpetually be within the sky roaming the world now.”
Ms Porter labored as an teacher at Skydive Spaceland Houston.
Swooping includes a sequence of adverse manoeuvres that permit skydivers to “swoop” at excessive speeds over the bottom or water earlier than levelling off shortly for the touchdown.
Melissa Porter
Pic: Instagram/melissa.can.do.it
Australia’s Division of International Affairs and Commerce advised the New York Publish it was “offering consular help to the household of an Australian lady who died in america”.
“We ship our deepest condolences to the lady’s household,” the division stated.
Ms Porter broke an Australian girls’s total-break sequential report in Might when she accomplished the “2 level 23 approach”, in accordance with information.com.au.
She advised the Sound Telegraph, after profitable the Australian championships together with her skydiving associate Josh Tassicker: “It was a shock once we took gold nevertheless it’s been wonderful – it positively makes me need to compete additional.”