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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Was on holiday with seven-months pregnant girlfriend
- Greek emergency services were
unable to rescue the north Londoner - He was an experienced
base-jumper who had completed more than 40 solo jumps
By
Nick Mcdermott
08:35 EST, 11 June 2012
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19:31 EST, 11 June 2012
A British tourist spent three hours trapped on a cliff calmly chatting to his girlfriend on the phone before a gust of wind blew him 230ft to his death.
Jake Simkins’ parachute became tangled on the cliff face while he was base-jumping on a Greek island.
The 41-year-old called his girlfriend, who is almost seven months pregnant, at a nearby hotel to raise the alarm.
Tragic: Jake Simkins spent three hours trapped on a cliff calmly chatting to his girlfriend on the phone before a gust of wind blew him 230ft to his death
Failure: Greek emergency services were unable to rescue the London Underground worker, who fell to Navagio beach on Zante after a gust of wind dragged his parachute off the cliff face
But Greek emergency services were
unable to rescue the London Underground worker, who fell to Navagio
beach on Zante after a gust of wind dragged his parachute off the cliff
face.
As he dangled hundreds of feet above
the rocks on the island – also known as Zakynthos – Mr Simkins made
calls from his mobile to reassure partner Anita that he was not badly
hurt after hitting the cliff and had only injured his leg.
A Greek worker who was alongside Anita contacted the emergency services, but fire crews failed to reach Mr Simkins.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said: ‘He was speaking to her constantly and letting her know he was okay.
‘He was calm, and they were even joking. Jake asked for the emergency services to throw him a rope, so he could climb down.
‘Surely three hours was enough time for the fire service to find a rope and get it to him?’
Accident: The man was stuck for three hours as emergency services tried to rescue him from these cliff faces at Navagio beach after he base jumped with a parachute
Antonis Potamitis, who runs tour
boats to the bay and had collected Mr Simkins following other jumps,
said he had repeatedly called the fire service and begged them to bring a
specialist climbing team from Athens.
He added: ‘It was a terrible tragedy. Jake was a really good man, and knew what he was doing, but somehow ended up on the rocks.
‘I asked the local fire chief to call for specialist back up, but he wouldn’t listen.
‘And even though three hours passed
and he was hanging 70 metres above the rocks, they didn’t even get a
rope down. How is that possible?’
Mr Simkins was pronounced dead after
his fall on Friday evening. His partner was taken to hospital suffering
from shock, although she was discharged on Sunday and his since flown
back to Britain.
The pair were hoping to get married following the birth of their child.
A local on the island said: ‘She was
in complete shock. She could hardly speak for the first day. But then
it is to be expected. She came on holiday with her partner, and she left
without him.’
Mr Simkins’ partner was too upset to speak yesterday when she answered the door of his family home in north London.
Friends said Mr Simkins, who worked
as a signal technician for London Underground, was an experienced
base-jumper who had undertaken more than 40 solo jumps.
He had also parachuted down to Navagio beach – known as ‘shipwreck bay – on three occasions before his fatal fall.
Base-jumping is an extreme sport in
which participants leap from a fixed point before using a parachute at
the last minute to break their fall.
The word ‘base’ is an acronym of the
four points from which they can leap: buildings, antennas, spans
(bridges) and earth (cliffs).
Before his trip to Greece, Mr Simkins posted a message on Facebook, writing: ‘Can’t wait. June can’t come quick enough!’
A Dutch tourist who witnessed the accident said the parachute seemed stuck on the rocks.
Corne van der Eerden said: ‘We heard a
flapping sound and saw what we thought was a guy sky-diving or
parachuting. He crashed into the wall.
‘I shouted out to him and he said he thought he had broken his leg.
‘He said he had his mobile phone on
him and was going to call his wife. I told him to be careful but he said
he was going to hang on tight.’
A spokesman for the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office said: ‘We can confirm the death of a British
national on June 8 in Greece. We are providing consular assistance to
the family.’
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3 Hours to get to him?
That is the exact beach we were thinking of going to this summer. Not now.
– Mo mo, UK, 11/06/2012 15:00
I wouldn’t bother…it’s a very shingly beach, painful to walk on, only accessible by boat and crammed full of sightseeing tourists who paid a fortune to see the rusting graffitied shipwreck.
Very sad story, RIP Jake.
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Mo Mo,that beach cannot be accessed by land only by sea,It was one of the ports of call,to see the shipwreck, when I was running jeep safari tours on the island 20 years ago.
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You do understand that this is an isolated beach accessed by boat only. The report does not specify when and who called the emergency services, which in theory should come from the mainland, adding to the delay.
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From what I know when I went there years ago, this beach is only accessible by boat. Maybe they don’t have air rescue services in Greece.
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Desperately sad and so cruel that he met his death in such beautfiul surroundings. My heart goes out to his family and unborn child. RIP Jake.
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3 hours to rescue him? Surely something could have been done in less time. Poor man.
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Is base jumping like that legal? I dont know how it works. But to me it doesnt seem smart to parachute off a cliff like that! Did he have any experience prior to that? Very sad. Now he leaves his wife and child behind.
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Base jumping when your girlfriend’s seven month’s pregnant?
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How sad. What will the poor wife and the kid do now? I wish people had a bit more common sense.
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3 Hours to get to him?
That is the exact beach we were thinking of going to this summer. Not now.
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