The answer that you want to hear is that the “Tandem BASE’ has had zero injuries or fatalities since helping pioneer Tandem BASE jumping. In fact, that is true worldwide of Tandem BASE jumping. With a combined 60 years of experience around parachuting, 35,000 skydives, and 15,000 BASE jumps we have had zero injuries or incidents.
When you hear something like, “BASE jumping is one of the most dangerous activities in the world,” the remark is NOT considering Tandem BASE jumping. It is specifically in regards to solo BASE jumpering which does not adhere to the same guidelines and protocols. Tandem BASE jumping is designed for jumpers with no experience meaning that we do not have to constantly push boundaries or try new things. We do the same protocols every jump. Although a passenger will be experiencing the absolute thrill of a lifetime, the Tandem BASE guide is simply working through the procedures that they have done thousands of times over the course of many years.To further increase the safety of the experience, we use the same parachute deployment method, “a static line deployment,” that the United States military uses. Not only is this method good enough for the military, but they actually trust us to instruct it. Further, when the biggest BASE jumping equipment manufacturer in the world (Squirrel.ws) decided to make instructional videos about this technique, they hired Matt (the owner of Tandem BASE Moab) to explain the practice in an instructional video (link). Additionally, Squirrel makes the most modern and safe Tandem BASE parachutes currently available. Our gear is the absolute best of the best and only available to a handful of people on the planet.
We would be misleading you if we did not acknowledge that, of course, some level of risk is involved when making a Tandem BASE jump. However, ‘Tandem BASE’ implements all of the safest procedures and technology to offer the experience of BASE jumping without introducing unnecessary risk. What we can promise you is that we are far and away the most responsible, educated, informed, prepared, and experienced team offering Tandem BASE jumping. The Tandem BASE Moab team not only uses these strategies, but we work with gear manufacturers, teach military contracts, and are trusted by the entire parachute community to teach these strategies. Now, anyone can make claims like this on their webpage, but we encourage you to dig into our backgrounds and references. You could literally contact just about any legitimate skydiving or BASE jumping company and verify our backgrounds and accomplishments. We have references with the Red Bull Airforce and have worked on Red Bull skydiving and BASE jumping projects repeatedly. We have worked with commercials, movies, mega stunts, national and world championship teams that are all skydiving and BASE jumping related.. No matter who you choose to make a Tandem BASE jump with, we encourage you to look into verifiable parachuting accomplishments, do not just believe claims made on social media or webpages. Our safety record and reputation is unmatched when it comes to Tandem BASE jumping.