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FYI

"Yesterday, friday, we had a very sad day in Ibiza (Baleares Islands, Spain), one of our old friends, years ago in windsurf, and started kiting two years ago or bit more, Ramn, 35 years old, married and a 4 year daughter, nice guy, always helpfull with everyone, and one of the most cautios guys I know had a bad day that ended in fatality, Im going to explain what happened, lived in first person, so that it will never happen again anyplace:

We got to the beach, and regged our smallest kites cause the windmeter indicated 30 kts, 39 in the gusts. We were all overpowered with our 7m, 8m, and 9m. Ramon rigged his 8m, but like others he wasnt decided to go kiting because of the strong winds. The moment he decided to go, he asked two friends to help him, one grabbed his harness, and the other one helped him with the kite. He depowered the kite the maximum, but the bad luck, because of the strong wind, made his right steering line tangled just very near the pigtail of the kite, and made a knot there, so the line was shortened aprox 30 cm (we saw it when they got the kite from the roof of a hotel), nobody noticed this knot, he didnt either, he gave the thumbs up to lift the kite, and the kite passed through the zenit, and continued making a kiteloop, that dragged him and the guy that was holding his harness (big and strong guy, aprox 80 kg), who couldnt grab him after the first 2 meters, the pull of the kite ripped his hand off the harness. He dragged two more meters with the bad luck of hitting his head on one of the few stones on the beach, he probably passed out there, but the kite did another kiteloop that launched him 20 more meters, then another one that launched him another 10m and made him hit a van that was in a parking lot behind the beach, and then inexplicably did another kiteloop that made him fly over that van, another two vans, one tree, a 2 meter fence, and some gardens, and violently impacted on the first floor of a hotel, and fell to the ground. then everything finished. Nobody could do anything for him, they tried holding him, bat could do nothing. A low depower kite added to the knot that was tied with the strong winds shaking the kite tips left rigged time with the lines extended a while, and over 30 kts, triggered this sad accident. PLEASE BE CAREFULL OUT THER AND I WISH NOBODY TO PASS THROUGH WHAT HIS FAMILY AND OUR SELVES ARE SUFFERING."

(from seabreeze)

Bad news from Spain... I am friend the people who losted Ramn and they were in the accidents moment.... TERRIBLE...