B.A.S.E. jumping (Building - Antenna - Span - Earth)
was first started some 25 years ago in the U.S.A. First Croat to make
a B.A.S.E. jump was Nenad Pesut (a.k.a. The Delegate) in 1989. in Los
Angeles, and it was also him who started B.A.S.E. jumping in Croatia.
The number of B.A.S.E. jumpers was increasing very slowly, so that today
in Croatia there are only five people who do B.A.S.E. jumps: Nenad Pesut
(67 jumps), Igor Kecerin (17), Davor Lovrencic (~20), Robert Pecnik
(89)and Darko Tupek (4). Tom Begic, an Australian of Croat origin, has
also made 12 B.A.S.E. jumps in Croatia.
B.A.S.E. jumping is not legally defined or regulated
in Croatia, so jumping a site depends on local police or other authorities
only.
This is the list of B.A.S.E. sites in Croatia and
Slovenia that were jumped so far:
Buildings:
- Zagrepcanka building in Zagreb
Height: 94.5 m / 315 ft;
Landing: difficult
- Tresnjevka smokestack in Zagreb
Height: 190 m / 633 ft;
Landing: easy
- Borovje smokestack in Zagreb
Height: 190 m / 633 ft;
Landing: easy
- Bakar smokestack near Rijeka
Height: ~250 m / ~ 750 ft;
Landing: easy
Antennas:
- Tom Begic jumped an antenna in the village Kriz
near Dugo Selo in 1999 using static line. Quote: "it was a VERY
LOW static line jump".
Span:
- bridge in Limska draga near Vrsar
Height: 125 m / 416 ft;
Landing: easy
- Trsat bridge near Rijeka
Height: 87 m / 290 ft;
Landing: very difficult - dangerous
- Krk bridge
Height: ~60 m / ~200 ft;
Landing: water
- the new Maslenica bridge near Zadar (T. Begic)
Height: ?
Landing: water
Earth: