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Oct 25, 2023 · Family photo. David Kirke pioneered the bungee jump. Mr Kirke, one of the pioneers of Oxford's Dangerous Sports Club, was the first to jump off the 245ft (76m) bridge. He did it wearing a top...
Oct 25, 2023 · Kirke sets off from Beachy Head in East Sussex in 1986 in a giant helium-filled kangaroo-shaped balloon. Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images
Oct 25, 2023 · David Kirke and his friends jumped off Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on 1 April 1979. Mr Kirke, who has died aged 78 , has been described by his family as someone who "would never have...
Nov 3, 2023 · David Kirke, a flamboyant thrill-seeker who performed — and, more important, survived — what is widely acknowledged as the first modern bungee jump, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Oxford,...
Nov 4, 2023 · 2023-11-04 - By Michael S. Rosenwald. David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical. “He could have been killed at least 20 or 30 times many years ago,” his friend Edward Hulton said.
Nov 9, 2023 · David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people’s imaginations. The world’s first bungee-jumper and founder of the Dangerous Sports Club died on October 21st, aged 78. Image: Dafydd Jones.
