Marc Hauser | |
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Born | 1971 |
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation(s) | Professional skydiver, artist entrepreneur, motivational speaker [1] |
Website | http://www.speed-tracking.com/english/ |
Marc Hauser is a professional Swiss skydiver, artist and entrepreneur. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He is the founder of speed tracking and holds the world record for the fastest horizontal free fall. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Hauser is also the founder of Erfolgswelle AG, a communications agency. [2] [5] [13]
Hauser is the founder of speed tracking, a form of skydiving. [7] [8] [12] The goal of the discipline is to achieve the fastest forward speed possible in free fall relative to the ground. [7] [10] [11]
Hauser gained his first experience skydiving at the age of 18. [10] At the age of 35 he received specialized training from Thomas Naef and Rolf Kuratle, two members of the Babylon Freefall Skydiving team, in Skydive Empuriabrava (Empuriabrava, Spain). [5] [8]
He completed his first speed tracking attempt in 2009. [10] In October 2012, Hauser set the world record for the fastest horizontal free fall in Empuriabrava, Spain. [4] [8] [9] [14] [15] [16] Hauser did not use specialized equipment to accelerate his speed. [9]
Marc Hauser is also the first human ever to perform a free fall jump into the jet stream near Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, on 30 June 2018. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
As skydiving suit he was wearing a thermal protection jumpsuit without wings (no wingsuit).
The exit altitude of the jump was at 7,400 m / 24,000 ft above sea level, the temperature at -40 °C / -40 °F. At exit altitude the jet stream speed was 137 km/h (85 mph). The groundspeed / horizontal speed of Marc performing this free fall skydive was at 270 km/h (167 mph). During his free fall Hauser covered a horizontal distance of 5.9 km / 3.66 miles in total. Hauser opened his parachute at 2,000 m / 6,500 ft altitude above ground.
The BBC World News documentary Chasing the Jet Stream [22] covers the free fall jump into the jet stream in three parts, which aired on 2, 8 and 15 December 2018. The documentary highlights both Marc Hauser's goal to raise awareness for cleantech-pioneering enterprises using airborne wind energy systems, as well as the execution of the preparations that eventually lead to the free fall jump into the jet stream. [23]
In 2019, the Guinness World Records honored the parachute jump as the world's first skydive into the jet stream.
He created a watch collection with Formex Watch SA, a Swiss watch manufacturer, in October 2013. [24]
Marc Hauser also owns a naming agency erfolgswelle AG Namensagentur and inspires larger audiences as a motivational and keynote speaker.
Marc Hauser lives in Bern, Switzerland with his two daughters. [5]
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