The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 20

Sunday, June 25, 1995 The Honolulu Advertiser Kahiko at hula fest Halau Ke Kapa Maile dances to "Ke Ala I Waialua" during the kahiko competition of the King Kamehameha Hula Festival yesterday at the Neal Blaisdell Center arena. Advertiser photo by Cory Lum Wailua: Fall of waterfall is a long way someone jumps over them, -which happens a couple of times a year. Some of these are suicides. Some thrill seekers. "Most of them have not survived.

Mostly they are fatal," said Kauai Fire Chief David Sproat. It's Sproat's men who hike down a treacherous cliffside trail, or who are dropped by helicopter to the rocky shore of a wide pool at the base of the falls. They are the ones who dive for the bodies, and who strap them onto stretchers for the helicopter ride out. A Kauai man who jumped last Monday was lucky. He hit the water with his buttocks.

There was bleeding from various places, and an examination showed he had broken his tailbone. Kauai pathologist Rex Couch has performed autopsies on several other jumpers. In one recent case, Couch said the injury was very similar to the trauma people get from being rammed into a steering wheel in a head-on car collision. But how high are the falls? The Advertiser resolved to find out. First, I did some old Boy Scout angle work.

I determined the angle between the top and bottom of the falls, and then measured the angle of another feature at the same distance, which I could approach with a tape measure. By comparing angles and the height of the known object and working out ratios, I came out with 191 feet. But it's been a long time since geometry class. I wasn't secure enough with that number to have been willing to go over the side of the falls on a 191-foot rope. I went lowertech still.

I got a long roll of string. I tied a small block of wood to the end of it. I crawled to the edge of the precipice and looked down at the pool below. It was a deep, dark green, rippled by the wind and the force of the water plunging down. I threw the block of wood over the side.

It hit the rocks near the bottom of the cliff. I pulled the string tight. I had about 170 feet of line out. Another time, I hit rocks at 175 feet. The wind and the undercut cliff made it impossible to see exactly where the line had reached the rocky talus, so I couldn't see how much farther down it was to the water.

The talus is pretty steep. Could have been 15 feet, maybe more. I figured 185 feet was a good estimate. I Finally, I went marginally higher tech. I threw a couple of stones over the side, and used my trusty Casio wristwatch to time the fall.

Right around seconds. Maybe a smidgen more. I checked with both Kauai County Engineer Steve Oliver and a Lihue Library encyclopedia reference on the laws of motion. Both these authoritative sources gave me the same answer. An object that starts at rest and falls for seconds goes about 196 feet.

A smidgen longer, a few more feet. I could think of a couple of other ways to determine the height, but was feeling pretty comfortable with 190 to 200 feet when I remembered that the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1982 published in environmental impact statement on a proposal for a hydroelectric plant at the falls. I went back and consulted it. There, for all to see, was a drawing, showing the face of the falls, and its elevations.

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Dubbed "the wandering troubadour," Cummings spent his career writing Hawaiian melodies and commercial jingles. He logged tens of thousands of air miles traveling the world as an ambassador for the state's tourism trade. Cummings authored "I Want My Statehood, Uncle" during Hawaii's unsuccessful bid to become the 49th state. He made his professional debut in 1929 on Kauai. It was during a bout of homesickness while touring the Mainland that Cummings composed "Waikiki" in 1938.

His suspension from the Musicians' Union in 1952 made headlines. National union leadership sanctioned him when he refused to cross picket lines and play at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel during a strike by local membership, but he was reinstated three months later. Cummings is survived by his wife, Florence "Kalu" Cummings; sons, Melvin, Myron and Samuel; daughters, Andrea Hamilton and MoCummings ana Dyer; and seven grandchildren. Friends may call 8:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the Honolulu Stake Tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; service 11 a.m.; burial at Hawaiian Memorial Park.

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think the Wailua Falls were all are killed. Dunkelberger The Wailua jump seemed so tall. was lucky. The fall snapped like a great fantasy jump, He took the plunge. Mon- his jaws together so hard said Dunkelberger, who's day.

He survived, but what a that one tooth cut right done a few high jumps into bruise. through his tongue, and an- water on the Mainland. "The adrenalin rush almost other tooth broke off and "If you're going to choose a suffocates you on the way lodged in his throat. His tail- fantasy, pick the right fantadown, so you don't have bone cracked, and the skin sy. This wasn't the right one.

much air left. I was uncon- broke open. The bruising is I hope nobody else tries it," scious after I hit the water, immense. he said. "I don't think I'll but I stayed afloat.

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