[suicide] and the golden gate bridge

In an attempt to circumvent suicide, the Golden Gate Bridge authority has voted to install nets twenty feet below the deck to prevent deaths: The Golden Gate Bridge is a frequent site for suicides and is sometimes reported to be the most popular place to commit suicide in the world. The deck is approximately 245 feet (75 m) above the water. After a fall of approximately four seconds, jumpers hit the water at some 88 miles per hour (142 km/h), which is nearly always fatal. Most of those who survive the impact die in the cold water. Currents beneath the bridge are very strong, and some jumpers have undoubtedly been washed out to sea without ever being seen. The water may be as cold as 47 °F (8 °C), and great white sharks, which tend to congregate around the Farallon Islands, are sometimes seen under the bridge. The photo below shows how the stainless steel netting would look: There are three questions I'd like to ask: 1. What is the maximum height a person can fall from, into water? Here is one answer. Here is another. Olympic divers leap from a ten metre tower. Seems to me, all things being equal, that around 30 metres would be maximum if the intention was to survive. 2. Why, if a person jumped and hit the net, could he/she not jump again off the net and suicide that way? Seems a bit of a waste of money to put the net so high. Then again, there is the shipping to consider below and the aesthetics. 3. Should consideration be given to potential suicides, at taxpayers' expense? Jury's out on this one. Personally, suicide is no way out as it is a one way trip to the nether regions and I don't mean the water below. You know, I'd advise them to make that call, after all: