Darryl Deagle described himself as a full-time adrenalin junkie. (Deagle's blog site)

The victim of a fatal skydiving accident in New Brunswick on the weekend has been identified as Darryl Deagle, 34, of Notre-Dame.

Deagle, the father of a nine-month-old daughter, was killed Saturday near Moncton. Police found his body in a field off Highway 115 in Notre-Dame about 3:30 p.m.

A fellow skydiver said Deagle overshot the landing spot.

On his blog, speedjunkie.ca, Deagle described himself as a part-time motorsports racer and full-time adrenalin junkie. His site includes videos of him sailing above the clouds in his wing suit.

Skydive Moncton raised $2,600 for Deagle's family by donating all of the proceeds from Sunday's jumps. Online friends in the motorcycle community are now talking about holding a yearly fundraising ride in Deagle's memory.

Meanwhile, police continue to investigate. Foul play is not suspected, said District 5 RCMP Sgt. Jeff Johnston. An autopsy revealed Deagle died of injuries consistent with a fall from a great height, but police are still trying to determine exactly what happened, he said.

It remains unclear if a problem with Deagle's parachute caused the accident.

Skydiving is safe: group

A spokesperson for the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association says skydiving is a safe sport, despite the fatality.

John Gustafson, of the Canadian Parachute Association, said such tragedies are always a shock, but he maintains the sport has a good safety record.

He said the sport averages one fatality in every 142,000 jumps in Canada. Every year there are about 100,000 jumps in Canada. By comparison, the average in the rest of the world is one death in every 79,000 skydives.

'Even with the most well-trained and skilled skydivers, the reality is accidents do happen.'—John Gustafson, Canadian Parachute Association

"We certainly come up as being safer than other parts of the world, even safer than the United States, where a lot of the skydiving is centred."

Still, skydiving carries an inherent risk, stressed Gustafson.

"No matter how good your equipment is, no matter how much skill and experience you have, the risk never comes down to zero," he said.

"So there always remains a certain risk. I mean, even with the most well-trained and skilled skydivers, the reality is accidents do happen. And that seems to be what happened here."

Darryl Deagle was skydiving with a group of five people from Skydive Moncton about 30 kilometres north of the city when the accident happened.

Greg MacBeth, a former owner of Skydive Moncton and a veteran skydiver, said Deagle flew too far from the drop zone and somehow made a turn too low to the ground.

MacBeth said Skydive Moncton has an excellent reputation in the skydiving community. In 33 years of operation, this was the first fatality, he said.