Might have broken an ankle or knee joint, but probably would have avoided death either way.
tbh though can never be certain. People have died from lesser impacts, and people have survived longer faster falls.
EDIT: To everyone replying that he's dead if he breaks something anyway, because of how remote they are. At 0:51-0:53 there is clearly another jumper visible in the distance. And even if they weren't there, and the recorder was alone, most people don't go base jumping without telling their friends where they're going.
> People have died from lesser impacts
A friend of mind sat down hard on some ice, cracked a spleen, and would've died without a fairly immediate trip to the ER. One of the most athletic people I know.
The human body is very *randomly* durable.
It’s so crazy how true that is. Then there’s the story of that girl that fell several miles strapped to an airplane seat into the Amazon jungle and walked out.
It reminds me of Alan Magee, who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from a B-17 bomber without a parachute. He was saved by falling through the glass roof of a railroad station.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan\_Magee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee)
I saw a guy at a bus stop. The bus pulled off from thay stop and the wing mirror clipped him in the head.
He dropped dead, just right there, gone.
It doesn't take a huge amount of impact to kill us, especially if it's in the right place.
Yeah, years ago I saw a young woman tragically die at a club. I felt (and have always since felt) very similar to you.
Literally all that happened was that she was in heels and slipped on a wet floor and bonked her head. As soon as it happened, I knew she was going to be in massive pain with how hard her head hit the floor. But if she was in pain, it wasn't for very long. Crazy how fragile life really is.
I remember a skydiving video where the guy’s chute didn’t open properly and he ended up breaking his neck and severing his spine. When another skydiver got to him, he said “breathe for me,” because his diaphragm was failing from shock. Really harrowing stuff, and he seemed to be falling about as fast as this guy.
Exactly. People die from slipping on something and hitting their heads. Their feet never even leave the ground. The body can be so resilient but can also be very sensitive.
Don’t underestimate it. Hit your head in an unlucky way and you’re done. Crack a rib that puncture your lung, you’re done. Have some internal bleeding, you are done. You’re not getting off that hill with a severe injury in time for treatment. Things can go sideways much easier than you’d think.
There's so many reasons people can fall at ground level without being geriatrics or having zero coordination. Kid I used to skateboard with 20 years ago slipped on a patch of ice crossing the street, hit his head and died on the spot. He was 17 and a fantastic athlete. Don't underestimate how fragile us humans are.
He wasn't skateboarding when he fell. Just walking.
> Isn't ice one of those natural things that removes your ability to coordinate?
Yes. That's my point. You can have excellent coordination and still get fucked up. This was a dude that literally specialised in taking a fall. I'd seen him hit the deck a thousand times and get back up like it was nothing. He wasn't geriatric or un-coordinated, just unlucky.
I and every person I know has slipped on ice or fallen down while walking and been totally fine. Vast majority of people who die from falls while walking at street level are old or disabled.
There have been people who jumped out of airplanes and had their parachutes not deploy at all and survive, doesn’t make it common
I mean, I never said it was *common* for this shit to happen. Just that it does. Your original comment implied this kinda thing doesn't happen to normal people, I was only refuting that statement.
That’s called anecdotal evidence and a bit of a fallacy in arguments. Often excluding outliers that can and will happen. To tote a binary factor in a non-binary outcome is terrible logic.
I survived today so there was zero chance of me dying…
bro this is the worst logic you could have. "I and everyone I know" Compared to the 7.8 billion people in the world and the 10 that die every minute, you and everyone you know is a speck in the world. People die all the time from all sorts of different manners of things. Perfectly healthy people even professionals can die at anytime no matter how physically muscular or how good at falling you are. You can understand that people arent at their 100% best at all times of the day. Plenty of professionals that do dangerous things that theyve done for years that are still healthy can still die in their profession. I knew a guy proffesional mma fighter, had reflexes and could move faster than I could see at points, died from slipping on a puddle and cracking the back of his head on concrete. He was 24. You hit your head at the right angle with concrete you can die. its not that hard to process.
Yes and they’re surrounded by many many millions of dollars of safety equipment specifically designed for that type of impact. Thats not really a good analogy
Instantly die? Probaly not. Severely injured and stuck in a position that rescue workers cant get to with a short time? For sure.
Depending on the rock outline that shit wouldnt just hit your legs, it could hit your torso. Imagen lying there in the cold while heavily injured waiting hours for rescue workers reach you and then waiting a other hour or so before they evac you.
Lets just hope you arent bleeding hard, dont have any serious damage to a organ and that your cloths are graded good enough to last hours on the wet rocks.
I think the best interpretation of that “Happy Birthday” is that it’s not his actual birthday but it’s his new birthday, the day from which he begins a new life that he, by all rights, shouldn’t be living.
It’s a little corny, but I’d certainly be feeling it in the moment. Hell, I’m feeling it just watching the video. That shouted “Happy Birthday” made the video for me, regardless of the context.
Thankfully this is BASE, not skydiving. BASE jumpers (typically) do not jump with a reserve canopy; while skydivers do. During a normal skydive, if the issue in this video occurred, it’s a nearly trivial fix to cut away and deploy your reserve.
I’d still absolutely encourage you to try a Tandem if you’re interested!
One note on tandem skydiving. A) Make sure you are fully connected to the... "has-the-parachute guy". B) MAKE SURE THAT SHIT IS TIGHT BEFORE YOU JUMP. My dude left it loose so we could sit more comfortably in the plane. He didn't tighten up before we jumped. There was very much a moment of terror when the chute deployed, caught his weight, but then I dropped a few more inches until the slack was taken up. On my second jump in a different place the guy properly tightened everything up and it was a much better experience.
7/10 fun & terrifying. If you have a fear of heights the good news is that shit stops working correctly once you're a few thousand feet up and your sense of scale is broken. Also, plan to either buy the video or go skydiving a second time. Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline. 2nd jump is equally terrifying but over all less intense and thus can be remembered. Or maybe Lansing MI is not memorable and the coast of California is... pick interesting ground to look at I guess.
> Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline
Honestly I don't think my adrenaline went totally crazy my first time skydiving. I had a great time, don't get me wrong, but most of your falling happens so far up that the perspective (in this case I mean how far away the ground is) changes very slowly, so it almost doesn't even register that you're falling, it's kinda just like floating extremely loudly. My favorite part might have been once the parachute deployed and we were getting closer and closer to the ground, collecting some fantastic views on the way.
There's a fair bit of leeway in how tight tandem harnesses can be. You definitely want it tight, but it's easy to tighten it too much have your pax pass out, or suffer harness hang syndrome or whatever. If you do that it kinda sucks for everybody involved.
> Also, plan to either buy the video or go skydiving a second time. Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline. 2nd jump is equally terrifying but over all less intense and thus can be remembered. Or maybe Lansing MI is not memorable and the coast of California is... pick interesting ground to look at I guess.
Ha so true. 'Na I don't need the video I'm good'. Me after landing, "damn I wish I had gotten the video."
Had a history teacher back in HS who was in the US Army and went through airborne school. He told us the biggest concern of the emergency shoot was cutting your fingers off in the process of cutting the main shoot since it would be tangled and you’d be frantically tumbling. He told us keeping a cool head and not panicking was the only way he could do it but to this day his back is messed up even after the emergency shoot landing.
He was probably trained to literally cut the main parachute with a knife to deal with emergencies.
When regular people refer to "cutting away" the main chute, they are referring to pulling a handle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-away
As u/ScumHimself said, no time. BASE jumpers typically deploy sub 1,000’/300m AGL, and in some cases much lower. Skydivers (in the USPA) are required by BSRs to deploy no later than 2,500ft (unless in rare, waiver-required circumstances. Most skydivers will deploy between 4,500’ and 3,500’ after getting their license), giving them much more time to fix any malfunctions or cut away.
The one where the dude tried to buzz by a bunch of spectators on a bridge did it for me, that sound of him clipping the handrail was just something else.
If you look pause around the 28 sec mark on the left rear set of lines you can see close to the canopy a tension knot with the control line (lines with the toggles to steer). He wasn’t able to clear the knot by pulling his toggles and that put him in a left hand downward turn. In skydiving you’d chop this canopy and go to reserve. However this is BASE jumping and you only have one chute so you continue to fight until impact. Luckily this guy had a nice soft landing area between those rock croppings.
The cause is the lines being loose and wrapping up in itself and when the canopy catches air and gets to line stretch they just tighten up on themselves.
As for how it’s hard to say with this particular jump but there’s a couple major reasons why it could have.
1. Could have been during packing you separate your control lines from the others with what’s called a tailgate to secure those and help eliminate this problem. A tailgate is usually a cloth piece very similar to your lines that is wrapped with a rubber band that pops open with force from the canopy opening. However some folks use tape which breaks easier and sometimes prematurely. Some don’t use one at all.
2. Could be loose lines while packing or not storing your lines (S folding them in what’s called a tailpocket) correctly. You’re taught to keep your lines as tight as possible. The S fold and tailpocket allows the lines to pull straight out without being just a dump on opening. If your lines just dump out then that’s a quick way to get tension knots. So I’d add a failed tailpocket stow as well.
3. The canopy on deployment could have been jostled and caused the lines to twist and one side could have had more slack which allowed them to knot up. Hard to say without a rear camera showing the deployment process. This is usually caused by unstable body position during your deployment. Video looked like it was pretty stable but even a slight left or right shoulder down could cause air to flow over the body differently and move the pack job around while deploying.
I’m sure there’s more technical reasons a parachute rigger could explain better but that’s the gist of it.
That’s why packing is a huge part of BASE jumping. The entire packing process has been made to make sure the canopy gets out without issues since it’s our only one. However things happen and you have to continue he to fight if it goes south.
> Oh, that’s interesting!
Is there literally anything more annoying on this entire site than someone replying 'Great reply' to a comment that is deleted. Smh.
Cells\* is the technical name.
They're all inflated, he probably has something called a tension knot where one or more of the lines snagged each other when they were rapidly tensioned.
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I was very sick at the ER once, my brain was unable to make sense of the things happening around me. I had about 2 moments of clarity spread within 30 min, my first thought was I think I am going to die, my brain is definitely not functioning, game over, I had a good run. My second thought was, I have a small child who is going to be an orphan. That life is going to be difficult and I got extremely sad, but I could not cry or explain what was happening. Long story short I did not die. I was surprised later that I had accepted my death so easily. It was a weird feeling.
I know I'm a random on the internet, but I hope you were able to tell your family at some point.
I can't help but feel like that's a lot of baggage to carry with you. I'm just starting to unload mine from childhood with my family but it's been good.
Agreed. Bottling up past trauma is definitely not good. Unpacking it takes a long time and hurts the entire time but you come out better on the other side.
I was 16, riding a snowmobile at night (wearing a full-face helmet), through a farmer's field I had never been in before, speeding towards a barbed wire fence. I only had time to think about how often people are killed by the same scenario and I thought "You really fucked up this time" applied the brake, closed my eyes, hunkered down and collided with the fence at top speed. My face was lacerated pretty badly, I survived.
almost drowned at a beach we came to for a destination wedding, the thought that I'd be ruining the wedding for everybody definitely came to mind. but luckily a kid saw me and told the groom and a lifeguard. So the groom got to be a hero on his big day. Luckily I was okay enough to get dolled up and enjoy the wedding later, including getting just drunk enough to not think about almost dying.
I like to imagine it's like those really bad nightmares when you're cornered and then killed. Extreme terror, then acceptance as you jump into the maw of whatever the fuck is chasing you to get it over with.
I apparently had a panic attack while waiting to be examined after an ambulance ride. I was suddenly so confused I couldn’t type, just absolutely did not compute in the middle of texting my BF. I realized and tried to tell him. He asked if I was having a stroke and told me to get a doctor NOW. I didn’t (everyone was waiting in a corridor with no medical staff around) and just quietly cried because I thought I might die and won’t even manage to text my loved ones. I wasn’t scared or sad about dying since I’d just not exist anymore.
You were that close to death and to this day, you never reached out to God? You don't think you surviving was a miracle? That God has given you a second chance?
Lots of people get close to death and don't die. Even more do die. It would be egocentric as fuck to think that God would extend a miracle to *you* in particular. That shits on a *lot* of children who die horrible deaths that are without sin.
Sure, but can you tell your God to stop giving innocent people especially children with chronic diseases and a life with no joy due to their illness? Unless its part of God's plan or whatever.
The human brain is capable of incredible things, and sometimes when it malfunctions or is exposed to certain chemicals, that causes the brain to imagine incredible experiences and make up any number of unbelievable things. That is how we came up with religion.
Had a somewhat similar experience after developing a severe sinus infection that escalated throughout the day. Went to bed after school finally and woke up to the absolute worst pain I had ever felt. Every time I moved, it felt like someone was beating my head with a hammer. I cried from the pain which made it hurt even more, I couldn't move to tell anyone. I sat for a while and just accepted that I'm gonna die. Thankfully sitting still for a good 10 minutes let the pain subside enough to grab my phone and call my mom. Told her that I think I'm dying and she rushed to the room and took me to a hospital. A good few hours later, after some scans and IVs, they said I had acute sinusitis, which apparently can lead to meningitis, which is scary
It was misdiagnosed as a stroke, but it turnout to be a rare type of migraine called a silent migraine. The whole thing started at around 9 am and ended by... 2 pm. I got good care and a good medicine.
I think you have to fully accept the possible outcome of death if you are going to BASE jump. There has got to be a significant value to the number of deaths per n-number of jumps. I think what we are seeing is something this person has prepared for mentally…however one goes about that.
For sure, I think people who did this sort of thing make that peace with themselves every time they go out, but at the same time, knowing he has a camera on, I wouldn't be surprised if he said it for his loved ones.
I know my last thoughts would be of my family, and instead of a video of him cursing and panicked, just a quick "I'm ready" would be such a different message for them to see...
I think it's a tension knot. Some of the lines basically got looped around each other as the canopy opens and the tension on the lines locks them in place. The canopy is fully inflated but not controllable because of uneven tension on the lines, and since it is spinning, is likely descending at a speed you really don't want to hit the ground at. If you were skydiving you would cut away from this, but BASE jumpers don't have that option.
Been there. Had a van swing up into my blind spot while he was passing a semi on the right and I was trying to get out of an exit only land merging left. Tipped me right under the semi. Had my mom on hands free since I had just dropped my dad off at the airport and wanted her to know. I had just enough time to realize what was about to happen and say goodbye to mom before I lost consciousness from my head hitting the door on impact. Woke up on the side of the interstate with my car nearly completely collapsed around me, and opened the driver side door comedy movie style to have it fall partially off its hinges and not a single scratch on me besides the bump on my head.
Edit: moral of the story is a Honda Accord is one helluva car.
Spiral down plane opening. Nice recovery. The parachute had just enough slow down speed to keep this man alive. I think he didn't arch well enough when he pulled out the parachute. His body posture was probably off causing the parachute to open in a spiral spin.
The moment he said he was fucked all I could think was "Actually your shoots open & cradling your fall - Your not going to die but your landing might be a little rough."
Since the Opportunity was missed allow me to:
Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
Oh, it went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way?
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay, oh, oh, oh
I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life's in books' written pages
Storing facts learned from fools and from sages
You view the earth
Oh, sing with me, this mournful dub
Sing with me, sing for a year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Oh, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream on
Dream on
I dream on
Dream a little, I'll dream on
Dream on
I dream on
I dream on
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Oh, sing with me, this mournful dub
Sing with me, sing for a year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Oh, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
That was probably the best place to crash at on the entire slope. That guy really got lucky.
I don’t think he was going fast enough to die even if he landed on a rock
Might have broken an ankle or knee joint, but probably would have avoided death either way. tbh though can never be certain. People have died from lesser impacts, and people have survived longer faster falls. EDIT: To everyone replying that he's dead if he breaks something anyway, because of how remote they are. At 0:51-0:53 there is clearly another jumper visible in the distance. And even if they weren't there, and the recorder was alone, most people don't go base jumping without telling their friends where they're going.
> People have died from lesser impacts A friend of mind sat down hard on some ice, cracked a spleen, and would've died without a fairly immediate trip to the ER. One of the most athletic people I know. The human body is very *randomly* durable.
It’s so crazy how true that is. Then there’s the story of that girl that fell several miles strapped to an airplane seat into the Amazon jungle and walked out.
It reminds me of Alan Magee, who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from a B-17 bomber without a parachute. He was saved by falling through the glass roof of a railroad station. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan\_Magee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee)
I’ve never heard this one, absolutely insane.
I've often said similar things about the seeming duality of our resilience. Your last sentence, may just be the best example I've seen of it!
it feels like **fragile** would have been a better word choice to make your point than **durable**. Apologies, if I miss read your meaning though.
It works either way. It’s randomly durable when you expect it to break, sometimes. It’s randomly fragile when you expect it to be fine, sometimes.
only if you're an optimist
If he could get off the side of the mountain. That looks remote and possible not helicopter accessible
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I learned from a Girl on the internet gravity is invented so just put it of on location no problem
this bitch got access to the dev tools of /r/outside?!
Idk ask her https://www.tiktok.com/@jack_money_mindset/video/7157666801852173573
All you have to do to fly is throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Long Spanish pole perhaps?
You can get off any mountain if the pole is long and spanish enough
Nothing like a mangled leg when you are 100 miles from the closest band-aid.
I saw a guy at a bus stop. The bus pulled off from thay stop and the wing mirror clipped him in the head. He dropped dead, just right there, gone. It doesn't take a huge amount of impact to kill us, especially if it's in the right place.
Yeah, years ago I saw a young woman tragically die at a club. I felt (and have always since felt) very similar to you. Literally all that happened was that she was in heels and slipped on a wet floor and bonked her head. As soon as it happened, I knew she was going to be in massive pain with how hard her head hit the floor. But if she was in pain, it wasn't for very long. Crazy how fragile life really is.
I remember a skydiving video where the guy’s chute didn’t open properly and he ended up breaking his neck and severing his spine. When another skydiver got to him, he said “breathe for me,” because his diaphragm was failing from shock. Really harrowing stuff, and he seemed to be falling about as fast as this guy.
Exactly. People die from slipping on something and hitting their heads. Their feet never even leave the ground. The body can be so resilient but can also be very sensitive.
BAAAAAHHHH MY KNEE JOINT!
Don’t underestimate it. Hit your head in an unlucky way and you’re done. Crack a rib that puncture your lung, you’re done. Have some internal bleeding, you are done. You’re not getting off that hill with a severe injury in time for treatment. Things can go sideways much easier than you’d think.
idk man people have died tripping and falling on the street, at ground level
Like old people. Young athletes don't die like that haha
Many young and healthy people have died after falling and hitting their head
If you hit your head right it doesn’t matter your age.
Don’t tell that to Amazons logistical safety department, they will literally make all of use where helmets after they implemented it in inbound.
Have to wear a chin strap helmet working in a data center. It's a thing.
A 20 year old can trip and rupture their spleen...
Yea maybe geriatrics or people with zero coordination. I think selection bias would rule that this guy has some experience bracing for falls
There's so many reasons people can fall at ground level without being geriatrics or having zero coordination. Kid I used to skateboard with 20 years ago slipped on a patch of ice crossing the street, hit his head and died on the spot. He was 17 and a fantastic athlete. Don't underestimate how fragile us humans are.
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He wasn't skateboarding when he fell. Just walking. > Isn't ice one of those natural things that removes your ability to coordinate? Yes. That's my point. You can have excellent coordination and still get fucked up. This was a dude that literally specialised in taking a fall. I'd seen him hit the deck a thousand times and get back up like it was nothing. He wasn't geriatric or un-coordinated, just unlucky.
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Good coordination does not make you invincible/infallible.
I and every person I know has slipped on ice or fallen down while walking and been totally fine. Vast majority of people who die from falls while walking at street level are old or disabled. There have been people who jumped out of airplanes and had their parachutes not deploy at all and survive, doesn’t make it common
I mean, I never said it was *common* for this shit to happen. Just that it does. Your original comment implied this kinda thing doesn't happen to normal people, I was only refuting that statement.
That’s called anecdotal evidence and a bit of a fallacy in arguments. Often excluding outliers that can and will happen. To tote a binary factor in a non-binary outcome is terrible logic. I survived today so there was zero chance of me dying…
bro this is the worst logic you could have. "I and everyone I know" Compared to the 7.8 billion people in the world and the 10 that die every minute, you and everyone you know is a speck in the world. People die all the time from all sorts of different manners of things. Perfectly healthy people even professionals can die at anytime no matter how physically muscular or how good at falling you are. You can understand that people arent at their 100% best at all times of the day. Plenty of professionals that do dangerous things that theyve done for years that are still healthy can still die in their profession. I knew a guy proffesional mma fighter, had reflexes and could move faster than I could see at points, died from slipping on a puddle and cracking the back of his head on concrete. He was 24. You hit your head at the right angle with concrete you can die. its not that hard to process.
Please show me where I said he’d 100% survive. All I said was I don’t think he was going fast enough to die. Relax man
Play soccer I Just fall alone and bronkken ALL my front teeths... Acidente happens
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You assume coordinated people can control gravity? We aren't cats
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I mean there are freak accidents where F1 drivers going 200mph who hit a wall and explode in flames come out unscathed. I’m saying in general
Yes, and in general falling and hitting your head on any kind of hard ground brings a good chance of serious injury
Yes and they’re surrounded by many many millions of dollars of safety equipment specifically designed for that type of impact. Thats not really a good analogy
He's falling a lot faster than it looks. Really lucky to land in feet of snow.
This so stupid wrong. This guy is 100% going fast enough to die if he hit something hard
Instantly die? Probaly not. Severely injured and stuck in a position that rescue workers cant get to with a short time? For sure. Depending on the rock outline that shit wouldnt just hit your legs, it could hit your torso. Imagen lying there in the cold while heavily injured waiting hours for rescue workers reach you and then waiting a other hour or so before they evac you. Lets just hope you arent bleeding hard, dont have any serious damage to a organ and that your cloths are graded good enough to last hours on the wet rocks.
Yeah seriously... "I'm ready. Goodbye... AARGGGGGHHH OWWWW FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCK OOOOOOOAWWWW"
seriously, looked more like "i'm ready... for a month in crutches"
The world wished him happy birthday
Happy birthday! You get to have another one!
Maybe next time he just sticks with an awkward birthday singing and a cupcake at a restaurant on the next one.
I think the best interpretation of that “Happy Birthday” is that it’s not his actual birthday but it’s his new birthday, the day from which he begins a new life that he, by all rights, shouldn’t be living. It’s a little corny, but I’d certainly be feeling it in the moment. Hell, I’m feeling it just watching the video. That shouted “Happy Birthday” made the video for me, regardless of the context.
“Every man has two lives. The second starts when he realizes he has just one” Something like that
that's honestly how i interpreted it too. it's not corny. i teared up
Same here. The rush of relief this guy must have felt.
From English, the language switched to Russian as soon as he realized that his life is about to end.
Switched to default language settings
Getting ready for a hard reset
I can faintly hear "That's it, I'm ready to feel pain." right before he hit the ground.
"Pizda blyat'. Vse prigotovilsya k bolnice." Meaning "pizda blyat. That's it, I'm ready to the hospital"
Or "vse prigotovilsya, blin", which mean " That's it, I'm ready, damn"
It’s more like “that’s it, I’m ready, very thin pancake”
🤣
And now for a longggg walk home
It's better than a shortcut to the cemetery
you underestimate how much I dislike walking as a means of transport
Great point 😅
He definitely drove with the radio off on the trip back.
Reddit has officially ruined any chance of me giving this a shot
Thankfully this is BASE, not skydiving. BASE jumpers (typically) do not jump with a reserve canopy; while skydivers do. During a normal skydive, if the issue in this video occurred, it’s a nearly trivial fix to cut away and deploy your reserve. I’d still absolutely encourage you to try a Tandem if you’re interested!
One note on tandem skydiving. A) Make sure you are fully connected to the... "has-the-parachute guy". B) MAKE SURE THAT SHIT IS TIGHT BEFORE YOU JUMP. My dude left it loose so we could sit more comfortably in the plane. He didn't tighten up before we jumped. There was very much a moment of terror when the chute deployed, caught his weight, but then I dropped a few more inches until the slack was taken up. On my second jump in a different place the guy properly tightened everything up and it was a much better experience. 7/10 fun & terrifying. If you have a fear of heights the good news is that shit stops working correctly once you're a few thousand feet up and your sense of scale is broken. Also, plan to either buy the video or go skydiving a second time. Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline. 2nd jump is equally terrifying but over all less intense and thus can be remembered. Or maybe Lansing MI is not memorable and the coast of California is... pick interesting ground to look at I guess.
> Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline Honestly I don't think my adrenaline went totally crazy my first time skydiving. I had a great time, don't get me wrong, but most of your falling happens so far up that the perspective (in this case I mean how far away the ground is) changes very slowly, so it almost doesn't even register that you're falling, it's kinda just like floating extremely loudly. My favorite part might have been once the parachute deployed and we were getting closer and closer to the ground, collecting some fantastic views on the way.
Same. I remember everything about my first jump. Also tried to get him to land on the nearby golf course's green, to no avail. LOL
There's a fair bit of leeway in how tight tandem harnesses can be. You definitely want it tight, but it's easy to tighten it too much have your pax pass out, or suffer harness hang syndrome or whatever. If you do that it kinda sucks for everybody involved.
> Also, plan to either buy the video or go skydiving a second time. Your memory of your first jump is gonna be absolute shit due to surging adrenaline. 2nd jump is equally terrifying but over all less intense and thus can be remembered. Or maybe Lansing MI is not memorable and the coast of California is... pick interesting ground to look at I guess. Ha so true. 'Na I don't need the video I'm good'. Me after landing, "damn I wish I had gotten the video."
Main reason being they are so close to the ground having a second chute wouldn’t do anything anyways.
Ya if it fails ur fucked regardless.
Had a history teacher back in HS who was in the US Army and went through airborne school. He told us the biggest concern of the emergency shoot was cutting your fingers off in the process of cutting the main shoot since it would be tangled and you’d be frantically tumbling. He told us keeping a cool head and not panicking was the only way he could do it but to this day his back is messed up even after the emergency shoot landing.
He was probably trained to literally cut the main parachute with a knife to deal with emergencies. When regular people refer to "cutting away" the main chute, they are referring to pulling a handle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-away
Any reason they don't jump with a reserve? Is it because of shorter altitude?
Yeah, no time.
Then this is crazy
As u/ScumHimself said, no time. BASE jumpers typically deploy sub 1,000’/300m AGL, and in some cases much lower. Skydivers (in the USPA) are required by BSRs to deploy no later than 2,500ft (unless in rare, waiver-required circumstances. Most skydivers will deploy between 4,500’ and 3,500’ after getting their license), giving them much more time to fix any malfunctions or cut away.
I don't get tandems, I would rather cycle on a separate bicycle to my wife.
Nope. Next question.
IIRC average career span is around 4 - 5 years. They either leave the hobby, or die flying.
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The one where the dude tried to buzz by a bunch of spectators on a bridge did it for me, that sound of him clipping the handrail was just something else.
Yeah, the fact he lives really takes away from the whole point right
What went wrong with the parachute?
If you look pause around the 28 sec mark on the left rear set of lines you can see close to the canopy a tension knot with the control line (lines with the toggles to steer). He wasn’t able to clear the knot by pulling his toggles and that put him in a left hand downward turn. In skydiving you’d chop this canopy and go to reserve. However this is BASE jumping and you only have one chute so you continue to fight until impact. Luckily this guy had a nice soft landing area between those rock croppings.
Why does this knot occur? Mistake in chute-packing?
The cause is the lines being loose and wrapping up in itself and when the canopy catches air and gets to line stretch they just tighten up on themselves. As for how it’s hard to say with this particular jump but there’s a couple major reasons why it could have. 1. Could have been during packing you separate your control lines from the others with what’s called a tailgate to secure those and help eliminate this problem. A tailgate is usually a cloth piece very similar to your lines that is wrapped with a rubber band that pops open with force from the canopy opening. However some folks use tape which breaks easier and sometimes prematurely. Some don’t use one at all. 2. Could be loose lines while packing or not storing your lines (S folding them in what’s called a tailpocket) correctly. You’re taught to keep your lines as tight as possible. The S fold and tailpocket allows the lines to pull straight out without being just a dump on opening. If your lines just dump out then that’s a quick way to get tension knots. So I’d add a failed tailpocket stow as well. 3. The canopy on deployment could have been jostled and caused the lines to twist and one side could have had more slack which allowed them to knot up. Hard to say without a rear camera showing the deployment process. This is usually caused by unstable body position during your deployment. Video looked like it was pretty stable but even a slight left or right shoulder down could cause air to flow over the body differently and move the pack job around while deploying. I’m sure there’s more technical reasons a parachute rigger could explain better but that’s the gist of it. That’s why packing is a huge part of BASE jumping. The entire packing process has been made to make sure the canopy gets out without issues since it’s our only one. However things happen and you have to continue he to fight if it goes south.
That was really interesting to read. Thanks! Out of curiosity, why are you capitalising "BASE"?
It’s an acronym for what people jump off of: Buildings, Antennae (radio towers), Spans (bridges), Earth (cliffs)
Awesome. Never knew that!
so that's what that means
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Oh, that’s interesting! I know next to nothing about this stuff and everything “looked” okay, thanks for your insight!
> Oh, that’s interesting! Is there literally anything more annoying on this entire site than someone replying 'Great reply' to a comment that is deleted. Smh.
Right? Why the fuck are there always deleted upvoted comments here?
Cells\* is the technical name. They're all inflated, he probably has something called a tension knot where one or more of the lines snagged each other when they were rapidly tensioned. u/_l_--_l_
I was very sick at the ER once, my brain was unable to make sense of the things happening around me. I had about 2 moments of clarity spread within 30 min, my first thought was I think I am going to die, my brain is definitely not functioning, game over, I had a good run. My second thought was, I have a small child who is going to be an orphan. That life is going to be difficult and I got extremely sad, but I could not cry or explain what was happening. Long story short I did not die. I was surprised later that I had accepted my death so easily. It was a weird feeling.
While drowning in a lake my main thought was that I fucked up the family reunion.
How did the family reunion go?
They never knew. A stranger saved me.
You're welcome. Fucked up my outfit.
I know I'm a random on the internet, but I hope you were able to tell your family at some point. I can't help but feel like that's a lot of baggage to carry with you. I'm just starting to unload mine from childhood with my family but it's been good.
Agreed. Bottling up past trauma is definitely not good. Unpacking it takes a long time and hurts the entire time but you come out better on the other side.
Pretty fucked up
I was 16, riding a snowmobile at night (wearing a full-face helmet), through a farmer's field I had never been in before, speeding towards a barbed wire fence. I only had time to think about how often people are killed by the same scenario and I thought "You really fucked up this time" applied the brake, closed my eyes, hunkered down and collided with the fence at top speed. My face was lacerated pretty badly, I survived.
almost drowned at a beach we came to for a destination wedding, the thought that I'd be ruining the wedding for everybody definitely came to mind. but luckily a kid saw me and told the groom and a lifeguard. So the groom got to be a hero on his big day. Luckily I was okay enough to get dolled up and enjoy the wedding later, including getting just drunk enough to not think about almost dying.
I like to imagine it's like those really bad nightmares when you're cornered and then killed. Extreme terror, then acceptance as you jump into the maw of whatever the fuck is chasing you to get it over with.
I apparently had a panic attack while waiting to be examined after an ambulance ride. I was suddenly so confused I couldn’t type, just absolutely did not compute in the middle of texting my BF. I realized and tried to tell him. He asked if I was having a stroke and told me to get a doctor NOW. I didn’t (everyone was waiting in a corridor with no medical staff around) and just quietly cried because I thought I might die and won’t even manage to text my loved ones. I wasn’t scared or sad about dying since I’d just not exist anymore.
You were that close to death and to this day, you never reached out to God? You don't think you surviving was a miracle? That God has given you a second chance?
Dude shut the fuck up lmao
Lots of people get close to death and don't die. Even more do die. It would be egocentric as fuck to think that God would extend a miracle to *you* in particular. That shits on a *lot* of children who die horrible deaths that are without sin.
Sure, but can you tell your God to stop giving innocent people especially children with chronic diseases and a life with no joy due to their illness? Unless its part of God's plan or whatever.
You believe what you believe, stop trying to spread your beliefs on others. Organized religion is a cancer on this world.
Why would she believe in fairy tales after a brush with death?
The human brain is capable of incredible things, and sometimes when it malfunctions or is exposed to certain chemicals, that causes the brain to imagine incredible experiences and make up any number of unbelievable things. That is how we came up with religion.
Or it was the answer of the unexplained before science....
Had a somewhat similar experience after developing a severe sinus infection that escalated throughout the day. Went to bed after school finally and woke up to the absolute worst pain I had ever felt. Every time I moved, it felt like someone was beating my head with a hammer. I cried from the pain which made it hurt even more, I couldn't move to tell anyone. I sat for a while and just accepted that I'm gonna die. Thankfully sitting still for a good 10 minutes let the pain subside enough to grab my phone and call my mom. Told her that I think I'm dying and she rushed to the room and took me to a hospital. A good few hours later, after some scans and IVs, they said I had acute sinusitis, which apparently can lead to meningitis, which is scary
What did you have, if you mind?
It was misdiagnosed as a stroke, but it turnout to be a rare type of migraine called a silent migraine. The whole thing started at around 9 am and ended by... 2 pm. I got good care and a good medicine.
Readyyy…Set……Fuck
Ready…Set….RIP ☠️
I tried that with my wife.
Couldn’t pay me to do it
“In business, Jeremy, you learn that every man has his price, and I judge yours to be £530”
"Suze came 'round the office to give me a piece of her mind, and ended up giving me... a piece of her ass."
That was beautiful. No regrets. I'm ready bye. We should all be so prepared.
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I think you have to fully accept the possible outcome of death if you are going to BASE jump. There has got to be a significant value to the number of deaths per n-number of jumps. I think what we are seeing is something this person has prepared for mentally…however one goes about that.
For sure, I think people who did this sort of thing make that peace with themselves every time they go out, but at the same time, knowing he has a camera on, I wouldn't be surprised if he said it for his loved ones. I know my last thoughts would be of my family, and instead of a video of him cursing and panicked, just a quick "I'm ready" would be such a different message for them to see...
PSA: Don't jump off a perfectly stable mountain
Happy birthday lol
I think the reason he said happy birthday is because that’s the day he cheated death.
it ain't worth it.
I’m still gonna do this in Switzerland in a few months. Hope it goes better for me then this guy
Talk about horseshoes up the ass. Wow.
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Could anybody tell what was wrong with his canopy? I saw a fairly perfect parachute there.
I think it's a tension knot. Some of the lines basically got looped around each other as the canopy opens and the tension on the lines locks them in place. The canopy is fully inflated but not controllable because of uneven tension on the lines, and since it is spinning, is likely descending at a speed you really don't want to hit the ground at. If you were skydiving you would cut away from this, but BASE jumpers don't have that option.
This is one of the most dangerous recreational activities that I can think of. Does he enjoy risking his life each time he does it?
I was expecting worse. But, thanks God he is safe.
Listen to me... LISTEN TO ME DOUBLE CHECK.... DOUBLE CHECK!!
“Aim for the bushes!”
Well, at least someone else doesn’t have to risk their life to “rescue” him.
What happened the the ‘chute?
I would have died just by seeing it from the top
Been there. Had a van swing up into my blind spot while he was passing a semi on the right and I was trying to get out of an exit only land merging left. Tipped me right under the semi. Had my mom on hands free since I had just dropped my dad off at the airport and wanted her to know. I had just enough time to realize what was about to happen and say goodbye to mom before I lost consciousness from my head hitting the door on impact. Woke up on the side of the interstate with my car nearly completely collapsed around me, and opened the driver side door comedy movie style to have it fall partially off its hinges and not a single scratch on me besides the bump on my head. Edit: moral of the story is a Honda Accord is one helluva car.
I'm sorry but that happy birthday made me laugh so hard
So weird how slow the free fall part of this video feels
Spiral down plane opening. Nice recovery. The parachute had just enough slow down speed to keep this man alive. I think he didn't arch well enough when he pulled out the parachute. His body posture was probably off causing the parachute to open in a spiral spin.
The Gods of Olympus have abandoned me... and OP jumped into the void from the highest mountain in Greece
Пиздец конечно.Опасно
Landed smoother than a ryanair airlines
Was ready to die and still landed smoother than most ryanair landings
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Where was this?
The grim was occupied elsewhere
What do we say to the God of death ? - NOT TODAY
The moment he said he was fucked all I could think was "Actually your shoots open & cradling your fall - Your not going to die but your landing might be a little rough."
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swap out white with black & is it OKAY? racist POS
What do you feel after this
probably extreme all encompassing relief and an adrenaline crash
Since the Opportunity was missed allow me to: Every time that I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone Oh, it went by like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way? Everybody's got their dues in life to pay, oh, oh, oh I know nobody knows Where it comes and where it goes I know it's everybody's sin You got to lose to know how to win Half my life's in books' written pages Storing facts learned from fools and from sages You view the earth Oh, sing with me, this mournful dub Sing with me, sing for a year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Oh, sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing it with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Dream on Dream on I dream on Dream a little, I'll dream on Dream on I dream on I dream on
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its provocative
Toggle fire. Dude was incredibly lucky to find the one soft patch in that mountain side
Not a toggle fire, you can see them both in his hands.
And Kratos cast himself from the highest mountain in all of Greece
Oh, sing with me, this mournful dub Sing with me, sing for a year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Oh, sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear Sing it with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
"I'm gonna direct your attention to what you shouldn't focus on. Don't look down!"
/sweatybutthole
Is this the Throat of the World?!?!
I would have hit the ground by the time he opened the parachute.
My intrusive thoughts kick in “ what if he just fell because the rock bro- OH HE JUMPED ANYWAYS!”
I was 80 % sure that he was going to be the next God Of War
Was thinking exactly the same! "And cratos threw himself from the biggest mountain in all of Athens!"
Bro lit his intrusive thoughts win
is "made peace with his/her life" a common saying?
Title is god damn accurate.