Posted on 02/13/2007 5:26:10 PM PST by amchugh
Video from the helmet camera of British skydiver Michael Holmes.
It shows him plummeting 12,000ft to earth after both his parachutes failed, saying goodbye to the world... and hitting the ground with a sickening thud at 80mph.
Michael's friend, who jumped from the same plane, also filmed the whole event. He found his pal bleeding and unconscious - but alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It's not the fall that gets you...it's the sudden stop at the end.
You OK?
No.
LOL.....you look like you just fell off a 1200 story building.
"You OK?
No."{
Very Pythonesque
Wow.
2 Blondes at the top of the Empire State Building:
Blonde 1- If I jumped off this building how long do you think it would take to land?
Blonde 2- It would probably take 2 weeks.
Blonde 1- Do you think it would kill me?
Blonde 2- 2 Weeks with no food or no water! There's no way you could survive!
Tis a mere flesh wound.
No.
Lol.
I was thinking....."How many fingers am I holding up?"
Never, ever.....jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
That'll make you cringe...
Now THAT is one wild ride!!!!!!!! No thank you!!!
If he was falling at 80 per hour the chutes were slowing him down. A free fall is over 2 hundred miles per hour.
Thanks Sundog, that's a much better video, and I should have searched for it.
"I'm getting bettah!"
I think one of the "Unlucky Skydivers" at your link was my late brother-in-law's roommate in the hospital. He landed in a pond and I think broke his legs. I'll have to ask my sister if she remembers his story.
But survived! God had mercy upon him!!!
If you tense up, your body will become rigid and will be more prone to breakage upon fall.
Consider an analogy to inanimate objects: Go to top of World Trade Center and drop a tube of glass. It will shatter on the streets below because it is a rigid object. Now drop a tube of rubber. It will land on the streets below fully intact because it is "relaxed."
So when you fall, be the rubber and not the glass.
ping
Are ya Dayed?
Are you hert?
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