Darwin doesn't always get it right

Edward01 said:
Yeh I read a thing about it once. They studied some chap and come up with a list of things that helped him survive. For example, he curled into the fetal position, and he passed out, (your body can take something stupid like 33 times more damage if your muscles are relaxed, which they would be if you are unconscious.) All of which contributed to this chap surviving.
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Yea I saw a program about similar things, people are so sure of their "inevitable" doom that everything just relaxes. There's been stories like that of people surviving e.g. suicide attempts by jumping from high places.
 
Raist said:
Right on. Terminal velocity is about 120 MPH. at 33,000 feet, though, the air pressure and temperature will have more of a death factor. That would be seriously uncomfortable.
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Probably be more then seriously uncomfortable haha, your be unconcious in about anywhere around 30 seconds and thats if you survive the 500mph bailout and avoid the engines :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_Useful_Consciousness
 
Raist said:
Right on. Terminal velocity is about 120 MPH. at 33,000 feet, though, the air pressure and temperature will have more of a death factor. That would be seriously uncomfortable.
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You would also slow down from that speed as you got closer to earth as air resistance would go up, unless of course you were unlucky enough to hit another plane on your way down.:p (Although terminal velocity at sea level isn't much lower?)

Shadow Sky said:
Probably be more then seriously uncomfortable haha, your be unconcious in about anywhere around 30 seconds and thats if you survive the 500mph bailout and avoid the engines :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_Useful_Consciousness
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But how long would you stay at 33,000 ft when in freefall? :p Within a minute I would expect you to be within 15,000 ft ish.:p
 
I've met a few people who had total malfunctions, some still skydive. :)

Unfortunately I've also been present at a couple which didn't have such a nice tale to tell.

Max velocity I've achieved was 191mph, the slowest I've achieved was 89mph. Longest skydive I've done was from 24,000 ft, took 2mins and 7s before I deployed at just below 3,000ft.
 
Freefaller said:
I've met a few people who had total malfunctions, some still skydive. :)

Unfortunately I've also been present at a couple which didn't have such a nice tale to tell.

Max velocity I've achieved was 191mph, the slowest I've achieved was 89mph. Longest skydive I've done was from 24,000 ft, took 2mins and 7s before I deployed at just below 3,000ft.
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Out of intrest where abouts is your normal dz? I'm still new to skydiving and so have only jumped at netheravon but was planning on branching out more heh
 
I don't jump anymore unfortunately, though I was an instructor with over 500 jumps :)

I used to go to Langar, and Hinton, but I spent most of my time jumping in the states and in and around Europe. :)
 
That is a lot of risk, cost and preparation for just two minutes and seven seconds of complete freedom.
 
Probably best if you are unconscious when falling from 33,000, wouldn't want to spend my last few minutes thinking about that big planet thats going to hit me in the face.
 
Going on my first skydive (tandem obviously) in just under a month, a group of us are booked in for a friend's 18th!

Can't wait, but absolutely terrified!
 
I never did a tandem when I did my first parachute experience. It was quite a quick days worth of training, though I showed a fairly decent aptitude for it, and within 24hrs I had my legs dangling on the edge of a plane! :D

Best feeling in the world. :cool:

Unfortunately now I take silly risks to get my kicks :/
 
Raymond Lin said:
happens now and again, someone in NZ did the same and landed in a bush, 10ft to the side he would've landed in concrete. The whole thing was videoed with his helmet cam where he said goodbye and sent his love to his gf before he hit the ground. He even walked away from it with only bruises and broken ribs.
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ScarySquirrel said:
Wow, got any links to see the video or read about that?
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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgaLxD3wu6M

Very lucky guy
 
It is quite possible one of the best experiences possible and i would recommend anyone try it at least once

Freefaller said:
I never did a tandem when I did my first parachute experience. It was quite a quick days worth of training, though I showed a fairly decent aptitude for it, and within 24hrs I had my legs dangling on the edge of a plane! :D

Best feeling in the world. :cool:

Unfortunately now I take silly risks to get my kicks :/
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if you don't mind me asking, why did you give it up?
 
poopots said:
Unprotected sex?
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That's not scary, that's just stupid.

Shadow Sky said:
It is quite possible one of the best experiences possible and i would recommend anyone try it at least once


if you don't mind me asking, why did you give it up?
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Lack of time and it was getting expensive, the reason being I seldom jumped in the UK. And spending the weekend at a DZ for the hope of a couple of jumps every weekend was starting to get to me. So I started travelling around the world for my jumps, and that costs mucho dinero.

I had camera gear, several helmets, several altis, freefall computers, 3 different jumpsuits, 2 rigs (parachutes), and all the equipment I needed, this alone came to over 10k. I used to spend about another 4-5k travelling around the world jumping too!

When you took it to the level I did it at (over 100 jumps a year) it got expensive quickly! :D

Still, I've jumped out of 15 different aircraft (one of which was a DC3!!), 3 helicopters, 2 hot air balloons, 1 cliff and 1 bridge. So I've had a decent run at it. Maybe in a few years time I'll get back into it. We'll see.
 
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