What about the families of survivors? I'm just thinking too much again.
Also if your parachute fails, you have a second, angrier parachute as a backup
Yes
You need to buy the thing to leave a review
#survivorbias
Oh man just as I’m about to go skydiving today cuz I got convinced to join while at a bar last night😬
...and we never heard from @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com again.
I survived!
How was it?
Crazy as fuck. Was over the beach. Was my second jump and much more enjoyable the second time
Glad you made it, ha
Course ya did. TIs aren't nonces, at work anyway. And the guys they train are only sometimes nonces. And some of them like big tips ^.^
Peggy Hill disagrees.
That episode never sat right with me. I don't care how soft the mud is. There is no way anyone could survive a fall from 15k ft!
From my understanding, that is a thing that actually happens from time to time in real life.
Which is horrifying.
It's happened more often than you'd think. Usually there is something that makes it happen, like falling through tree branches or into something like a snow bank, but it happens enough that it pops up in trivia from time to time.
The amount of scathing that a canopy company gets when a skydiver hits hard is particularly dependent on their quality. Most of us who skydive read the death/injury reports regularly, and when the equipment was at fault it (the report) gets nasty. Here's a link if anyone is curious to read through some of them. The majority are going to be the fault of the loon jumping out of a plane, but every now and then you'll see an equipment failure. Most of those, even, are due to poor maintenance and upkeep, not manufacturer sleaziness.
Too bad it takes people literally falling out of the sky and dying in order to amass the data to know its dangerous. Too bad it's impossible to prevent that through regulation, I'm told.
If a parachute fails due to manufacturing defects, wouldn't that be bad news?
Same applies to coffin companies. Not a single user came back to complain.
Parachutes are not scientificaly proven to reduce skydiving deaths. There's never been a double blind study done.
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