Skydiver jumps from 25,000 feet without deploying parachute (and lives)

[LadyStanley]

Lands in net

Story: http://www.sportsnet.ca/more/watch-skydiver-completes-jump-without-parachute/

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[aleshemsky83]

Pretty amazing

But I will say he was actually pretty close to missing.

 

[knifer]

Why ?

 

[aleshemsky83]

Reminds me of this crazy skydive

 

[Flukeshot]

This guy has a wife and 4 year old? Seems pretty self centred to do something so dangerous.

 

[LadyStanley]

Why ?

Adrenaline junky? Daredevil? Attention seeker? Dare? "Why not"?

This guy has a wife and 4 year old? Seems pretty self centred to do something so dangerous.

Sometimes you just have to let someone risk their life if you love them. (And they have the motivation to succeed.)

 

[Flukeshot]

Adrenaline junky? Daredevil? Attention seeker? Dare? "Why not"?



Sometimes you just have to let someone risk their life if you love them. (And they have the motivation to succeed.)

I'm sure the 4 yr old didn't have a vote on potentially not having a dad.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I think he was probably getting paid for it too.

A mans got to put food on the table.

 

[FLYLine27*]

What a selfish JERK.

 

[chicagoskycam]

I guess nobody with a family shall ever do anything dangerous. This feat is pretty amazing.

 

[dogbazinho]

What a selfish JERK.

I actually agree. I have very little sympathy for daredevils.. Well.. to their families sure.

 

[Flukeshot]

I guess nobody with a family shall ever do anything dangerous. This feat is pretty amazing.

Big difference between dangerous and insanely reckless. Let's say he dies, so the kid grows up getting to talk about how his dad died jumping out of a plane with no parachute for like $50 k?

 

[aleshemsky83]

Big difference between dangerous and insanely reckless. Let's say he dies, so the kid grows up getting to talk about how his dad died jumping out of a plane with no parachute for like $50 k?

That's pretty good money considering the guy landed completely unharmed. Not that that is the actual amount I really don't know.

 

[Hurt]

That's pretty good money considering the guy landed completely unharmed. Not that that is the actual amount I really don't know.

I'm all for people doing whatever stupid stuff they want but let's not kid ourselves - 50K to jump out of a plane without a parachute and aiming for this one spot is not enough. Not for me at least and I'm sure a lot of others who value their lives more than 50K worth.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I'm all for people doing whatever stupid stuff they want but let's not kid ourselves - 50K to jump out of a plane without a parachute and aiming for this one spot is not enough. Not for me at least and I'm sure a lot of others who value their lives more than 50K worth.

Just to be clear, is that the actual number?

Also, it depends upon your confidence that you can do it safely, which I'm sure this guy and his team had. I don't think he planned on dying. His odds of doing it successfully are not the same as your odds for example.

I definitely wouldn't do it, my legs get weak going up a glass elevator.

 

[Flukeshot]

For the record I made up that number. Not sure how much it actually was.

 

[Hurt]

Just to be clear, is that the actual number?

Also, it depends upon your confidence that you can do it safely, which I'm sure this guy and his team had. I don't think he planned on dying. His odds of doing it successfully are not the same as your odds for example.

I definitely wouldn't do it, my legs get weak going up a glass elevator.

For the record I made up that number. Not sure how much it actually was.

Whoops, thought it was the actual number. Nonetheless, I don't know what number would make me do it.

 

[LadyStanley]

Big difference between dangerous and insanely reckless. Let's say he dies, so the kid grows up getting to talk about how his dad died jumping out of a plane with no parachute for like $50 k?

I'm all for people doing whatever stupid stuff they want but let's not kid ourselves - 50K to jump out of a plane without a parachute and aiming for this one spot is not enough. Not for me at least and I'm sure a lot of others who value their lives more than 50K worth.

He had to wear a parachute. He chose not to deploy it.

 

[jdhebner]

He had to wear a parachute. He chose not to deploy it.

. No. He was required by SAG to put one on and they changed their mind. He took it off in the plane

 

[chicagoskycam]

Big difference between dangerous and insanely reckless. Let's say he dies, so the kid grows up getting to talk about how his dad died jumping out of a plane with no parachute for like $50 k?

You think it was insanely reckless. Maybe due to preparation and his long history of experience he knew it wasn't.

There are risks of course. Same thing with race car drivers, football players, military personal, police officers, crab fisherman and so on and so ...... I guess these guys shouldn't have families either.

 

[Flukeshot]

Most the careers you listed have a purpose.

We're not going to convert each other's opinions here. Call me an overprotective person or parent but I just don't see the need or purpose for this jump. I've got a kid roughly that age and i wouldn't take such an unnecessary risk.

If you read the interview the guy even says he originally said no because of his family. But then it ate away at him and he needed to do it.

 

[Nurmagomedov]

How long does it take to get to terminal velocity? 100 meters? After that it just becomes a pointless aiming exercise.

 

[PredsV82]

My son at one point wanted to be a professional skydiver, and spent a summer in Deland Florida before deciding that he'd rather fly the planes than jump out of them(thank God).

He met a lot of the old school pro skydivers, including a guy who survived a hot air balloon crash like the one recently in Texas, and he said they were all pissed about this guy.

 

[aleshemsky83]

My son at one point wanted to be a professional skydiver, and spent a summer in Deland Florida before deciding that he'd rather fly the planes than jump out of them(thank God).

He met a lot of the old school pro skydivers, including a guy who survived a hot air balloon crash like the one recently in Texas, and he said they were all pissed about this guy.

pissed as in they were jealous or that he was giving skydiving a bad name?

 

[PredsV82]

pissed as in they were jealous or that he was giving skydiving a bad name?

giving skydiving a bad name. i.e., stupid stunt with no purpose, unnecessary risk, copycats will almost certainly result in a death, etc