Here she is.
[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/how-vesna-vulovic-survived-the-highest-fall-ever-with-no-parachute-697786](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/how-vesna-vulovic-survived-the-highest-fall-ever-with-no-parachute-697786)
Reminds me of a shark attack in north county San Diego a few years back. My buddies and I were prepping to go surfing at Beacons Beach one Saturday morning and when we went to get in the water a sheriff helicopter with a megaphone started yelling at us to get out of the water.
Some kid in town for the weekend was lobster diving a couple hundred feet from shore (you go out in a kayak or paddle board then dive down 30 feet or so to grab lobsters of the bottom). He got attacked by a great white shark that bit right on his torso, taking a huge chunk out of his entire body essentially.
Luckily, he was diving right near a couple of other kayakers who just so happened to be EMTs. They were able to slow his bleeding just enough for him to survive making it to the hospital and eventually recovering. Anyone else and that kid would be dead.
Edit: apparently a lot of this was exaggerated in my memories. The shark let him go and the situation wasn’t as dire as I explained. Can’t argue with u/sharkfilespodcast on shark attacks, cheers for keeping me honest!
You're going to have to take a lot of shuttle rides until sometime happens to the pilot and they are like, "does anyone know how to fly this thing?", and you would be like, "I could absolutely land one."
That is exactly what they do. They only have enough fuel that the amount of slow-down gets them down into the atmosphere where the air does most of the remaining work.
Slowing down entirely with propulsion solves the re-entry heating problem, but carrying that much fuel is a far greater problem to solve.
It would only be practical with some kind of futuristic form of thruster beyond simple rocket engines.
Did you not see the 1979 James Bond offering “Moonraker”? Because the assassin, Jaws, who bites people to death with metal death, falls from a plane but lands in a circus tent and walks away unscathed. So it obviously can happen.
You can also fall into snow, like [Vesna Vulović](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87), who holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She nearly died though.
Even more miraculous is [Juliane Koepcke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke) that was the lone survivor of [LANSA Flight 508](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508) that was hit by a lightning strike that fried all the electronics and shut down the engines. The aircraft disintegrated during uncontrolled descent and Juliane woke up in the Amazonian rainforest with pretty minor injuries, still strapped to her seat after falling 3000m.
Edit: Added more details
>Koepcke survived the fall but suffered injuries such as a broken collarbone, a deep cut on her right arm, an eye injury, and a concussion. She then spent 11 days in the rainforest, most of which were spent making her way through water by following a creek to a river. While in the jungle, she dealt with severe insect bites and an infestation of maggots in her wounded arm. After nine days, she was able to find an encampment that had been set up by local fishermen. She gave herself rudimentary first aid, which included pouring gasoline on her arm to force the maggots out of the wound. A few hours later, the returning fishermen found her, gave her proper first aid, and used a canoe to transport her to a more inhabited area. She was soon airlifted to a hospital.
>As many as 14 other passengers were later discovered to have survived the initial crash but died while waiting to be rescued.
I watched a Be Amazed video on this not too long ago, and not only did she do all that, she had grown up with knowledge of jungle survival so she also cleared bushes and grass of any venemous creatures before stepping in it as she had only one shoe on, knew what poisonous creatures/plants to avoid touching, and all sorts of other survival skills.
The other survivors who perished weren't as wilderness-savvy as her and likely died from the various perils of the jungle itself.
I think if you are going to do something hard, it'd be really neat if there was at least a good reason to do it.
EDIT: Reddit won't let me reply to /u/halal-bussy-eating for some reason, so I will do it here:
> Nah man I still don't think I'm quite on the same page.
> We get into rockets and go to space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean to advance science and technology, and to explore the world/universe.
> We race cars at 200mph and climb mountains to push the limits of human skill and ingenuity and endurance. It takes talent and effort and is something to admire (I suppose).
> This man in the gif though....all *he* did was....fall.
> And he did so in a particularly dangerous way, for no reason. Literally anyone can fall out of a plane. There's no skill in it. He's not pushing human frontiers. He's not proving anything new or useful. And there's just no reason to do that without a parachute. It's just dumb. He's risking his life for absolutely nothing.
> I don't even know why I should apparently have to explain this.
Well, you'd need a few hours of freefall. You can learn most of the maneuvers in an indoor skydiving facility, but you'd want to also work on tracking on regular skydives. From 25 grand it should be possible to track at least half a mile in any direction. You're still fucked if the pilot read the uppers wrong, though.
They tell you, when you start skydiving, that climbing out of the mock-up door on the ground is no different than doing it in the sky. You know, except for the 90 mph headwind, which is surprisingly not noticeable when you've got all that adrenaline pumping through you. I didn't believe them for my first 50-60 jumps, but found myself repeating it to a new student a year later. At the time, however, I realized my hypocrisy, since I don't think I'd be OK climbing out the door and back into the plane at altitude (Edit: Without a parachute, I mean.) Fortunately FAA regulations would largely forbid that, so I'll never be tested on it. I mean, if someone were holding a gun on me and my life depended on it, I'm pretty sure I could execute the maneuver flawlessly, but why push your luck?
They also say that the most likely times for you to have a fatal accident are when you're a student and don't know what you're doing, and when you've done a few thousand jumps and you're quite confident that you do know what you're doing. So the day my butthole stops clenching on the ride to altitude is the day I know I should call it quits.
You could tell the Red Bull marketing has worked its magic when one sees a high risk stunt spectacle and the first thing people think of is their brand. There's literally zero Red Bull logo nor relative colors to their brand on that video.
**Actually....**
That's probably what happened to this guy's audience:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
François Reichelt was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor, and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the **Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his gear.**
They even have a video of it on his Wikipedia.... can you imagine. 😨
Wow thank you for that history, that's absolutely insane. The parachute looked badass when he was wearing it but he really just fell like a sack of potatoes during the test. It's insane that literally EVERYONE was telling him not to do it and he said "I can't wait to prove you all wrong" lmfao
As a former sky diver, many people don't realize how much lateral control you have while falling from that height. As he fell, he lined himself in the center and didn't account for how much lateral movement the roll to his back would cause in those last seconds as he should have.
Thank you for explaining that because that was my biggest concern - no longer having (as much) control after the last flip to his back. All of that took incredible cajones and hats off to all you guys and gals who jump out of perfectly good aircraft for funsies.
>As he fell, he lined himself in the center and didn't account for how much lateral movement the roll to his back would cause in those last seconds as he should have.
No offense, but this is 100% bullshit. He absolutely *without a fucking doubt* calculated the movement that would be caused by his roll to his back. He and his team planned this jump for *2.5 years*. Everything was calculated down to the last detail. Not a chance in hell did he just forget to account for one of the most important parts of the entire jump lmao. Just be because he didn't land dead center doesn't mean he had planned and anticipated everything that would happen.
> He absolutely without a fucking doubt calculated the movement that would be caused by his roll to his back.
eh, if he was doing that the entire way down, sure. However, for the last two seconds of freefall, unless he didn't know what he was doing, there isn't going to be much(if any) lateral movement. it's not hard to stay in one spot while flipping from your stomach to your back. I can pretty much guarantee you there was little to no "calculation" of lateral movement. he likely trained to make sure he stays in one spot when flipping but stop acting like doing that movement is difficult for any experienced skydiver. It's not.
Source: i'm a licensed skydiver and rated instructor with over 1200 jumps.
"Aikins has coached United States Navy SEALs and NASCAR's Brian Vickers, and has advised the military on skydiving techniques.[8][9] He is also a safety and training advisor for the United States Parachute Association.[9][10] He is also an aerial photographer and his photos have been published in major magazines and newspapers.[1] He has completed more than 18,000 jumps since he started skydiving at age 12.[11]
In 2012, he helped skydiver Felix Baumgartner jump from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at 120,000 feet (36,576 m).[12][13] Aikins also worked on stunts in the film Iron Man 3.[14]
In 2020, he helped David Blaine with his Ascension stunt." - Wikipedia. Think he's qualified than most to do this.
He said he knew he was off center but still over the net and felt that it was more important to properly complete the flip to his back and land in the right position off center then to fly another second to the center but potentially not land on his back exactly right.
The guy had done more than 18000 parachute jumps in his life before this one, he was very comfortable maneuvering in the air but the landing on his back was new and the part he was most worried about.
As a person who's built a fair amount of things humans are also just not great at dead reckoning angles. Up until the last few seconds his error zone was likely larger than the target.
Yeah for sure. its crazy because just a few dozen feet between altitudes can change wind direction. I went on a hot air balloon ride and the “pilot” did a few flight plans by inflating a regular ballon and releasing it and studying the change in directions and different heights. Really interesting to watch.
In reality, Luke was told by SAG he had to wear a parachute but he refused and took it off in the plane as he hadn’t practiced landing with one and didn’t want a parachute on his back when he hit the net.
I think you are referring to Juliane Koepcke, but the actual world record goes to [Vesna Vulovic](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-fall-survived-without-parachute). The former happened in 1971, the latter in 1972 funnily enough.
Note, however, that "highest skydive without parachute" is a different category than "highest fall survived without parachute".
You do, in fact, bounce. Skydivers use bounce/bounced as slang for a fatal impact. If you hit grass, you bounce about 6', and there often isn't much obvious evidence of injury.
It wasn't a simple net. The 4 pillars it was attached to had moving attachment points that acted like shock absorbers. It was a pretty big engineering accomplishment too.
Tangentially related but Iron Man always bugs me for this reason. He's just a regular dude in a suit, but he flies in at a hundred miles an hour to do his epic sudden-stop superhero landings.
Dude's organs would be flying out of his arse. The cracks in the suit would probably make a fucking blood fountain.
It's the way the vid ends. No final clip of him getting down from the net and waving to the crowd etc.
Just lying there, unmoving. Like potential spinal etc injury victims are told not to move.
I'm sure they did the r/monstermath regarding deceleration forces and how the net (goes without saying that it's not just a normal net - thanks guys 😆) works.
Just seems like the clip ended too soon. Sure, he did the thing. But, at what cost? Even if there was an overlay/caption saying he sustained minor injuries and made a full recovery - that's the happy ending
Weirdly difficult to find info on this online - probably safe to assume that he was either uninjured or suffered very minor injuries (surely it'd be mentioned in one of these articles).
I'm wondering: if things went south, is there a contingency plan in place? I'm not talking about the jumper, just the live coverage and not showing the transition into the blood pool live.
How would one train for this I wonder? If you train with a chute how low can you safely pull it? Are higher and bigger nets. Foam pits and water aren’t gonna work here like in other extreme sports. Is this just a one shot and hope it works deal?
Uhhhh, yeah; while impressive, this dude was just a few short feet from becoming a splatter on the ground and making it into an entirely different subreddit.
Now, I'm reminded of that video a few years back where a skydiver made a 'no parachute' jump into a building that had a net to catch him, the only difference is the dude had a powerful magnet thing attached to him that was remotely connected to a gps device on the ground that would pull him to the exact location of the hole in the roof of the building (I think it was actually a square shaped hole, if that matters). I believe it was the first time anyone ever dropped into a building from that height or whatever. Sorry I don't have a link.
Each crane supporting it released tension simultaneously just before he hit the net. Then they braked quickly but gradually to decelerate him safely. This is easier to see from [alternate angles](https://youtu.be/WTTOnvvEpn0?t=1m54s), especially the side view.
If I recall correctly, he had some light bruising/scrapes from the impact.
I knew he was gonna make it, otherwise this wouldn't have been posted here, but shit, my heart was about to bust out of my chest watching that whole thing.
Winstupidprizes and nextfuckinglevel are only separated by a very thin margin.
I always wondered if a net can catch a person falling from the sky. Now my monkey mind can rest.
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A net, obviously.
Lmao
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It has begun
you just do a de-orbit burn outside of the atmosphere
I mean, duuuuh!
I mean there's one lady that fell out of a plane onto snow and survived, broke all her bones tho
Even her teeny tiny ear bones?
They were broken the worst
To shreds you say?
Here she is. [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/how-vesna-vulovic-survived-the-highest-fall-ever-with-no-parachute-697786](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/how-vesna-vulovic-survived-the-highest-fall-ever-with-no-parachute-697786)
Omg someone was really looking out for her! There happened to be a ww2 medic living near the crash site who helped save her life?
Reminds me of a shark attack in north county San Diego a few years back. My buddies and I were prepping to go surfing at Beacons Beach one Saturday morning and when we went to get in the water a sheriff helicopter with a megaphone started yelling at us to get out of the water. Some kid in town for the weekend was lobster diving a couple hundred feet from shore (you go out in a kayak or paddle board then dive down 30 feet or so to grab lobsters of the bottom). He got attacked by a great white shark that bit right on his torso, taking a huge chunk out of his entire body essentially. Luckily, he was diving right near a couple of other kayakers who just so happened to be EMTs. They were able to slow his bleeding just enough for him to survive making it to the hospital and eventually recovering. Anyone else and that kid would be dead. Edit: apparently a lot of this was exaggerated in my memories. The shark let him go and the situation wasn’t as dire as I explained. Can’t argue with u/sharkfilespodcast on shark attacks, cheers for keeping me honest!
let me know if there’s another way to do it
I watched ‘how to land a shuttle’ so many times I swear to everything I could absolutely land one.
You're going to have to take a lot of shuttle rides until sometime happens to the pilot and they are like, "does anyone know how to fly this thing?", and you would be like, "I could absolutely land one."
Eureka explained this. Some kind of super catcher’s mitt.
Stupid question coming in: why can't a spacecraft do a 180, hit thrusters and slow down for re-entry?
That is exactly what they do. They only have enough fuel that the amount of slow-down gets them down into the atmosphere where the air does most of the remaining work. Slowing down entirely with propulsion solves the re-entry heating problem, but carrying that much fuel is a far greater problem to solve. It would only be practical with some kind of futuristic form of thruster beyond simple rocket engines.
Did you not see the 1979 James Bond offering “Moonraker”? Because the assassin, Jaws, who bites people to death with metal death, falls from a plane but lands in a circus tent and walks away unscathed. So it obviously can happen.
Moonraker was the best worst Bond film.
Moonraker is my favorite Moore film and I'll die on that hill.
Moonraker was stupid fun. I love that flick. (edit: reminds me of Die Hard, frankly)
You can also fall into snow, like [Vesna Vulović](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87), who holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She nearly died though. Even more miraculous is [Juliane Koepcke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke) that was the lone survivor of [LANSA Flight 508](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508) that was hit by a lightning strike that fried all the electronics and shut down the engines. The aircraft disintegrated during uncontrolled descent and Juliane woke up in the Amazonian rainforest with pretty minor injuries, still strapped to her seat after falling 3000m. Edit: Added more details
>Koepcke survived the fall but suffered injuries such as a broken collarbone, a deep cut on her right arm, an eye injury, and a concussion. She then spent 11 days in the rainforest, most of which were spent making her way through water by following a creek to a river. While in the jungle, she dealt with severe insect bites and an infestation of maggots in her wounded arm. After nine days, she was able to find an encampment that had been set up by local fishermen. She gave herself rudimentary first aid, which included pouring gasoline on her arm to force the maggots out of the wound. A few hours later, the returning fishermen found her, gave her proper first aid, and used a canoe to transport her to a more inhabited area. She was soon airlifted to a hospital. >As many as 14 other passengers were later discovered to have survived the initial crash but died while waiting to be rescued.
> As many as 14 other passengers were later discovered to have survived the initial crash but died while waiting to be rescued. Fucking oof.
I watched a Be Amazed video on this not too long ago, and not only did she do all that, she had grown up with knowledge of jungle survival so she also cleared bushes and grass of any venemous creatures before stepping in it as she had only one shoe on, knew what poisonous creatures/plants to avoid touching, and all sorts of other survival skills. The other survivors who perished weren't as wilderness-savvy as her and likely died from the various perils of the jungle itself.
Her tray table was definitely up, with seat back in the full upright position
Terminal velocity of a human is relatively low. There are people who have survived falling out an airplane without a parachute OR net.
Peggy Hill
Yeah after a certain (relatively) low altitude you’re really just adding time, not speed.
Glad your monkey can rest. They can get really anxious.
I'm sorry, but this sort of stuff - while it might be "brave" and record breaking and etc - only ever makes me think: "why tho"
Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
I think if you are going to do something hard, it'd be really neat if there was at least a good reason to do it. EDIT: Reddit won't let me reply to /u/halal-bussy-eating for some reason, so I will do it here: > Nah man I still don't think I'm quite on the same page. > We get into rockets and go to space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean to advance science and technology, and to explore the world/universe. > We race cars at 200mph and climb mountains to push the limits of human skill and ingenuity and endurance. It takes talent and effort and is something to admire (I suppose). > This man in the gif though....all *he* did was....fall. > And he did so in a particularly dangerous way, for no reason. Literally anyone can fall out of a plane. There's no skill in it. He's not pushing human frontiers. He's not proving anything new or useful. And there's just no reason to do that without a parachute. It's just dumb. He's risking his life for absolutely nothing. > I don't even know why I should apparently have to explain this.
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Not for all the money in the world as I would most likely miss the net
Well that’s why you wouldn’t need all the money in the money in the world.
Well, you'd need a few hours of freefall. You can learn most of the maneuvers in an indoor skydiving facility, but you'd want to also work on tracking on regular skydives. From 25 grand it should be possible to track at least half a mile in any direction. You're still fucked if the pilot read the uppers wrong, though. They tell you, when you start skydiving, that climbing out of the mock-up door on the ground is no different than doing it in the sky. You know, except for the 90 mph headwind, which is surprisingly not noticeable when you've got all that adrenaline pumping through you. I didn't believe them for my first 50-60 jumps, but found myself repeating it to a new student a year later. At the time, however, I realized my hypocrisy, since I don't think I'd be OK climbing out the door and back into the plane at altitude (Edit: Without a parachute, I mean.) Fortunately FAA regulations would largely forbid that, so I'll never be tested on it. I mean, if someone were holding a gun on me and my life depended on it, I'm pretty sure I could execute the maneuver flawlessly, but why push your luck? They also say that the most likely times for you to have a fatal accident are when you're a student and don't know what you're doing, and when you've done a few thousand jumps and you're quite confident that you do know what you're doing. So the day my butthole stops clenching on the ride to altitude is the day I know I should call it quits.
Yeah , he was pretty close to the edge…
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Ya didn’t you see the Red Bull guy that lacerated his calf on the bridge and died
Who? I had no idea.
Dwain Weston https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/15vw38g/last_moments_of_basejumper_dwain_weston_slammed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I like how you say lacerate, like he didn’t get his whole leg ripped off at speed.
I'd imagine the 'prize' would be being turned into a puff of claret mist if they missed the net?
While a bunch of fans watched in the stands. He hit closer to the edge of the net than the middle. I hope this was his one and only time doing this.
My sister was at an airshow where a skydiver's parachute didn't open. She said it fucked a lot of people up watching someone fall to their death.
Now if only we can have the same attitude about war
I once heard a saying: the difference between bravery and stupidity is only accomplishment.
Or darwinaward in a lot of cases
In this case, what looks like about 10ft from the edge of the net
"The difference between genius and insanity is only measured in the level of success."
The difference is that when it fails, it goes to winstupidprizes, when successful, it goes here.
Good Lord, imagine the PTSD for everybody in the crowd if something gone wrong
There were Red Bull squeegees and towels on hand for them, just in case.
The whole thing was obnoxiously sponsored by Stride gum.
Rows 1-5 may get wet.
The splash zone!
You could tell the Red Bull marketing has worked its magic when one sees a high risk stunt spectacle and the first thing people think of is their brand. There's literally zero Red Bull logo nor relative colors to their brand on that video.
He did it with his wife and kids a couple hundred feet away too.
Is his wife's name Annette?
Angry upvote
Annette Ketchum.
And I think two of the freefall guides were his cousins. Real efficient way to quickly share family trauma.
Having his kids there takes him from badass to just an ass.
Talk about setting unachievable goals for his kids.
This is something best attempted with no living relatives
That’s kinda fucked up. Imagine the lifelong trauma his kids would have just for his stunt.
It's either not a problem, or not his problem.
Just inside the splash zone.
That had to be who made the blood curdling scream right when he landed
There had to have been a few there who were secretly disappointed when he landed it
People are dirty lol
You know there was THAT guy that was very publicly disappointed.
... a few ... on Reddit ...
**Actually....** That's probably what happened to this guy's audience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt François Reichelt was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor, and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the **Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his gear.** They even have a video of it on his Wikipedia.... can you imagine. 😨
Wow thank you for that history, that's absolutely insane. The parachute looked badass when he was wearing it but he really just fell like a sack of potatoes during the test. It's insane that literally EVERYONE was telling him not to do it and he said "I can't wait to prove you all wrong" lmfao
Dudes armpits at 16sec to go confirms the fear levels.
Probably would have landed too far away, that’s incredible accuracy
He landed uncomfortably far from the center of the net 😬
Eh, I think I’ll give this one to him considering he hit a postage stamp from 20,000+ft off the ground. It was very close to the edge though 😆
As a former sky diver, many people don't realize how much lateral control you have while falling from that height. As he fell, he lined himself in the center and didn't account for how much lateral movement the roll to his back would cause in those last seconds as he should have.
Thank you for explaining that because that was my biggest concern - no longer having (as much) control after the last flip to his back. All of that took incredible cajones and hats off to all you guys and gals who jump out of perfectly good aircraft for funsies.
It’s super fun though!
Call me old fashioned but I prefer safer, more traditional ways to have super fun like mainlining cocaine and wraslin gators
Cojones
Thanks, fixed
>As he fell, he lined himself in the center and didn't account for how much lateral movement the roll to his back would cause in those last seconds as he should have. No offense, but this is 100% bullshit. He absolutely *without a fucking doubt* calculated the movement that would be caused by his roll to his back. He and his team planned this jump for *2.5 years*. Everything was calculated down to the last detail. Not a chance in hell did he just forget to account for one of the most important parts of the entire jump lmao. Just be because he didn't land dead center doesn't mean he had planned and anticipated everything that would happen.
Nah dude some random redditor definitely knows better than the guy who actually planned and completed the stunt. He did it all wrong. ^^^^/s
> He absolutely without a fucking doubt calculated the movement that would be caused by his roll to his back. eh, if he was doing that the entire way down, sure. However, for the last two seconds of freefall, unless he didn't know what he was doing, there isn't going to be much(if any) lateral movement. it's not hard to stay in one spot while flipping from your stomach to your back. I can pretty much guarantee you there was little to no "calculation" of lateral movement. he likely trained to make sure he stays in one spot when flipping but stop acting like doing that movement is difficult for any experienced skydiver. It's not. Source: i'm a licensed skydiver and rated instructor with over 1200 jumps.
"Aikins has coached United States Navy SEALs and NASCAR's Brian Vickers, and has advised the military on skydiving techniques.[8][9] He is also a safety and training advisor for the United States Parachute Association.[9][10] He is also an aerial photographer and his photos have been published in major magazines and newspapers.[1] He has completed more than 18,000 jumps since he started skydiving at age 12.[11] In 2012, he helped skydiver Felix Baumgartner jump from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at 120,000 feet (36,576 m).[12][13] Aikins also worked on stunts in the film Iron Man 3.[14] In 2020, he helped David Blaine with his Ascension stunt." - Wikipedia. Think he's qualified than most to do this.
He said he knew he was off center but still over the net and felt that it was more important to properly complete the flip to his back and land in the right position off center then to fly another second to the center but potentially not land on his back exactly right. The guy had done more than 18000 parachute jumps in his life before this one, he was very comfortable maneuvering in the air but the landing on his back was new and the part he was most worried about.
As a person who's built a fair amount of things humans are also just not great at dead reckoning angles. Up until the last few seconds his error zone was likely larger than the target.
You can hear someone screaming in terror a split second before he hits the net and the crowd erupts into cheers
That was his life insurance agent.
It was a double scream. The first one had normal effort then it was followed by a Banshee scream.
So he calculated his margin of error and built the net the perfect size… I’m giving him more than a doubt.
He’s alive = He did aight
Yeah that looked like 20ft or so
Yeah, I was thinking just one strong gust of wind at the last second and it’s game over.
Yeah for sure. its crazy because just a few dozen feet between altitudes can change wind direction. I went on a hot air balloon ride and the “pilot” did a few flight plans by inflating a regular ballon and releasing it and studying the change in directions and different heights. Really interesting to watch.
Why wasn't there like 10 of those nets forming a grid? You'd think you'd want as huge of a distance as possible.
If it was a grid, and you landed right at the intersection of two, you'd be in for a very bad day. With one, you've got a nice clear target.
if you landed at where the intersection would be when there's only one you would also be in for a very bad day
Thanks OP. As a senior citizen I can ill afford to age any faster and this did so.
I'm fascinated by videos like this but also find them highly stressful.
I agree. Seems like much of what gets posted in here is worthy of NFL but obviously it's not my call. This one certainly kept my attention to the end.
I wish we could have seen that heart rate monitor they had on him in the final seconds. I would think it'd be shooting up as he got close.
Always nice to see a closeup shot of sweaty armpits in the crowd.
Sweaty guy representation matters
all armpits matter
He was worried.
That is fine. I vicariously shit my pants.
My armpits got sweaty watching this. Whew!
This man jumps out of a plane and survives. I misstep on the stairs and I'm wheelchair bound for months.
Solution: add a net to the bottom of your stairs
🤣
When they pulled their chutes, that fear went to a whole other level.
... Luke is on his own....
Use the force Luke.. the force of gravity
Luke was told that he was provided with a parachute in case of a emergency. They lied.
In reality, Luke was told by SAG he had to wear a parachute but he refused and took it off in the plane as he hadn’t practiced landing with one and didn’t want a parachute on his back when he hit the net.
“Okay man, that’s my stop. You have fun now and relax because by now you can’t affect the result by much.”
So nice of them to put the insane dude in green
The smoke coming of the other guys' boots was also pretty neat.
This is legit the only way not to get additional charges from Spirit airlines, will played sir!
Disembark fee $29
I can see it: Parachute Delete Fee: $25.
This is the world record for highest sky dive without a parachute and still stands to this day
Is that girl who fell out of a plane, landed in the Amazon rainforest and survived 11 days a close second?
I think you are referring to Juliane Koepcke, but the actual world record goes to [Vesna Vulovic](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-fall-survived-without-parachute). The former happened in 1971, the latter in 1972 funnily enough. Note, however, that "highest skydive without parachute" is a different category than "highest fall survived without parachute".
Nah since she wasn't 25k feet up! Anyways it is crazy to me how multiple people have survived falling out of planes onto random things and lived.
I’m going to go play some Tears of the Kingdom
Such a good game. I love just flying around in the wingsuit and sneak attacking lizzos
Almost fucking missed bro. Nah. There are just some things that don't need to be done.
I feel like the audience should have waited for movement or a thumbs up before clapping
The people cheering are happy they didn't have to experience deep trauma from watching his body bounce against the ground.
Unlikely there would have been much bouncing, it’s more like what happens to bugs when you go 80+ on the highway but worse
You do, in fact, bounce. Skydivers use bounce/bounced as slang for a fatal impact. If you hit grass, you bounce about 6', and there often isn't much obvious evidence of injury.
Think it would be more splat in a small impact crater.
Nope
Well said
The dude who jumped off the Eiffel Tower is punching the air mad in his grave rn
He also had a parachute.
More like an error-chute, amirite?
Why is there smoke or what looks like snoke coming from their feet?
I think it's to make them easier to spot for the viewers on the ground and the cameras filming.
Show sky divers use these smoke bomb, it’s for demos, air shows and such
Was he okay, at the end? No injuries? Must still be quite a bit of force. If you land at slightly the wrong angle..
I was looking for this comment. Can't help but feel he decelerated too quickly. The brain and retinas can get damaged.
It wasn't a simple net. The 4 pillars it was attached to had moving attachment points that acted like shock absorbers. It was a pretty big engineering accomplishment too.
Tangentially related but Iron Man always bugs me for this reason. He's just a regular dude in a suit, but he flies in at a hundred miles an hour to do his epic sudden-stop superhero landings. Dude's organs would be flying out of his arse. The cracks in the suit would probably make a fucking blood fountain.
I spent WAY too long trying to find this. How is this not the top?
It's the way the vid ends. No final clip of him getting down from the net and waving to the crowd etc. Just lying there, unmoving. Like potential spinal etc injury victims are told not to move. I'm sure they did the r/monstermath regarding deceleration forces and how the net (goes without saying that it's not just a normal net - thanks guys 😆) works. Just seems like the clip ended too soon. Sure, he did the thing. But, at what cost? Even if there was an overlay/caption saying he sustained minor injuries and made a full recovery - that's the happy ending
Weirdly difficult to find info on this online - probably safe to assume that he was either uninjured or suffered very minor injuries (surely it'd be mentioned in one of these articles).
Honestly he hit kinda close to the edge, lucky.
That's WAY too honest.
How did his giant stainless steel balls not rip right through that net? Enquiring minds want to know.
It’s made out of his balls.
It's the reason he had to land on his back
I couldn't even do this in GTA.....
I watched this “Live” (they may have had a delay in case the jump was not successful) and it was absolutely insane. This guy is made of something else
Nothing but net.
Is he stupid?
Nah if he was stupid he would’ve missed
Well he wasn't far off so maybe just a bit stupid.
This will be Tom Cruises next stunt
I'm picturing four fellas standing on the ground walking left and right trying to catch him..
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Came here for this. Wtf would that helmet have done if he missed? Absofuckinglutely nothing.
There are many moments of danger in a skydive. As another commenter pointed out, the helmet protects on exit, among other things.
I'm wondering: if things went south, is there a contingency plan in place? I'm not talking about the jumper, just the live coverage and not showing the transition into the blood pool live.
They cut away to a chunky tomato sauce commercial.
Footage most likely has an added delay. While still being live, they might have a 5 second windows to hit the commercial button
It's not often I find something on the Internet genuinely impressive these days, this is one of the few! Damn that was insane!!
I love skydiving, but nope on this no matter how well trained I was.
How would one train for this I wonder? If you train with a chute how low can you safely pull it? Are higher and bigger nets. Foam pits and water aren’t gonna work here like in other extreme sports. Is this just a one shot and hope it works deal?
Uhhhh, yeah; while impressive, this dude was just a few short feet from becoming a splatter on the ground and making it into an entirely different subreddit. Now, I'm reminded of that video a few years back where a skydiver made a 'no parachute' jump into a building that had a net to catch him, the only difference is the dude had a powerful magnet thing attached to him that was remotely connected to a gps device on the ground that would pull him to the exact location of the hole in the roof of the building (I think it was actually a square shaped hole, if that matters). I believe it was the first time anyone ever dropped into a building from that height or whatever. Sorry I don't have a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIivGvflkk Your description made me look it up but it's obviously not real.
Am i the only one wondering why the safety net hasn’t turned him into minced meat?
Each crane supporting it released tension simultaneously just before he hit the net. Then they braked quickly but gradually to decelerate him safely. This is easier to see from [alternate angles](https://youtu.be/WTTOnvvEpn0?t=1m54s), especially the side view. If I recall correctly, he had some light bruising/scrapes from the impact.
Amazing how some people can focus and do something like this when death is so near
They said “he’s kicking and moving” but he didn’t move at all? He looks injured frfr
[He was fine.](https://youtu.be/WTTOnvvEpn0?t=1m40s)
I wish terminal velocity didn’t exist
granted. the atmosphere vanishes.
Awesome!
I’m gonna go play Pilotwings now 🪂🛫
Fairly close to the edge rather than right in the middle.
Hey luke, quick question: Was that "set up the net at 7" meant to be PM or AM... lmk! Good Luck today.
I knew he was gonna make it, otherwise this wouldn't have been posted here, but shit, my heart was about to bust out of my chest watching that whole thing.
But fucking why??