Funny Parachute Advise

[d_goldsmith 1]

I thought this was hilarious, so I'm sharing. I tried to type it exactly as it was, so some words will have a - in them because that was where the line ended.

"The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook"

How to Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open Source: Joe Jennings, skydiving cinematographer and skydiving coordination specialist. He has designed, coordinated, and filmed skydiving stunts for numerous television commercials, including Mountain Dew, Pepsi, MTV Sports, Coca Cola, and ESPN.

1. As soon as you realize that your chute is bad, signal to a jumping companion whose chute has not yet opened that you are having a malfunction. Wave your arms and point to your chute.

2. When your companion (and new best friend) gets to you, hook arms.

3. Once you are hooked together, the two of you will still be falling at terminal velocity, or about 130 miles per hour.
When your friend opens his chute, there will be no way either of you will be able hold on to one another normally, because the G-forces will triple or quadru-ple your body weight. To prepare for this problem, hook your arms into his chest strap, or through the two sides of the front of his harness, all the way up to your elbows, and grab hold of your own strap.

4. Open the chute.
The chute opening shock will be severe, probably enough to dislocate or break your arms.
Steer the canopy.
Your friend must now hold on to you with one arm while steering his canopy (the part of the chute that controls direction and speed).
If your friend's canopy is slow and big, you may hit the grass or dirt slowly enough to break only a leg and your chances of survival are high.
If his canopy is a fast one, however, your friend will have to steer to avoid hitting the ground too fast. You must also avoid power lines and other obstruc-tions at all costs.

[mccordia 74]

Maybe something for the Bonfire (and something that gets reposted there almost every day of the year)

But here is the actual graphic
I scanned it and put it in my ftp dump

http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~fxcordia/photo/fun/skydive_save.gif

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[d_goldsmith 1]

Oh, my bad. BASE Zone is the only part of this forum I read unless there is a link to a thread in another area.

[TomAiello 26]

It also has "How to jump from a high bridge into water."

Several years ago, I was hurt in a high speed impact from a bridge into water. For christmas that year, I received 3 different copies of that book from different family and friends, and all of them had been marked on those two entries.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

[Ms.sofaking 0]

Wow' I'm glad to hear that. I always wondered what I'd do in that situation.Now I know. I hope my companion doesn't have a fast canopy though. That's probably even harder to steer with one arm.

"I'm not sure how it's going to turn out, except I'll die in the end, she said. So what could really go wrong? -----Brian Andreas