As a skydiver,I must say that the notion that skydiving is an almost certain death sentence is simply not true.Sure,it is inherently dangerous but I would say safer than BMX riding and perhaps trick skateboarding.Straight up parachute malfunctions are exceedingly rare and human error is the cause of nearly all injuries and fatalities.AADs, recent advances in container design and chute design,better cable routing design(for cut-aways) and years of knowledge and live-and-learn have made it much safer.I believe that there were only 7 deaths attributable to skydiving(not plane malfunction with a load of skydivers)last year.That is the fewest since its conception.And skydivers these days regularly have upward of 20,000 skydives and people with even 100-200 jumps are still newbies.But this man,I'm sure, does this out of a need to break barriers and to simply say,"I did it!!!", and that should be enough.
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As a skydiver,I must say that the notion that skydiving is an almost certain death sentence is simply not true.Sure ,it is inherently dangerous but I would say safer than BMX riding and perhaps trick skateboarding.Straight up parachute malfunctions are exceedingly rare and human error is the cause of nearly all injuries and fatalities.AADs, recent advances in container design and chute design,better cable routing design(for cut-aways) and years of knowledge and live-and-learn have made it much safer.I believe that there were only 7 deaths attributable to skydiving(not plane malfunction with a load of skydivers)last year.That is the fewest since its conception.And skydivers these days regularly have upward of 20,000 skydives and people with even 100-200 jumps are still newbies.But this man,I'm sure, does this out of a need to break barriers and to simply say,"I did it!!!", and that should be enough.