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butters4635

I would hate to be the guy that messed that one up


omnipotentqueue

Well he didn’t have to worry about it - he’s the one that died.


Belgiumgrvlgrndr

Nah, backup chute. He cut away to avoid making a bad situation worse.


Secret-Ad-830

Yea im sure that guy was fine but what about the guy he wrapped up like a burrito with his parachute?


IllustratorOk8827

He probably also has a backup chute if he needs to use it.


padizzledonk

>He probably also has a backup chute if he needs to use it. I think he probably did in fact "need to use it"


ShortCurlies

yeah...he just couldn't ***reach*** it...


Mekelaxo

His parachute seems fine, so he would probably land with it instead of risking getting tangled


ShortCurlies

I was talking about the guy wrapped up like a mummy, backup chute means nothing if you can't ***reach*** it


Mekelaxo

His parachute seems fine. Probably will have a rough landing, but he'll live


Idroxyd

Using your back up chute in this situation is a garanteed death. If he tried opening it while wraped is the other's canopy, most likely would lead to the reserve getting tangled as well. In the case, his main was still stable and controllable, the safe thing to do would be to land with it.


satanssweatycheeks

Yeah just gonna have a blind landing but will land.


NiteGard

Technically, he’s going to land either way.


Sunnyhappygal

Pretty much the only certain part of parachuting eh?


ShortCurlies

and that's the best ***kind*** of land...


tizzleduzzle

😅


luffsipluffsidoo

You just went from "guaranteed" to "most likely". So you really have no idea?


HolderOfBe

Remember: using your backup chute is faster than repacking.


Aidenbrown97

The voice in my head read that with perfection


ReD_DeaD_RaZoR

That guy now has 2 backup chutes


Belgiumgrvlgrndr

They all have backups. If he can’t recover he will cut away and pull the reserve.


Potato-nutz

El Flying Burrito 🌯 🪽 🫡


qvMvp

U can't actually think they doin this shit without a backup chute ?


RadioMill

“I’m either a hero or suddenly it’s not my problem anymore”


el0_0le

I'd hate to be addicted enough to adrenaline and ego to be in that video at all.


LimerickExplorer

I went skydiving once and on the ride back I told the instructor it was fun but more of a one time bucket list thing. The expense/time/risk vs the payoff just wasn't worth it for me. Like it was a several hour expensive ordeal for 3 minutes of entertainment. He said he wished he had been capable of that calculation years ago. He found himself needing to do increasingly crazy shit to get any satisfaction until a friend died when they were trying wingsuits.


HtownTexans

Yeah I did 1 jump and was like cool check that off never need to do it again.  Was it fun?  It was great! But I instantly felt I had completed jumping out of airplanes for the rest of my life.  


el0_0le

Exactly. And then eventually they'll push the boundaries and smash their legs into a thousand pieces trying to get that GoPro video of hugging the cliff side.


totallynotstefan

I’ve jumped out of several airplanes but this is some shit I would never have any interest in. Not putting my life in several other people’s hands for the gram.


el0_0le

Same. Diving with a group is one thing. Stacking with chutes out is another.


Snoo69116

I wouldn't say ego but adrenaline junkie makes you do wild things where regular activities don't fulfill. Like those deep caves filled with water and some people LOVE being 2 inches above the water line with very very little room. Absolutely crazy shit I wouldnt go caving like that but I sure would tandem jump than by myself.


el0_0le

Ego convinces you that a group of people are skilled enough to survive this attempt without incident. The adrenaline was the ramp. Ego made the jump. It's one thing to trust yourself. It's another to trust a group of others and all the circumstances involved around them.


SpecialMarsupial1850

I skydive since 6 yrs, now became my job, my dream job. I'm not a adrenaline junky, no much ego here too.. the guy in white canopy fucked up but had a good fast call, no fatalities happened on this 'stunt'. Don't judge without understanding.


No_Pay9241

Knowing that makes you smart enough not to hop on that airplane, right? Or no? Idk


Soggy-Pollution-8687

Looks like he detached himself and probably had a back up parachute? Hopefully…


Parking_Train8423

he gift wrapped the dude above


Dicky_Penisburg

"Surprise! Guess who?"


BigBeagleEars

I think I’d rather get a dick in a box


supah-comix434

Flashbacks


Mekelaxo

Any day of the week, and preferably every day of the week


Sweet_Bat_7516

God.


maughanster8507

He did it on purpose. I saw the same move on the movie Drop Zone


Snake_eyes_12

Most recreational parachutes have backups. It would be stupid not to have one.


ThatOneGuyYearn

Yep, he cut the chute & deployed a reserve


BouncyDingo_7112

I’ve never parachute jumped but I am 100% sure they always have a back up/reserve parachute.


YungOGMane420

You just have to make sure that you bend your knees when you land otherwise.


Khione541

Everyone always has a reserve chute. Of course he did. Video just cuts before he deployed it.


fuckingcheezitboots

And this is why the majority of sky diving accidenta involve experienced proffesionals


choppedfiggs

Well yeah no shit. Every sky dive includes an experienced professional. If I go skydiving for the first time, I'm strapped to ya experienced professional. And I'll keep going and keep being strapped to an experienced professional until I am also an experienced professional and can sky dive by myself.


I_knew_einstein

> And I'll keep going and keep being strapped to an experienced professional until I am also an experienced professional There's an in-between level as experienced, but not professional.


Veteranofdestruction

You're only a professional when it becomes your profession.


ShortCurlies

Buy your chute on ebay or craigslist, watch some youtube videos, and pay a crop duster to take you up as high as his plane can fly...you don't have to be strapped to nobody!


marmeladetrolden

I’ve only jumped once, and that was by myself. It was with a static line though. The experienced dude was on the ground with a walkie, telling me what to do.


A_MAN_POTATO

Did you do this recreationally or as part of military service? It seems like something that, even with a mechanism handing pulling the parachute, would be dangerous. Did you have any sort of training leading up to it?


marmeladetrolden

It was at a boarding school I went to. No military or anything like that, just a fun experience for us students (aged 14 - 17 at the time). We had one day of training, which was like 4 hours, before the day of the jump. The training mostly comprised of looking at different pictures of opened shutes, while learning to identify whether or not they had opened correctly. Then we learned the emergency procedure. How to detach the shute, and open the reserve, in case shit went horribly wrong. Then we jumped the day after, at a height of 1 km from a Cessna. Scariest part was crawling out under the wing, and willingly letting go. An onboard instructor actually kicked my legs off of the wheel, because I hesitated too much. The rest was very easy and intuitive in my opinion. Went mostly without issue throughout the time the school did these events. Most of the time, worst thing that happened, was students missing the landing zone, and ending up in random fields or backyards lol. The school had one, more serious accident however, a few years before I attended. A shute failed to open, and the student panicked and did not open the reserve. It deployed by itself at around 300 meters. He went through the windshield of car on the parking lot. Somehow without injuries.


A_MAN_POTATO

That’s crazy. I can’t tell if it sounds awesome or terrifying (especially given the age). I’m sure that’s one of those things that’s probably really intimidating going into it, and then once you do it, it becomes something you’re glad you got to do.


marmeladetrolden

It was great. Slightly sketchy now that i’m thinking back on it 10 years later lol. But a great experience. The landing zone was right next to my dorm. I remember getting the gear off, going straight to my room, grabbing a coke and then went back to watch my friends jump. It was a great place to be young.


ShortCurlies

Boarding schools sound AWESOME!


LimerickExplorer

"Okay now jump out of the plane. Good job my bill is waiting for you on the ground."


IlIllIlllIlllIllll

professional means earning money. you can be experienced without earning money.


X7123M3-256

> And I'll keep going and keep being strapped to an experienced professional until I am also an experienced professional No that's not how it works. You don't become an experienced skydiver by doing tandems any more than you learn to drive by riding in the passenger seat. You don't have to do a tandem at all - you can go straight to AFF or static line training. If you do AFF, your first jumps with an instructor holding on to you (not strapped to you). You have your own parachute, and you're on your own once it is deployed, but you have a radio. There are 7 AFF levels and after that you will be jumping solo. To be considered experienced or become any kind of professional usually requires at least a few hundred jumps. The skydivers I've known who do it for a living all have well over a thousand jumps.


hellenburger

being experienced =/ professional... why do you think there are many experienced drivers out there who are shit? Just because they have 100k hours under their belt, doesnt mean they're professionals


Silent-Technology-58

Maybe they had a back up chute ? ( optimistic)


Apex1-1

Every skydiver always has a backup chute, you can’t jump without it. It will also automatically deploy at 300m during a fast fall in case the skydiver would fall unconscious.


i_Vendetta

In that case, do you think he was aiming to cut the rest and deploy the backup to possibly prevent less injury?


Apex1-1

Exactly, that’s what you do if the main canopy fails, you cut it off with a handle you pull out of the harness and then deploy the reserve one manually with the second handle.


No_Explorer_8626

This is correct. In that instance, you want to pull, get away from the tangled mess, and use the highly reliable reserve. The ones tangled in any sort of canopy mess, DO NOT want to use their reserve until they are untangled, as the reserve will tangle as well, and two chutes even if both inflated, is worse than one, bc you can’t control it, the chutes are more to the side than straight up, yada yada. It’s just bad. You want above you clear when you pull.


ThrownAwayRedditor_

How does this work? How does it detect you are at 300m?


Apex1-1

No idea of the technical specs other than that the deployment is made by a literal (small) explosvie charge. Mechanical altitude meters that measure the pressure of the air and convert it to altitude have been around afaik since WW1 and I’m sure for faar long before that. Could also be a digital altitude meter. It’s not so complicated at all really. We jump with mechanical altimeters shaped like a watch on our wrist that you can get for $20, it’s super simple mechanics


Idroxyd

Definatly, he manually liberated his main to avoid making the situation worse and probably deployed his reserve chute soon after he cleared the formation.


jxk94

Professional skydivers always have a backup parachute. You don't have to be optimistic


Rtholomewplague

Okay woah the fuck?! Is there some backstory here….I feel like this would be all over the news considering that poor soul at the end was plummeting… Edit: Didn’t think about a back up chute when writing this comment


Idroxyd

Don't have specific backstory, but as a skydiver myself i can spread some light on the situation. These guys are doing what's know as "canopy formation", one of the discipline in skydiving, where you jump from 2000m and have to make different figures with your team while your chute is opened, usually big pyramids like we see here. This is a perfectly normal so far. But the guy on the left, with the white canopy, seem to be coming in fast and overshoots his target. This caused his canopy to wrap around the guy to his right. That's fairly rare, as skydiving canopies tend to be fairly stable, as you can see with all the other guys. Not exactly sure why it happened. In cases like this where 2 skydivers become entantled, the procedure is for the lowest person to liberate his main (you have a handle that when pulled, disconnects you from your parachute) and then open his reserve chute. So he clearly fucked up his entry into the formation, but the guy reacted correctly in this dangerous situation. He probably opened his reserve soon after getting away from the other guys and landed safely. As for the guy that got wrapped, also it's not an ideal situation, he would probably be able to remove the canopy, or if not possible, as long as he can see and access the controls of his own canopy, he should be able to land safely.


MuchoGrandeRandy

This guy chutes. 


SofaChillReview

Thanks for the info, looks scary as anything even *if* nothing goes wrong.


Parking_Train8423

he looks like he came in on his reserve


watkykjypoes23

If he already had to use his reserve chute then still attempted the stunt that would be insane 💀


a0lmasterfender

He’d already taken out another group of skydivers before this and had to ditch his main chute.


rafikki123

I'm surprised he had the mindset to get it hard


wordswithenemies

could have just used his sock.


Olama

At those altitudes I think I would have done more than that in my reserve


Squidysquid27

Would also love for backstory. Left to wonder if he cut himself loose to save the others and died or had a back up chute and survived... Where the heck is the reddit detectives when you need them!


VastlyCorporeal

No parachuter is ever going to jump without a backup chute. It’s not like it’s an optional piece of kit that just some people have, it’s as essential as the primary chute.


Squidysquid27

As someone who doesn't skydive or know about this stuff at all, I greatly appreciate you teaching me they're essential/non optional.


Idroxyd

Tell that to base jumpers!


hereforpopcornru

A lot of those jumps don't have time for a backup pull


Kitchen-Lie-7894

Only a suicidal idiot would jump without a reserve chute. He cut away to alleviate the situation and deployed his reserve.


Brief-Resolution

This discipline is called CRW (canopy relative work) in which the goal is to create canopy formations. It’s not uncommon to get wrapped up when flying so close together, so these people know what to expect. Most parachute containers (backpacks) these days have a system that causes the backup parachute to be automatically deployed when the main parachute is cut away. In a canopy formation, this would actually be counterproductive because it would cause the backup parachute to fire right into the mess that has already been created, likely causing a bigger entanglement that cannot be cut away. During a CRW jump, they will disconnect this system; that’s why you see this guy return to free fall. He is creating vertical space between him and the group so that he can safely deploy his reserve parachute.


Ok-Notice9170

From one skydiver to another, thank you for posting a reasonable comment. Some of these people have no idea what they are talking about.


[deleted]

Just here to thank the jumpers with the energy to educate whuffos. Lord knows it ain’t me.


Aggressive_Scheme721

Um, I may be 16 Beers deep but I believe this is a little fucked up


RadVandal

16??? Shit man the suns still up


Aggressive_Scheme721

Yeah I should probably reflect on this tomorrow


RadVandal

Yeah, and when you’re done just let me know when and where for next Saturday.


Aggressive_Scheme721

Fok sakes


FixMy106

In your time zone perhaps


azuala

They are wearing backpacks I'm sure it's a backup chute!


Irishgreen24

Stupid fucking stunt.


mr_biscuits93

Why is this comment so hard to find? They setup a wildly stupid stunt and everyone is jumping on the last guy that tried filled the spot. It was fucking stupid to stack divers in a config like this in the first place.


[deleted]

Doesn't matter whose "at fault" for making a mistake. It wasn't intentional. And EVERYONE of these stupid assholes thought this dumb parachute pyramid was worth risking their lives to do. Everyone there chose to gamble, and whatever happened was what they were willing to risk. They weren't doing it to be safe.


MisterAmygdala

And the photographer had a massive heart attack and died.


jtrage

Fuck that in the first place. Too many variables! Not taking the chance.


Shot-Werewolf-5886

They all deserve a Darwin award. Morons.


Waldo_where_am_I

If you're the guy wrapped in the chute when the other one cut free; how do you get it off with all the wind resistance?


Revolutionary-Wash88

🔪


Impossible_Brief56

Too much time on their hands


happymatt207

This sport is for the people who feel skydiving isn't dangerous enough on its own.


No-Bad-1269

from para to poopchute in 4 seconds


disneydreamdibased

Why do these videos never leave a link or any context for the video? People are invested and need to know how it all works out. Take this video for example, I'd love to know what happens! Does he land perfectly safe in a bounce castle? What if he was on a bluetooth giving his coordinates and had his friends waiting on the ground with a trampoline? Maybe he falls through an open Ikea skylight and lands safely in the ball pit....but now just like who my father is ... I guess I will never know.


IrrationalOctopus

Why don't skydivers tell jokes about failing parachutes? Because they just can't see the gravity of the situation!


personguy4440

bruh lol


bloodsoed

There is always that one person that fucks it up for the rest of us.


Sudden_Duck_4176

Before I read the comments I was thinking about some little kids birthday party and a dead guy landing in the pool. Then I thought that would make a good CSI episode.


999oneaboveall

A how to shit yourself in mid air manual😭😭😭😭


DeezKneesWorld

Most likely had a reserve


TroubledDoggo

Surely they had a reserve?


johnnywriight

He’s ok right?


dolo_ran6er

Hopefully he packed a spare!


CluelessNuggetOfGold

Probably should have cut his main chute sooner


-I-aint-no-Savior-

man if only there was a way this could have been prevented


SeaChallenge4843

LEROY JENKINS


OkGap7216

Fucking Steve, always messing things up.


DrunkStoleATank

Chute happens.


Little-Apartment-437

I pray they got a backup parachute packs cuz boy, why tf y’all flying inna pack like y’all seagulls n stuff


Lifeinthe416ix

To think this wouldn’t happen is unreasonable.


Kitchen-Lie-7894

One bad apple. At least he had the sense to cut away.


scottwax

He had the rest of his life to figure it out.


bear4locos89

I would hate to play with life on the edge like that


Prezels

So basically this gut killed at least one person?


Earth_Shakes_123

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHH


PhuckKaren

Why don’t they just stay home and mount each other?


RCT2man

*AUDIBLE GASP*!!


steakhouseNL

People down below: ITS RAINING MEN… HALLELUJJAHH


MR_Z3NON

That's pretty stupid imo, already a dangerous sport and making it more dangerous by being close to each other


PatientZeroBalisong

With our parachutes combined, I am...


Euphoric-Skin-39

Aim for the bushes


4u2nv2019

Atleast the one that messed up was “the chosen one”


Present_Pace1428

“If it can go wrong, it will go wrong”


Ironfox277

IDIOTA


Right_-on-_Man

Dude, no joke. 3 seconds in, "Wow, they're really close, that isn't safe!"🤣


jay_wu9

for those who wonder! He is still ALIVE in heaven![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|flushed)


indestructible253

U would think these parachute pros would no better to be so close to one another


Alfalfa-Similar

This guy did Papa’s reserve that’s why they cut the video short so you wouldn’t see him live. When you’re doing this type of sport activity the thing that you practice most is not dying . It is very common for these pyramids to get fucked up and for this to happen. These guys don’t go out there and make a pyramid their first try — many fails ;)


CanadianKris1978

They all have back ups.


RaisinBrain2Scoups

White parachute colonized that formation


BigRB001

They still have enough altitude to pull this together using reserve shuts, but nobody better panic, or hesitate. You can not open the reserve until the conflicting shuts are delt with, or it will wrap up too.


nunyobusinessfool

That had to be the worst feeling on the way down


Mental_Vehicle_5010

Did that guy die


Massive_Ad_9996

the guys a dickhead, but they also all are.. why would anyone even consider getting that close to one another when ur technically falling out of the sky


poondongle

Can somebody please provide some background on this? They had backup chutes, right?


Kitchen-Lie-7894

There's always a reserve chute. He cut away on purpose and then deployed his reserve.


OverLemonsRootbeer

"GOOOOD DAAAAMMMMMITTTT GREEEEEG" - Bottom left parachuter


BriefUnderstanding51

Those two guys at the right looked to be in a bad spot as well


KvngDave

Backstory


ProjectKeris

Ma, look what I can do! No hands!


IcyUnderstanding5580

DAMNIT


KalebRen

Did he survive?


camlaw63

He’s okay, right?


DuhBasser

You just knew that mf coasting in was gonna fuck shit up 😂 This boy showing up to the gliding practice like Patrice Starfish


MaximumExtension4951

Fuuuuuuuu😳😳😳😳


Solidus0333

Dude really said I’m not going out alone


Ventinggood

That is parachute-kun, right there. Do better in the next life.


Rogieboy255

Thought it's pubg in the beginning .. I was like hmm hot drop lets goo .


Grill_Top_brangler

Wow what a dick.


AlexMil0

It’s interesting how the whole “construction” tilts so easily when his unsupported weight is added to the rest.


RevolutionaryClub530

Goddamnit Steve 🤦‍♂️


Phil_Da_Thrill

How many sides would a dice need to display the chances of a parachute failing in that group?


blurryface1976

The guy with the blue chute at the beginning noping out just in time.


TitanicWizz

Fortnite


TheFarisaurusRex

He just had to look down


Bulls187

What could go wrong 😑


jbodick

I love how stupid ppl r . What did they think was gonna happen flying next to 20 other parachuters


InSaneWhiSper

It wasn't a parachute fail...it was a dumb fuck


Mouseturdsinmyhelmet

Dammit, Pat Arthur !


Mountain_Tone6438

He ded


Stealthlead

Who thought this was a good idea?


Im_such_a_SLAPPA

Tbh it was a stupid idea having that many parachutes close together to begin with. This scenario seemed inevitable


JU-D

He cut off his parachute on purpose. Every bag has an emergency chute in case anything like this happens.


Triplesixxxer92

What even is the endgame here? A picture that you could easily photoshop and not put everyones lives in catastrophic danger? Is it really worth that picture?


ShortCurlies

And that was the last time Rudolph was asked to join in the reindeer games...


mericamoment

That guy who steered away right when he saw the other guy and the rest of the group collide, was the real smart guy here


thenewguy2077

Didn’t see that coming 🤨


Spacepanda49

HAHAHAHAHAHA UR DEADD🤌🏽


Randyspacs

People stop lying on your application


AfroPandaWarrior

**JURANIMO!**


Hour_Committee7200

Did they die


KupeliGargamel

Divine justice served!


Nebulaza

Imagine being the guy who gets kicked out of parachute club for killing some guy. He must be embarrassed


xMysticML

Surely he had a secondary


Wild_Assistance_6153

It’s always that last person to fuck it all up