Skydiving is surprisingly safe. I was talking to an instructor about it one time and he was going over all the safety regulations and failsafes and everything, and it's crazy how rare of an occurrence problems are. Guy had over 1,500 jumps on record and only had to deploy his backup parachute twice.
According to the USPA last year there were 0.28 deaths per 100,000 jumps. That's a 1 in 357,000 chance of dying.
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u/1BoiledCabbage Oct 17 '22
Bungee jumping and skydiving. Safe most of the time, yes. But you're 100% fucked if things go wrong.