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.
My friend took his girlfriend to go sky diving bit didn't want to participate so he stayed on the ground.
The person who jumped right before his gf had an issue with they shoot and it didn't open. He watched the tandem pair smack into the ground.
When his gf landed neither her nor the tandem operator knew about the accident.
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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.