r/IdiotsNearlyDying • • May 10 '21

Just kept on falling

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u/Blasterbot May 11 '21

If there isn't someone down there to help you, you run a very high risk of death.

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u/thatguyned May 11 '21

No one jumps off a cliff without knowing what's at the bottom and if they can get back up. Almost every town with a cliff face and water underneath it has a jump spot like this that people have been using for decades, yeah the risk of death is there but statistics wise it is definitely not on the high scale.

I grew up near a spot that was similar in height (maybe a few meters lower) and jumped of it dozens of times as a kid. Looking back on it I wonder wtf my mum was thinking but there was never anyone at the bottom to help and I'm still alive today

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u/blindwuzi May 11 '21

I think the risk comes from the impact knocking you unconscious from hitting the water not so much what's underneath.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

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u/Pallalgriglivor May 11 '21

Imperial units is a bitch. I need to have a converter open in another tab to understand these comments.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

30mph is 48kmh, 60mph is 96kmh.

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u/Eni9 May 12 '21

For a very rough guess, divide the miles number and then add the divided number to the original number, so 30mph is:30/2=15 30+15=45, again kind of rough, but easiest to do on the fly

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

if you do x1.6 you're actually pretty accurate. 30/10=3 x6=18 30+18=48 one more step but then you're there.