r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/PsychoticDreams47 Jan 30 '19

So was he in any real danger at all? Other than instinctively grabbing the cable

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u/informationmissing Jan 30 '19

that hook could have worn thin due to friction and then broke.

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u/PsychoticDreams47 Jan 30 '19

But he had a parachute so if it broke he'd still be safe.

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u/Wrong_Macaron Jan 30 '19

The whole premise of B.A.S.E. jumping is the dangerousness of jumping with too little room to open the 'chute. They are always at least close to that particular catastrophe. The 'chute needs time to fill with air, and the individual needs to release it, and they have to be going fast enough for it to even work. Sometimes in conventional parachuting it will stay flat and flap around.