Guy jump off bridge for camera, drowns

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[–]Krehlmar 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's tragic that none of them have any idea how drowning people look

Basically he seems to have lost conscience from the impact, which above 40+meters can be like concrete unless you angle your body. He barely regains miniscule background automatic behaviour like flailing pathetically whilst the brain is shutting off.

If you want a more depressing look of this just look up those africans who drown outside a tunisian fishing-boat. Same helpless pathetic and meek flailing beneath the water. It's honestly tragic because it's millions of years of evolution trying to keep us alive when we've basically sent ourselves to our death.

[–]arealaccount 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There's also a video of 3 indian(?) guys on the shallow end of a lake, taking a break. They put up a camera to film themselves, I think they were on a trip or something.

It's unreal to watch how quickly they're gone.

[–]Krehlmar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I've seen most.

The worst is probably the Africans who think a Tunisian fishing-boat is Italian. Worth watching due to how many drown.

[–]thenotoriousdougie 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The way he landed he probably broke both legs on impact and knocked the wind out of himself real good. It didn't help that nobody did a thing except stand there filming while he drowned. There's a reason jumping off bridges is a really popular way to commit suicide, too bad he didn't know that

[–]ImYourChrist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Likely, but I think he lost consciousness from the whiplash immediately, his upper torso was in 30-40 degree angle.

[–]die996 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Never jump from heights into very calm water, specially if you don't know how to break it properly with your feet (you really need to enter like a needle)

[–]lost_in_cairo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

in navy boot camp they told us to cross our legs, cross our arms (hands on shoulders), tuck your chin and go in feet first.

[–]die996 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's not a bad position at all. The most important thing is to break the water with your feet and make yourself as narrow and uniform as possible so no part of you sticks out and receives a heavy impact.

The "tuck your chin" is probably because a whole lot of dumbasses tend to look up, which would cause them to break a bit of the water with the back of their heads (probably not a very heavy impact but it's avoidable). If you can keep your head in a neutral position (looking flat ahead), that should also be no problem.