It's impossible to lose

[email protected]

It's happened more often than you'd think. Usually there is something that makes it happen, like falling through tree branches or into something like a snow bank, but it happens enough that it pops up in trivia from time to time.

[email protected]

Course ya did. TIs aren't nonces, at work anyway. And the guys they train are only sometimes nonces. And some of them like big tips ^.^

[email protected]

The amount of scathing that a canopy company gets when a skydiver hits hard is particularly dependent on their quality. Most of us who skydive read the death/injury reports regularly, and when the equipment was at fault it (the report) gets nasty. Here's a link if anyone is curious to read through some of them. The majority are going to be the fault of the loon jumping out of a plane, but every now and then you'll see an equipment failure. Most of those, even, are due to poor maintenance and upkeep, not manufacturer sleaziness.

[email protected]

Crazy as fuck. Was over the beach in socal

[email protected]

I'm in the market for a golden one, I've heard they are really good.

[email protected]

I heard they're unethical. Made with slave labour or something.

[email protected]

Depends on the size. A 65 year old who's been working hard their whole life might get a small golden parachute and those ones are less unethical. CEOs and world leaders get the enormous golden chutes and there is no way to make one of those without child labour, slave labour, and other forms of exploitation.

I Cast Fist

Same applies to coffin companies. Not a single user came back to complain.

[email protected]

Parachutes are not scientificaly proven to reduce skydiving deaths. There's never been a double blind study done.

[email protected]

Too bad it takes people literally falling out of the sky and dying in order to amass the data to know its dangerous. Too bad it's impossible to prevent that through regulation, I'm told.