skydiving is not a sport for the faint
of heart
even though statistically it’s much
safer than driving a car fatal accidents
do occur every year
senior daredevil Laverne Everett has no
idea she’s in danger of becoming one of
them for her 80th birthday Laverne is
fulfilling her lifelong dream of doing a
tandem jump and you’re taking the plunge
to at 13,000 feet the pair barrel roll
out of the plane as the tandem
instructor deploys a small pilot chute
called a drogue it looks like a
picture-perfect jump but when the
cameraman moves in it’s a scene of
unimaginable terror Laverne is hanging
half out of her harness two miles above
the ground her upper body straps have
slipped down around her shoulders and
her shirt has flown up around her eyes
she’s flying blind
and the only things keeping her from
plummeting to her death are her knees
wrapped loosely around the straps and
her partner’s shaky grip he’s got his
hands full put yourself and laverne’s
harness it’s up to you to save yourself
what would you do hey get to your
partner’s ripcord and pull the main
chute be spread your arms like an eagle
to create wind resistance or C grab your
shins and hang on for a wild ride
here’s what you should consider you’re
in a freefall thousands of feet above
the earth and slipping out of your
harness your tandem instructor has just
deployed the drogue chute slowing your
descent from a hundred and seventy miles
per hour to about 120 but that still
means you’re falling at a rate of a
hundred and seventy feet per second
that’s nearly the length of a 20-story
building in the time it takes to sneeze
at this rate you’ll eat the ground in
less than a minute
it’s flight-or-fight make your choice
Hey
or C choose wisely
so what would you do
of heart
even though statistically it’s much
safer than driving a car fatal accidents
do occur every year
senior daredevil Laverne Everett has no
idea she’s in danger of becoming one of
them for her 80th birthday Laverne is
fulfilling her lifelong dream of doing a
tandem jump and you’re taking the plunge
to at 13,000 feet the pair barrel roll
out of the plane as the tandem
instructor deploys a small pilot chute
called a drogue it looks like a
picture-perfect jump but when the
cameraman moves in it’s a scene of
unimaginable terror Laverne is hanging
half out of her harness two miles above
the ground her upper body straps have
slipped down around her shoulders and
her shirt has flown up around her eyes
she’s flying blind
and the only things keeping her from
plummeting to her death are her knees
wrapped loosely around the straps and
her partner’s shaky grip he’s got his
hands full put yourself and laverne’s
harness it’s up to you to save yourself
what would you do hey get to your
partner’s ripcord and pull the main
chute be spread your arms like an eagle
to create wind resistance or C grab your
shins and hang on for a wild ride
here’s what you should consider you’re
in a freefall thousands of feet above
the earth and slipping out of your
harness your tandem instructor has just
deployed the drogue chute slowing your
descent from a hundred and seventy miles
per hour to about 120 but that still
means you’re falling at a rate of a
hundred and seventy feet per second
that’s nearly the length of a 20-story
building in the time it takes to sneeze
at this rate you’ll eat the ground in
less than a minute
it’s flight-or-fight make your choice
Hey
or C choose wisely
so what would you do
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