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or the guy who wing-suited into cardboard boxes https://youtu.be/DEP8juRSBRo?t=1m33s (headphone warning: loud)
Meta: why doesn't YouTube normalise volume. Why doesn't my OS/DE do it. (Mostly I'd want volume compression too.)
"Volume / Normalized: 100% / 53% (content loudness 5.5dB)"
This is insane. At least 5 redundancies failed: the Ram Air turbine, primary and secondary ejection sequences, the parachute, and his survival pack went missing. And yet Mr. Judkins survived maybe because he had spleen removed. Amazing.
By the way, this story happened in 1963.
>>> For the first time, I felt panic softening the edges of my determination. Given the situation, he's got some balls.
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I thought the common advice was to try to swim upwards while you were moving.
That's probably said just to keep you from panicking to give you something to attempt/think about while snow is crushing you. How can a mass of (often wet or frozen in blocks) snow tearing down trees and hurling rocks allow you to swim? Wishful thinking, survival is a question of luck. Maybe in very small avalanches. Many people get their skulls crushed, the forces there are immense... Best way is to avoid avalanche…
These serve the dual purpose of protecting your head and decreasing your density so you float to the top of the snow pack.
Yes, obviously there are big enough avalanches with huge slabs that will kill you in the ride, especially if you end up going through trees, but most skier involved avalanches are on more open terrain (thus why they slide) and are loose snow while moving.
Thats an awesome read!!!!! Will a passenger from a passenger airline survive if falling from 15,000 feet?
Unlikely. The only reason he was able to survive IMO is that his pilot chute deployed, slowing him down.
Here's a pic of the roof that saved one guy http://cdn2.fella.com/2016/06/20151717/Magee-11.jpg
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if your unlucky enough to be fully buried in an avalanche, it's not possible to dig, period. After everything stops moving, the loose snow refreezes almost instantly, locking you in place. Still, you're correct... Survivors often state they had no idea which direction was up.
This depends on the type of avalanche. I know,because I was caught in one. The one I was in was relatively minor and made up of a large part newly fallen snow. I had stopped for a break and managed to get my skis back on, but the thing overtook me hundred meters later. I had managed to get to higher ground relative to the rest of the slope, which is probably what saved me. I broke one leg and both my arms and got a p…
Very nice to hear you survived such a bad accident.
>>I am lucky to be alive. It is amazing though how clear you can think in life threatening situations.
David Allen talks about these situations in this talk. In the moments of crises, the brain brings about all its focus to the highest priority task at focus. Its almost like crises commands the best kind of productivity.
