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Skydiver Has A Seizure During Free-fall
What starts as a normal and exciting day of adventure and fun, turned into a near death experience for an unsuspecting sky diving student. Free falling at 9,000 feet is a terrible place to have a seizure. (flightclub.jalopnik.com) More...
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That sounds HORRIFYING...glad the guy was rescued by his fellow skydiver-as a guy who has first hand experience of seizures, not me, but my best friend who was Epileptic, watching him have seizures was really scary.
I'm thinking being at altitude the lower barometric pressure could have triggered seizure. I heard on news it had been four years since his last seizure. Not a doctor but could be possible?
Or maybe the sudden barometric change with the freefall?
It's scary but not THAT big a deal. Parachute rigs are designed with AAD's or "Automatic Activation Devices". Using a barometer the parachute will deploy at a set altitude. If the instructor didn't pull the chute it would've deployed making his chances of survival much greater.
Wow. Did anyone notice he nearly came out of his rig? You can see one shoulder out while the chute was deploying between his legs. A friend of mine broke his collar bone while deploying the chute while head down.
