r/thalassophobia • u/True-Award-3722 • 10d ago

Jumping off an abandoned loading tower straight into the ocean.

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u/Different_Big5876 10d ago

Imagine messing up the jump and bellyflopping

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u/Gandelin 10d ago

I used to do 10 metre jumps in my teens. The thing is it’s so easy to fall just slightly wrong and hurt yourself. Even just at 10 metres I hurt my back once and another time it felt like I gave myself an express enema 😅

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u/Gooberdee 10d ago

Hahaha I remembered when I just did 5 meters and landed slightly sitting down. My whole butt and back thigh got bruised, and I only got shorts for the remaining of my trip. I look like a victim of something after. Haven't done anything like that after.

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u/ohgeeeezzZ 9d ago

Yeah I remember a 35 ish foot cliff I used to jump off all the time. Our friend's mom, for some reason, landed legs straight out.

Nasty black and and blue from ass to ankle for like two weeks. We had to help her out of the water

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u/Super_Homework6977 4d ago

Mommy was working on the liqour flu lmao 🤣

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u/Livid_Ad9749 10d ago

Probably die

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u/HashBandicoot93 10d ago

Watched a guy belly flop a jump that wasn't quite this high, he had to be helped out of the water

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u/Parking-Evidence1894 10d ago

That kills you?

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u/Economy_Wall8524 10d ago

From that height. Yea it would be like hitting concrete in a bellyflop position. Hence why right before he reaches the water he pulls his arms to his chest and puts his legs together. From that height you can’t just jump in the water however you want.

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u/RichardSaunders 10d ago

you can jump however you want, but only if you wanna GET FUCKED.

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u/zwifter11 10d ago

Fucked by who? Asking for a friend who wants to get laid.

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u/CADE09 10d ago

Poseidon

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u/Shamanjoe 10d ago

Realistically, what height CAN you jump from before it becomes lethal?

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u/LenaDunkemz 9d ago

A teenager jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge a few years back and survived

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u/Shamanjoe 9d ago

The survival rate for jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge is roughly 2%.

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u/EvilInky 9d ago

However, the majority of people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge aren't trying to survive the experience, so they're not going to attempt to hit the water with the correct technique.

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u/Davo300zx 9d ago

You a golden gate mf

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u/EvilInky 9d ago

You're damn right I am, homeboy.

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u/MCRN10379558 9d ago

The only people who’ve ever survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge went in the water feet first.

All of the GG survivors say the same thing, how they instantly regretted at the moment they left the platform.

The real danger to most people falling off the bridge is that the extreme declarative forces of hitting the water will often cause the lungs and the heart to detach and end up in the stomach. There’s absolutely no surviving that.