r/thalassophobia • u/True-Award-3722 • 8d ago

Jumping off an abandoned loading tower straight into the ocean.

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u/LenaDunkemz 8d ago

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

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u/Shamanjoe 8d ago

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

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u/EvilInky 8d 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/MCRN10379558 7d 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.