An act of skill and courage
 

You may have seen this footage- a free falling sky diver has an epileptic episode. The skill and courage displayed by the jump master in this footage is exemplary. I hope he gets recognised for it.

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They both could have been killed easily, it's good to have experienced divers nearby.

Outstanding and heroic!

WOW.......impressed.

What I know about sky diving would fit on the end of a pin...but to dive and intercept an out of control jumper, without a collision, without an overshoot...just one chance I'd guess.

Mad aerial skillz, a cool head and enormous personal risk.

I know nothing about sky diving, so, do many epileptics sky dive, or is this his first seizure?

Just asking ...

I want to become a private pilot one day, but sky diving? No thanks!

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Agreed the jump master should be recognized for his bravery...

But the jumper had a safety device that would have deployed his main parachute at a preset altitude anyway. (1,500 feet,ish)

Still it took real skill and determination to reach him they way he did. They were both at terminal velocity. In that situation anything can happen.
Certainly not easy and I would not want to risk my life hoping a device would activate my main parachute in time.

On the news they said the man had been under a Dr. care for many years and had not had a seizure in a very long time and the doc cleared him for the jump. I am guessing that will be his last jump.

That instructor is indeed very brave and the type everyone wants in a jump group.

So, technically this would have been his last jump either way...

You always have to wonder if stuff like this was staged......

Someone may have needed to be a "hero"

I will never understand the urge to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.

That's like James Bond kinda stuff there!

I assumed the jumpmaster would have held on to him the rest of the way down. I'm not sure why he didn't.

Ain't no such animal.

That took some balls--if it wasn't staged (as pointed out above).

Dave Hartsock still takes the skydiving instructor hero award, though.

I tried it at the snohomish airport last year. The freefall was not all that exciting to me, but the feeling of jumping out of the plane was pretty wild, and steering the parachute was fun, too.
I never had much interest in skydiving, but a friend convinced me to try it, and I'm glad i did.

I can't understand the people that pay gobs of money per minute for the indoor skydiving... that looks pretty lame in comparison.

Ahdunno, anybody who jumps out of an airplane has a philosophy that's a little fuzzier than I'm cumftable with.

Jump master traveling at terminal velocity, say 120 mph.
Descent rate of jumper with deployed chute? Say, 24 feet per second. (~18 mph)
Speed differential? ~100 mph
UNLESS the jump master deployed his chute at exactly the same instant, he ain't holding on to the jumper.

My brother was RAAF.
He always said the only time he would ever be under a deployed canopy is if he was still strapped to his seat and his plane had disappeared around him.

Most exhilerating adrenaline rush you'll ever experience.

Well I certainly hope the guy who needed saving loses his license to drive a car.