A free falling human body quickly reaches a max speed of about 120 mph.
4,000 feet of free fall?
Maybe 25 seconds until permanent lights out?
Any thoughts about final thoughts?
“A free falling human body quickly reaches a max speed of about 120 mph.”
World record is 318 mph.
I read a story Kevin Hines, a suicidal man who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and lived. In 2018, Hines told his story to ABC News, recalling the feeling he had the moment that he jumped.
“Instant regret, powerful, overwhelming,” he remembers feeling. “As I fell, all I wanted to do was reach back to the rail, but it was gone. The thoughts in those four seconds, it was ‘What have I just done? I don't want to die.'”
Luckily for Hines, he turned around in mid-air and hit the water in a seated position. While he shattered three vertebrae in the fall, he was still alive. While he soon surfaced, it's no surprise that given his injuries, it was hard to stay afloat. That's when something incredible happened.
“Something began circling beneath me, and I mean something very large, very slimy, and very alive,” Hines recalls. “And I'm freaking out, and I'm thinking ‘You've got to be kidding me, I didn't die jumping off that stupid bridge, and a shark is going to eat me?.' I realized I'm not trying to stay afloat. I'm now lying on my back, being kept buoyant by this thing.”
(It was a sea lion that) kept Hines afloat until he was rescued by the Coast Guard.
“Any thoughts about final thoughts?”
Prayers to Jesus. Nothing else matters at that point.
The last thing to go through his mind was his ass.