I just think the article is humuorous in so many ways.
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What a skimmer!
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Paging @explorerJC. Para Reg. Say no more 
Anything more than about 10-15m is âsportyâ in my experience!
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The transition from the military is difficult but I want to show that we donât need to live in the past and we all can.âŚjump out of helicopters into the sea?
I mean I guess heâs made a clean break from using parachutes, not sure Iâd call that a successful transition to civilian life though.
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He has a layer of protective slime.
His body position (in that pic) moments after leaving the helicopter did not inspire confidence. All limbs crossed, and try and stay that way by the time you hit the water init; thatâs what we were taught.
When I was âdown southâ a member of an Infantry Battalion that will remain nameless was on a âsight seeingâ tour with some of his mates on a C-130. Apparently heâd been told that it was a âright laughâ and the act of a legend to jump out the side door whilst wearing a dispatcherâs harness. It took 4 or 5 of them to drag him back in, not before heâd been beaten to a pulp on the side of the fuselage though. Heâs lucky the Loadmaster didnât just tell the captain to descend over the sea, and heâd cut him free
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Ledge.
How can you âattemptâ a record like that, you either end up successful or dead surely.
I see he was briefly knocked unconscious, probably as his ankles connected with his head.
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Iâve done 60â and it scared the living daylights out of meâŚbut then iâve always been scared of heightsâŚ
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now that really is dumbâŚ
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