Yes! Skydiving is a safe activity.



Do you ever fantasize about what it would be like to fly as a child? When you need to make a turn or fly down a steep dive, you sprint through the yard with your arms extended like an airplane, simulating strange engine noises.


You know what I mean; practically every youngster has that experience, but is skydiving really a rollercoaster or amusement ride if you bother doing your research on it?


Let's go right to the point and talk about the facts regarding skydiving safely, shall we?


Modern skydiving began with Andre Jacque garner's experiments on October 22, 1797, and has since evolved into a high-tech sport in a short period of time. However, if you've never seen skydiving before, you may be picturing people drifting in the breeze under a round parachute and landing like sacks of potatoes.





A parachute is used by skydivers to slow down motions, and as long as the parachute accomplishes what it's supposed to do, you don't have to worry about dying from the fall.


  • While bracing for impact, 85 percent of skydivers suffered ankle and wrist injuries. Here's the breakdown.


  • Injuries to the pelvis and thighs 2 percentage points


  • hands knee calf's knees damage to the arms, back, and spine 5% of total


  • 18% of the wrist


  • The ankle is the most common injury, accounting for 54 percent of all cases.


According to the United States Parachute Association, there were only twenty-four fatal skydiving accidents in 2014 out of 3.2 million dives, or about naught seventy-five fatalities per 1,000 jumps, which is the lowest in sports history, and it's getting safer with advanced technology like the automatic activation device (AAD), tandem skydiving (jumping while attached to another person), and skydiving is even getting safer with advanced technology like the automatic activation device (AAD).





So let's put all this into perspective, let's say you drive your car ten thousand miles per year in any given year, your chances of dying in a car crash are one in 6,000, and if you make only one dive in a year your chances of dying from skydiving are only one in a hundred thousand on average, which is obviously going to be more if you jump out of a plane on a regular basis, so from a statistical standpoint we're taking a bigger risk driving our cars every day than somebody who occasionally jumps out of an airplane.


Still, have reasons why you shouldn't engage in skydiving? let us know in the comment section below and if you know anyone that skydives or has an interest in skydiving at all, share this article with them.