Society Hero dad jumps 4 stories off cruise ship to save his daughter

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Uncle Tom Doug

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If you land correctly anyway
That's very true. When I was in 8th grade, one of my friends tried to do a flip off of a 35ish foot bridge and landed on his side. The pop sounded like a gun shot. He was able to surface and swim to shore while we were all laughing hysterically, but it left a nice big bruise. I'm honestly surprised he didn't crack a rib as loud as it was. We jumped off of quarry walls and cliffs that were 50-70 feet when I was in high school.

There used to be a tree at the top of these bluffs that you could climb up to add another 15-20 feet to the drop. When I was a senior in high school, one of my female friends ran over and parked on my right foot and ankle, fucking up the tendons in it. The doctor put me in a lace-up brace to help stabilize it. A bunch of us went up to these bluffs and were partying. I had taken some hydrocodone or some other opiate my doctor had prescribed and drank a few beers and decided it would be a good idea to jump. I should have gone in head first due to my ankle injury, but didn't. The pain from hitting the water feet first sobered me up immediately.


One of the quarries we frequented had a spot that was allegedly almost 100 feet. I'm not sure if it was actually that high, but you'd damn near get an enema when you hit the water if you didn't clench your butt cheeks. It was a pain in the ass to get to, so it wasn't one we frequented.
 

MountainMedic

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Sep 28, 2017
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Yeah, if you don't know how to jump into water and break surface tension first it minus well be concrete.
It'll fuck you up even at 10 feet lol.

Fortunately, little kids are natural lawn darts and made out of rubber
 

Wanderluster

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Anyone remember this story



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycQVf9Z861Y
Wife and I were actually on that ship on the sailing following that incident. First couple days of the cruise, the area was still taped off.
 

Wanderluster

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Fucking crazy they would still have a crime scene taped off and go on another cruise.
I guess it's just like anywhere that a crime happens. Life really doesnt stop, everything just keeps moving. I totally disconnect from everything while on vacation. So took me a few days to find out what happened.
 

Jesus X

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According to darwinism they both should have died falling 40 feet then drowned while unconscious.
 

Bungee up

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If you land correctly anyway
40 foot is nothing really.
I've seen some people get intimidated by it but it's not a big deal.
I'd jump off the second spreader of a 65 foot yaught and it was almost boring.
So one time I decided to try a back flip , which I'm not good at that spinning shit.
I over rotated and landed on the side of my head. It blew out my eardrum.
It's probably the dizzyist I've ever felt in my life. Other than that I was fine though. It only took a week or so for my eardrum to heal.
It's not the worst possible landing but it was pretty close after a back flop / belly flop.
 

Bungee up

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When I read the thread title my dyslexia must've kicked in . I read it as " father jumps 4 stories to rescue daughter ".
I thought. As a father that takes some ball's. I'm not sure I'd jump 4 stories to save my kid .
Then the cruise ship part sank in.