Can falling in a deep water body from a very high spot without a parachute kill you?

Question

For example a skydiver falling in the pacfic ocean without parachute hits the ocean. Will he survive?

Answer 1

yes, it can be deadly. Because of the hydrogen bonds in water, there is a thin film of tension covering the surface of water. This is the same tension that makes drops of water spherical, jets cylindrical, and allows water to climb up the wall of a container. Your body absorbs the shock as it pierces through the surface.

Two things greatly contribute to the force you receive from this film of tension when hitting the water. The first is the amount of your body that makes contact with the water when penetrating the surface. Falling from a lower distance, it is going to hurt alot more if you were to do a back or belly flop than it would have if you were to dive or jump feet first. The other component is the speed you are going on impact. Gravity acts as an accelerator of your falling speed. The longer you fall, the longer gravity is accelerating your body. Meaning, you will continue to go faster and faster until you hit your terminal velocity(which is very fast).

Although you are continuing to fall when you go through the water, the change in your momentum from hitting the surface is too great for a human body to handle. your best hope if you are ever in such a situation would be to point your toes down and have them take the initial blow. You will most likely still break your legs, but this technique will lower the force your body takes as well as helping to protect your vital organs

Answer 2

Yes, it's almost invariably fatal. We divers compete at a height of 10 meters or only about 30 feet high. There is a limit to how high one can jump from and survive, regardless of water depth. For example, the Golden Gate Bridge is 220 feet (66 m) high and overlooks water deep enough to not hit the bottom, but the result is (almost) certain death. Although 66 m is a "lethal dose", children often jump from 30 m (approximately 50% lethal dose) for recreation. This can be quite dangerous (e.g. if landing badly, or hitting a branch or dead fish or other object floating on the surface). The impact can also knock him unconscious, and, in absence of lifeguards (i.e. bridge jumping or cliff jumping), can cause drowning, even if from less than the lethal height. There have been documented accounts of people walking away from dives as high as 54 m, as well as the occasional Golden Gate Bridge survivor. If you were to jump off the golden gate bridge, yould hit the water doing 80 miles per hour. What actually kills you is the sudden decellaration, your bodies organs cant hold together and are smashed to jelly. Like swatting a fly actually.

Answer 3

Since when do sky divers jump from "15 to 20 feet"? They jump from roughly 5,000 feet! You are retarded. Keep your coast guard video knowledge to yourself.

No matter the water depth, Mr. Skydiver would be very dead.

"For example, the terminal velocity of a skydiver in a normal free-fall position with a closed parachute is about 195 km/h (120 Mph). It would take about 5.5 seconds to reach that speed. This speed increases to about 320 km/h (200 Mph) if the skydiver pulls in his limbs—see also freeflying." - Wikipedia

That's more than double the Golden Gate Bridge Jumper, so if that's a lethal dose, this is double lethal.

By the way. 15 to 20 feet girl is AN IDIOT!

Answer 4

Might, might not. How high was the skydiver? If it's from 15 to 20 feet, he won't die. The doctors will just have to put him together in the emergency room or at least fix several broken bones. From higher up, he'll probably die. Coast guards can survive a 15 to 20 foot fall because of the padding, but still hurts.

Why do you ask?

Answer 5

at around 50 meters (about 160 feet), diving into water is essential identical to diving onto cement. the 2 impacts you're body undergoes will in all likely hood kill you. first, you're body will smash into the surface of the water, breaking bone and tearing skin. the second impact occurs when your rapidly moving organs slam into the decelerated rest of your bodies, resulting in massive blood loss and organ failure. so no, undermost circumstances the human body cannot withstand such trauma. that having been said, a number of mitigating factors do also play an effect. studies have shown that hitting the water at a slight angle off from perfectly vertical helps survival. also, white water is up to 3 times more pressure absorbent than still water, which could also raise your chances of survival.

Answer 6

yeah, you're a gonner. Ever see someone fire a gun into the water. stops that bullet like there's no tommorow (movies are full of poo).

By the way, a 10 meter high dive is over 30 feet high. People can dive from about 100 feet up. Cliff divers do it all the time.

Answer 7

yes. it all has to do with physics but to make it simple, the impact of the air pushing you onto the water will kill you. and if it won't, then you'll probably drown anyways.

Answer 8

i would say most likely yes because even if its deep, its still going to be a very hard impact because your falling from a very high point at at very fast speed. if not die, be severly injured!

Answer 9

He will die. He'll hit the water like it is concrete. Splat.