hello my friends and welcome back to another video here on lbq I'll be your
host Jared Bronstein and today we'll dive right into the question what if you
skydived into a hurricane before we answer that though make sure you hit
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comment section down below I'll be replying to some comments from a
previous video when we get to the bottom of this question a question and that
should only be answered hypothetically so let me make it clear
do not try to skydive into a hurricane now that I am not liable for anyone's
actions let's get into the video so hurricanes they're really just a very
bad thunderstorm with insanely extreme winds swirling in the same direction so
imagine almost like a tornado mixed with a really heavy thunderstorm only way
bigger and we know the kind of damage they caused Hurricane Katrina destroyed
an entire city while hurricane durian destroyed most of the Bahamas an entire
country they vary in regards to how destructive they are with categories
ranging it from one meaning it has winds anywhere between seventy four ninety
five miles per hour up to a category five which is a major hurricane
containing winds of 157 miles per hour and up but in regards to what would
happen if you skydived directly into a hurricane well the results don't change
much regardless of what category the storm is of course no one has claimed to
have sky dived into a hurricane and if anyone has tried while unfortunately I
don't think they would have lived to tell the tale and here's why
for starters hurricanes can reach heights between 40 and 50 thousand feet
in altitude now most skydivers on average jump
anywhere between altitudes of 10,000 to 13,500 feet in the air
skydiving above altitudes of 15,000 feet require the use of oxygen because we
can't breathe that high up in the air but before you even jump you need a
pilot willing to fly through the wall of the hurricane assuming you wanted to
skydive in the eye of the hurricane this would be a problem because skydiving
planes such as the Cessna 208 Caravan and the Pak P 750 extol would probably
have a tough time dealing with the harsh winds causing damage to the plane's
wings or possibly engine now somehow someway if you were able to get a pilot
who'd be willing to do this and the plane managed to break through without
any issues and you successfully jumped out of the plane
it wouldn't be smooth sailing and that's because as peaceful as the eye of the
hurricane is there's no guarantee that you would dive directly down in a
straight line the whole time he'd be surrounded by
hail rain and of course extremely heavy winds now this could lead to you being
sucked upward into higher altitudes because of the heavy winds something
that happened to Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin who had to eject from his
f8 crusader at 47,000 feet in the air his aircraft got stuck in a come alone
in this tower which is a very dense vertical cloud usually found in
thunderstorms after his Jets engine failed on him he decided to eject before
he started going into a complete nosedive thankfully he had an oxygen
mask which helped him survive the ordeal with that being said he wasn't properly
equipped with a pressure suit so when he was sucked to the top of the cloud we're
talking about 47,000 feet in the air he was surrounded by heavy winds lightning
hail rain and black clouds and of course his body was freaking out he had
swelling in his abdomen and bled from every hole imaginable we're talking his
nose ears eyes and mouth and really who else knows where else although he
survived to tell the tale he almost drowned because the water vapor was so
thick when he tried to breathe he almost choked his limbs were frostbitten and
even when he was coming to a clearing expecting to make a safe landing a gust
of wind took him right into a group of trees at the last second which caused
him to smash his head on one of the trunks and have his parachute get caught
up in the branches so hypothetically if you were to skydive in a hurricane not
only would you most likely have troubles going straight down as normally would be
the case but you could find yourself being sucked up so high due to the eye
of the hurricanes wall that carries heavy winds you'd have trouble breathing
among many many other issues we're talking in welts frostbite bleeding and
of course the chance of you being struck by lightning which would result in an
instant death now the eye of a hurricane is incredibly calm and peaceful but as
previously mentioned the odds of skydiving right down the middle and not
being moved any way toward or away from the Hurricanes eyewall would be
extremely difficult if not impossible especially with a parachute then there's
the landing you'd have a pretty hard time seeing the
ground below you and when you did if the eye isn't in a spot where you could land
safely say it's still making its way over the ocean and heading for land well
then you'd have to break through the Hurricanes eyewall all alone with just a
parachute this of course would not end well by any means so to wrap up let me
just say you probably shouldn't skydive and
hurricane aside from the difficulties that you would have finding someone
willing to fly you high enough to even get into the eye of the hurricane which
would most likely be the only possible way to not be thrown all over the place
actually skydiving straight down the I would also be impossible in the end
skydiving into a hurricane regardless if it was the eye the wall or the edge
would almost definitely end up with you dying or at least you know having very
severe injuries how you would die varies from drowning due to the vapors to
getting struck by lightning to not have enough oxygen to even having trouble
controlling your landing if you made it that far
it's safe to say doing this would be an incredibly bad idea so just don't do it
knowing that more but note let's reply to some comments from the video how can
we stop a hurricane just kind of felt it was fitting giving this video you know
anyway Russian vodka said as dr. Ichiro series Allah once stated the arrogance
of a man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around
circa 1945 to 2019 that's pretty much what I'm saying here like we think oh my
skydive down in the eye of the hurricane that I'll go write down no you have no
idea what's gonna happen there's heavy winds and hurricanes even though the eye
of the hurricane is very peaceful and calm who's to say you know while you're
skydiving down although you'd go down pretty quickly
the hurricane wouldn't move you know make the winds shift hurricanes are
constantly moving the winds are constantly moving who's to say that it
wouldn't move you in a different direction and then you'd be really
screwed FX yes said we need to build a wall around the hurricane and make it
pay for it I just include this one it was really
funny comment imagine someone trying to build a wall around a hurricane I'll
just leave you guys with that imagery little drummer boy said you can't stop
Mother Nature she will find a way to bounce back for revenge again kind of
going off that first comment that our apply it to yeah I mean you know we
think we're the most intelligence beans but we're not like we think we could
control mother nature but I mean not to say we think we can but I don't know
like how can we stop a hurricane you can it's a natural disaster the world's
gonna do what its gonna do regardless of how we feel about it so you know there's
only so much we can do and a great quote that I live by guys it says a secret to
happiness is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it
should be so just think about that I guess
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