{"id":306051,"date":"2021-07-23T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/skydivers-headcam-video-captures-scary-mid-air-moment\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T23:05:57","slug":"skydivers-headcam-video-captures-scary-mid-air-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/skydivers-headcam-video-captures-scary-mid-air-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"#Skydiver\u2019s headcam video captures scary mid-air moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Skydiver\u2019s headcam video captures scary mid-air moment<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It was a lucky twist of fate that this skydiving couple managed to survive.<\/p>\n

A pair nearly fell to their deaths this month when their parachute lines became twisted mid-air \u2014 a horrifying moment captured for posterity on the pair\u2019s headcams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toms Vajeika, 30, and his unnamed girlfriend were skydiving above Fano, Italy on July 11 when, suddenly, he began spiraling towards the ground because their lines had entangled. Footage caught on the cameras each were wearing during their descent shows him entering what may well have been a death spiral towards the earth below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Vajeika, a marine engineer and experienced skydiver, was able to think on his feet and quickly untwist the lines before the snare became fatal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been skydiving since 2019 and have made around 250 jumps since,\u201d Vajeika \u2014 who hails from Riga, Latvia \u2014 told Caters. In his years of jumping, he\u2019d learned how to address exactly the situation in which he suddenly found himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trained and prepared for this kind of emergency, so the main thing I was thinking at the time was what the lowest altitude I can be, before I am forced to cut away from the main canopy and deploy the reserve,\u201d he explained of his quick thought process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The situation, however, was complicated by the fact that Vajeika and his girlfriend were skydiving along with a group of app<\/a>roximately 25 others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to sacrifice some altitude due to two other divers in close proximity to me, this forced me to open the main canopy at a high speed resulting in the lines twisting,\u201d he said. \u201cYou do not want to have to cut away and lose your main canopy because they are very expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In rapid time, he had the potentially lethal predicament back on course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy girlfriend was worried when she first saw me spinning, but once she realized I\u2019d got it under control, she was relieved and we both joke about it now,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair landed unharmed \u2014 and are undeterred from skydiving again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy that I landed safely and packed my parachute for the next jump,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Skydiver\u2019s headcam video captures scary mid-air moment” It was a lucky twist of fate that this skydiving couple managed to survive. A pair nearly fell to their deaths this month when their parachute lines became twisted mid-air \u2014 a horrifying moment captured for posterity on the pair\u2019s headcams.\u00a0 Toms Vajeika, 30, and his unnamed girlfriend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/parachute.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112498,94508,111289,1899],"class_list":["post-306051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-22-21","tag-parachuting","tag-skydiving","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}