Terrifying footage shows skydiver battling to untangle his parachute in mid-air after TWO chutes malfunction – before he crash lands unhurt in a briar patch
- Boo Dacious, a skydiver with 15 years’ experience, said he landed ‘unscathed’
- The double chute fail happened on a jump in DeLand, Florida in November 2021
- In footage released this week on Instagram, the skydiver thanked his rescuers
- After his main chute tangled, he cut it away; then, the reserve chute failed too
This is the moment a skydiver suffered two parachute malfunctions, leaving him battling to untangle his chute in mid-air – before miraculously landing ‘unscathed’ in a briar patch.
The terrifying parachute double-fail happened in DeLand, Florida, with footage of the near-death encounter published on the skydiver’s Instagram this week.
Boo Dacious, who has been skydiving for 15 years, told his Facebook followers after the event – which occurred on November 22 last year – that he had completed 1100 skydives without a similar episode.
Boo Dacious published footage this week on Instagram of his double chute failure during a jump in DeLand, Florida in November 2021
He wrote of the incident: ‘I had a cutaway. In that cutaway anything that could go wrong went wrong and everything that I needed in my favor to walk away from it, went my way.
‘I am humbled and grateful to everyone that had to witness what many felt was a completely dire situation for anyone to get out of….I am walking proof to NEVER GIVE UP!!!’
The footage shows the skydiver struggling with his gear, becoming increasingly desperate as he fights against the growing G-force.
Miraculously, the skydiver – who said he had been jumping for 15 years without suffering a similar incident – landed ‘unscathed’ in a briar patch
By the time Boo Dacious had reached the ground, rescuers – alerted by his fellow skydivers – had already begun rushing to his landing point
As he gets closer and closer to the ground, he can be heard shouting desperately, his disorientation elevated by the way he starts oscillating faster and faster.
Boo Dacious explained that the ‘bridle’ and ‘pud’ of his chute had become knotted.
He described how he made a split-second decision to cut away what was trailing behind him, before deploying the reserve chute.
The reserve chute was then interfered with by the main chute, which he had only partially cut away.
Boo Dacious went on to describe how the ‘double malfunction reserve-main entanglement’ ended with him landing in a ‘tiny clearing beneath a pine tree, behind huge six foot tall swaths of briar patches’.
After cutting away his tangled main chute, Boo Dacious said the reserve chute malfunctioned too, leaving him desperately wrestling to straighten out the chute as he hurtled to earth
He said: ‘I was in such a state of shock that I had spiralled/oscillated down and landed on my own two feet.
‘I begin to hear the rescuers coming from all angles.’
According to Boo Dacious, the rescue team sustained more injuries fighting through the prickly briar to reach him than he had from the terrifying plummet to earth.
Boo Dacious finished his Facebook post, paying tribute to his rescuers: ‘I felt overwhelmed with love by everyone who was there.
‘It’s crazy to walk away unscathed.’
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