A skydiver suffered a seizure and lost consciousness during a death-defying leap – heart-stopping video captured the moment his instructor swooped in and rescued him.
Christopher Jones, who suffers from Epilepsy, jumped from the plane at 12,000 feet over Western Australia and began convulsing at about 9,000 feet while trying a left-hand turn during his Accelerated Free Fall training.
"I then spend the next 30 seconds in free fall unconscious," he wrote in a description accompanying a two-minute YouTube video posted Sunday that had already garnered more than 3.7 million views by mid-morning Monday.
"Thankfully my jumpmaster manages to pull my ripcord at around 4000ft. I become conscious at 3000 ft and land safely back to the ground," the 22-year-old Perth man wrote about November's "near-death experience."
Skydiver Christopher Jones suffers a seizure midair during his jump over Western Australia.Photo: YouTube
The footage, shot with a helmet-mounted camera, captured the quick-thinking jumpmaster going after Jones during freefall.
"Halfway through the skydive, he had a seizure and rolled onto his back," said Robin O'Neill, WA Skydiving Academy business manager and chief instructor, abc.net.au reported.
Instructor Sheldon McFarlane flew over to Jones, grabbed him briefly and pulled his rip cord, O'Neill said.
"The guy came to consciousness under the canopy well before he landed," O'Neill said. "He landed uneventfully. It was a controlled landing in the Pinjarra drop zone."
The jump school's questionnaire asks students if they suffer from any ailments and conditions such as epilepsy, O'Neill said.
"(Christopher's) treating specialist wrote a letter specifically saying he was fit for skydiving," O'Neill said. Obviously he wasn't. That was the end of his skydiving career."
Jones said he could not become a pilot because of his epilepsy – but he thought his condition had improved enough to pursue skydiving.
"I'd been seizure-free for four years," he said. "I've always wanted to have the feeling of flight, so I just thought, considering I can't fly a plane due to my condition, I thought I'd give it a go."
Instructor Sheldon McFarlane rescues skydiver Jones midair.Photo: YouTUube
Jones noted that an automatic activation device would have deployed his chute if McFarlane hadn't managed to reach him.
The instructor said he wasn't worried Jones would hit the ground without the chute deploying, "but given the circumstances and where we were I thought it would be better to get him under parachute earlier than later.
"I managed to catch him on my second attempt and deploy his parachute," he added.
Epilepsy Association of Western Australia head Suresh Rajan said stressful situations can trigger seizures.
"Simple advice would be that if someone is a person who has epilepsy, the last place you'd want to be is somewhere like skydiving, where you'd be placing yourself in some jeopardy if you were to have a seizure while doing the dive," he said.
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