What are the odds of dying while skydiving?
Skydiving is much safer than people think. During the 2006 there were 21 members of the United States Parachute Association that died. One of them was a good friend of mine… However, there are about 31,000 members of the USPA and about 2.2 million jumps are made during the year. if you think about that there were only 21 jumps out of 2.2 million that resulted in a death. you can get more info on this at http://uspa.org/about/page2/relative_saf… more about world wide accidents are found on www.dropzone.com There are many different safety things to help make skydiving safer. We jump with two parachutes. The FAA says that for any intentional parachute jump you must go with one more parachute than you plan on using. I only plan on using my main, but I have a reserve incase I need it, and I have, once. (That was fun! I opened up and my main parachute was damaged by a very hard opening so I cut it away and deploye
