Yeah, it’s hard to get a sense of the scale from some of those videos. For an idea, it’s 127 feet vertical from the bridge to the water. Anyone who was on those masts when it hit very likely fell a very significant distance. It’s honestly enough of a height that I don’t know if it would’ve been better to land on the ship or in the water, but the outcome is guaranteed to be terrible, either way.
You would fall for around 2.8–3.0 seconds, so you would reach a velocity of around 60–65 mph, so you better angle yourself perfectly; feet first to avoid major injuries.
Compared to hitting the deck, which would would be like crashing a car at roughly 62 mph into a solid wall. So the waters definitely the better option.
It doesn’t look so bad until you notice that there were people all the way up the masts. It’s a really big ship so you don’t notice them at first.
Yeah, it’s hard to get a sense of the scale from some of those videos. For an idea, it’s 127 feet vertical from the bridge to the water. Anyone who was on those masts when it hit very likely fell a very significant distance. It’s honestly enough of a height that I don’t know if it would’ve been better to land on the ship or in the water, but the outcome is guaranteed to be terrible, either way.
You would fall for around 2.8–3.0 seconds, so you would reach a velocity of around 60–65 mph, so you better angle yourself perfectly; feet first to avoid major injuries. Compared to hitting the deck, which would would be like crashing a car at roughly 62 mph into a solid wall. So the waters definitely the better option.