"Not good, the parachute can't be opened!" In 1999, an American skydiving enthusiast jumped from an altitude of 4,000 meters, but did not expect that the parachute malfunctioned in mid-air, and she was about to fall into a puddle of mud, who knows, she was saved by a group of highly poisonous red fire ants. What's going on here?
This skydiver is Joan Murray, a halfway skydiver, she has a privileged family life, and she is a bank executive, maybe because life is too smooth, she is eager to find some excitement.
It just so happened that one day I was hanging out with my husband and met a skydiving club, so someone invited them to play together.
Her husband was not very interested in this, so he refused, and Joan Murray wanted to break through herself, and just to find some fun in her ordinary life, so she made her first attempt with trepidation.
Under the guidance of the coach, she flew into the sky, and at this moment, she felt unprecedented freedom and happiness, which she could not feel in normal times, and she felt extremely excited and stimulated.
It was this attempt that made her fall in love with skydiving, and when she came home, she said to her husband: "I want to take time off to study skydiving." ”
The husband listened to his wife's decision, at first very unsupportive, the husband felt that the parachuting exercise was too dangerous, worried about his wife's safety, but in the end he was stubborn but could not resist his wife, but still agreed.
In the days that followed, Joan would go to practice skydiving whenever she rested, and as the number of skydives increased, Joan was no longer afraid, so her courage grew.
In September 1999, she went skydiving as usual, but due to her negligence, she thought that she was now comfortable with skydiving, patronized to chat with others, and jumped from 4,000 meters without carefully checking the parachute retraction problem.
And when she jumped to the height of the parachute, her parachute could not be released, and the friends who traveled with her also found out that something was wrong with her, and they all began to shout: "Joan, hurry up and open the parachute!" ”
In fact, she was also trying very hard to open the umbrella, but no matter how she fiddled with it, it was useless, she had no way, she could only close her eyes tightly, waiting for death to come, she fell down hard, and her friends began to mourn for her, feeling that she had no possibility of survival.
And at this time a miracle happened, when the rescuers successfully found Joan, she was still breathing, and the person was also awake, but she was crawling with red fire ants.
It turned out that when she fell, she was very lucky to fall on the nest of red fire ants, which are social animals, a nest usually contains nearly 250,000 animals, and the nest built is usually half the size of a person.
The soil of the red fire ant's nest is very soft, so letting Joan fall to the ground is buffered, coupled with the bite of the red fire ant on her body, the pain stimulates her nerves, and also keeps her awake and waiting for the arrival of the rescue team.
The red fire ant is originally an ant that is harmful to humans, but it saved Joan's life at a critical moment, which is really a blessing in misfortune.
Therefore, no matter what the situation, even professionals, when doing some high-risk sports, can not be careless, should be cautious.
Author: Zixi
Editor: Xinyue
Reference: "The Luckiest Seven Americans," Sina News
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