A former British parachutist was hospitalized on Monday after jumping from a helicopter into the sea, about 40 meters high, without a parachute, while trying to beat a world record.
John Bream, 34, known as the “flying fish”, fell at a speed of around 120 km / h in the Solent Strait in the south of the United Kingdom. According to the country’s press, the athlete wanted to break the world record for the greatest free fall on water from an aircraft. The objective he set for himself was accomplished but he paid a high price for it. After he went headfirst into the water, he was found passed out by the divers who accompanied him and was then sent to the hospital.
The mission carried out by John Bream – once a paratrooper in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland – was also aimed at raising funds for institutions to support war veterans with mental health problems.
Bream’s leap has yet to be verified by the Guinness Book of Records. The current world record holder for the highest jump into the water (regardless of whether from an aircraft or elsewhere) is the Swiss-Brazilian Laso Schaller, who jumped from a height of 58 meters, from a cliff in the Cascata del Salto, Switzerland, in 2015.
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