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[gregmattes]

It’s crazy how resilient, yet fragile the human body can be.

[jace]

i don’t think ppl from hundreds of years ago would be too shocked considering people picnicked with their families and watched battles during the civil war like it was a live drama

[inkcritters]

as a (mildly ashamed) resident of r/eyeblech, you would be surprised how far people can bounce, which would account for the few meters he seemingly flies from the ledge

[mountain.hippie]

As an emergency responder and ER Tech, I've seen people survive some crazy traumatic injuries, and although it's rare, it is possible he survived at least a little bit afterwards, though I highly doubt he lived much longer than a few hours judging by his state, sadly. The blood in the water seems appropriate color and amount for a head injury of this magnitude. The injuries seem very legit and if they are faked they are done very well. My issue is with the doctors: firstly the patient has an endotracheal tube inserted which would be impossible to do with these injuries and it's hooked up to nothing?! Where's the respirator or ventilator?? Why not just trach the guy?! Second, I get this is a different country to mine, but these guys don't seem to be giving the slightest care about keeping his CSpine stable and that's rule Numero uno for an injury of this magnitude, not even a back brace? Cranial manipulation without stabilization? It makes me skeptical, but it may just be a sad case where they just saw this guy as a lost cause by this point :(

[SakuraAsranArt]

The human body can survive some pretty severe trauma and situations that do seem, to onlookers, to be unsurvivable. Some examples:
Phineas Gage, who survived having a metal rod blasted through his head.
Charla Nash, who survived having her entire face destroyed by her friend's pet chimpanzee
Anatoli Burgorski, who survived having a proton beam from a particle accelarator fired through his head (Kyle Hill has an excellent video on this subject).

[Disturban]

Criminally underrated channel! i remember this video from back in the day

[brokenfoxproductions]

I swear I saw something just like this whenever I was younger but it was actually a quarry where he jumped and he hit his head on a rock and split his face open. It was part of a PSA about not swimming in abandoned mines or quarries, because in the area of the United States I live in, there are a lot of abandoned strip mines that have flooded and some of them have been made into public parks or lakes but others are completely off-limits because they are unsafe. Even the ones that have been turned into actual lakes or swimming holes by our state government still have construction equipment in the bottom from the day that they accidentally struck an underground river and flooded both the quarries.

[tiffanysjustcoloring]

I’m a nurse and my teachers absolutely traumatized our entire class in 2010 by screening this video *in class on the big screen*. I literally can’t remember a word of the discussion about the injuries etc afterward. I just wanted out of the room.

[drjekyllmshyde]

Hi, ED doc here. It’s absolutely possible that injury is from a hit like this. It doesn’t look like the same person to be though. My guess would be the injury in the video fell onto a flat surface face first

[Boogidy]

The spot he jumped from was a popular diving spot but after this accident a fence was put up to stop people from jumping. They still dive from that spot to this day.

[ppbrain]

From a point of a training mortician (not yet licensed, I've only had experience with cadavers in school), I think the first video may be edited, like you theorized. They're is a chance that he moved bc of spasms or the tide, but you're right that the bloodspread in the water could easily be fake.
As for the second video, absolutely real. Most likely it was just his face and frontal brain that is damaged, he could still breath if his trachea and windpipe was in tact, which with the lack of neck injuries present on the neck, no bruising or small cuts at a. Undoubtedly his upper and lower jaw are shattered, as is his frontal skull.
However, I think the hospital clip could be from a completely different injury. The main reason is because in the hospital clip we can tell the injury is at a vertical injury, and the first clip absolutely does not hit completely vertically. Your point about the teeth is also accurate, generally ledges are corner shaped, hitting a corner like that would shatter some of the teeth at least, with the force he hit the ledge, he would probably have a broken nose and facial bruising that would be obvious, something we don't see in the hospital video.
Completely a theory, but I think the second video had to be an injury cut by something thin, whether it be by a knife, a machinery accident, a car crash hitting something like a shattered window, an angled or broken piece of metal from the roof or door, or something like a motorcycle flinging someone off and hitting some sharper object like a table for example. The main reason I'm not sure of this is because of the lack of injuries around everything that isn't his head, with car crashes you would get bruising, with an attack with a knife it would have to be something like a cleaver or machete to that clean of a cut, but personally I think the machinery accident could be the most plausible, think of a piece of metal flinging, quite literally head on, at such a high pace that the air or tension pressures from broke machinery could cause.
I also wanted to mention something you may want to bring to attention if you ever cover another medical gore video, a lot of people trade gore or sell it, and frankly many people will exploit something from their job if they know they can benefit from it. It's mostly theory and some interactions with people planning to be nurses and doctors and their view on graphic content online from my classes primarily. If someone, a medical care professional, knows they can profit from filming shocking cases, the more morally bad will. Gore trade is very real and the whole trade is exploitative. If you ever cover another famous gore video, I think it would benefit to bring up gore trade, even on the surface web (Facebook and forums mostly), and the dubious morality and your personal feelings on it. It's a complicated subject but it would be cool to see someone other than Nyx Fears talk honestly about it and reflect on gore trade.
Thank you for your effort with all your videos, been watching you for a year and a half now, I appreciate your commentary and you always do interesting topics, thank you for all your effort. You're seriously underrated.

[MorganMortician]

I saw this after my boyfriend died from jumping off a cliff in 2008. Needless to say that added an extra layer of horror. Have not been able to watch it since and it will always be the only gore video that gets me.

[wormworm]

If you’ve seen traumatic injuries in person you’ll probably know that blood can and does look extremely bright red and even pink or luminous under some conditions. I saw a horse cut its leg open [she made a full recovery with minor neurological damage :) ] and let me tell you, horses have a LOT more blood than people so I got a good look at how pink it was that day.

[worriedmary]

The greenish blue color of the water could be making the red look more vibrant since they're complimentary. Just a thought

[jonmiller]

You think it would've shocked people a century ago, but don't forget children were coming home mammed from a machining accident to a family wrecked with Spanish flu, syphilis and polio.

[bottlerocketcentral]

"this video will contain vague discussions of a video that some might find extremely distressing"


ah
the perfect video to watch before going to bed

[SergioLeonardoCornejo]

I saw someone talking about this a few days ago in another diving accident video. People need to understand to not take unnecessary risks.

[wwondertwin]

When I was a little kid in the pre-Internet world, it was already common knowledge that this could happen to your body if you land flat against water. Swimming teachers and parents always said you need to break your landing into water with something to pierce through the surface, like your feet first or arms first. Never land flat in water. There was a widely known case in my country where the person got disemboweled from landing belly first. Water actually is tougher than diamond when the surface tension is high enough and you can cut through stone and iron with water. Your flesh is no match for it, if it hits you just right - or you hit it it just right.

[marshmellowpops]

Ah I remember this vid a while ago, the most shocking thing was the ppl gasping after seeing the water suddenly turn a bright cherry red color. Horrible for everyone really, especially the doctor holding the two halves of his head together. Like how the hell would anyone begin to treat an injury so severe?

[emo_penguin]

Thank you TII for taking that one for us, I legitimately cannot fathom how you watched it more than once. Ugh that video loves to make random appearances in my brain. I hate it, thanks!