A lunatic with access to a plastic boat destroyed the world waterfall record after falling 127 feet on Brazil’s Rio Sacre. Heavy rainfall boosted the Amazon tributary to 5000 cubic feet of water per second—whatever the hell that means. Apparently the massive volume of water cranking over the falls softened the landing enough that Pedro Oliva could survive a freefall from such a tremendous height. People jump off bridges much lower than this waterfall to kill themselves, and Oliva’s freefall was clocked at 2.9 seconds. That’s a lot of time to yell “Oh shit!” over and over.

via Outside

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