[Texascavers] Could you survive after falling 45 feet?

Listen to this fascinating Science Friday podcast and remember: if you spread yourself out and fall flat into a specially designed mat, you'd probably live but your organs would hurt. http://www.npr.org/2013/11/29/247381666/at-streb-action-lab-dance-and-physics-collide How is this related to

Re: [Texascavers] Could you survive after falling 45 feet?

speleoste...@aol.com To: Texascavers Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 2:37 pm Subject: Fwd: [Texascavers] Could you survive after falling 45 feet? I fell 25 feet one time in an Indiana cave when I was climbing unbelayed on a cable ladder and it broke. Four of us had gone down

RE: [Texascavers] Could you survive after falling 45 feet?

there that can speak to this issue much better. -Original Message- From: John Greer [mailto:jgr...@greerservices.com] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 2:25 PM To: Cave Tex Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Could you survive after falling 45 feet? I once described a number of European caving accidents