If you collide with another person or parachute on a BASE jump, you're doing it wrong.

A skydiver gets ejected from a 9-way freefly jump from a premature opening, which could’ve been fatal had anyone been directly above him. Check. Your. Gear.

This cringe-worthy low cutaway is beyond crazy, but luckily this skydive student walked away without a scratch.

As an inexperienced skydiving student, cutting away can be scary, but altitude is our friend. Following emergency procedures and making a decision to cutaway early with altitude to spare is far better than waiting until the last second — or worse, waiting until it's too late.

Remember the importance of a canopy controllability check: is it there, is it square, does it flare? If not, follow your emergency procedures.

Maybe this student did a controllability check and decided at a higher altitude that it was (relatively) safe to land, but only noticed the fast descent rate as they got close to the ground, then got scared and cutaway? It's hard to know what the student was thinking at the time.

On the bright side, at least he/she doesn't have to look for their main canopy 😉

Two hot air balloons launched from the airport, but heavy fog rolled in quickly as the balloons climbed to altitude.

Despite the poor visibility, this wingsuiter made the decision to jump. He was confident he would make it back to the DZ, but he wasn't aware the fog was so low to the ground.

The other jumpers in the second balloon waited 15 minutes for the fog to clear, and they jumped with clear visibility a few kilometres away from the DZ, which is to be expected on a balloon jump.

The end result for the wingsuiter was to fly his canopy through the fog and land with almost zero visibility. Not a fun experience, but he learned his lesson and will use more caution and patience to avoid making a bad decision like this in the future. Live and learn.

It's never a good situation when your wingsuit zipper opens up while you're in a steep dive. Here's what this skydiver had to say about his "wardrobe malfunction" incident:

"I'm sharing this video to show what I did to mitigate this incident, which I hope can help educate and inform other wingsuit pilots who might find themselves in a similar situation. This is a learning tool and not intended to be a forum for brand-bashing, so please be respectful and keep any "brand wars" comments to yourselves.

I was doing some performance training back in 2014 and experimenting with different approaches for maintaining a steep dive, but things didn't exactly go as planned.

The shoulder zipper on the right arm of my wingsuit blew open, which started off as a small opening that only caused minor instability, but I was able to counter-steer and continued flying. As the zipper continued to open, the instability caused me to flip onto my back and induced a flat spin. Once I recovered from the flat spin, I had to stay in a dive to prevent another flat spin (look closely, you can see the stiffener blown out of the gripper as well).

At this point, I know I have to deploy my main canopy, but first my fingers had to climb their way down to the wrist opening of the malfunctioning wing, then I had to get my hand over the wing to deploy. The elbow of my right arm was fully exposed outside of the wing, so I made sure to deploy as quickly as possible to avoid any entanglements with the loose fabric of the depressurized wing.

Immediately after landing, I carefully inspected the wingsuit and found the zipper slider was still all the way down on the back (top) of the suit and the velcro strip was still fastened, as they both should be. After closely examining the wingsuit with the S&TA a few friends at the DZ, we weren't able to find any physical defects on the equipment or the zippers.

What's the conclusion? It turns out #8 zippers were not sufficient for the stress, durability and strength required in this application. Additional research I did following this incident also confirmed this conclusion."

A small wingsuit flock exits the plane before a freshly licensed jumper who had intended to do a high pull and work on canopy skills. The assumption was that the 'student' would hop 'n pop at 13,500 feet, but he ended up taking it down to 11,000 feet and deploying in the middle of the wingsuit flock. Remember: assumptions and complacency can get us into trouble up there, so be sure to discuss the details of what you plan do to on your jump and jump the plan.

A skydive student couldn't regain control from a spin on her AFF Category D jump, but she maintained altitude awareness and deployed mid-spin.

Skip to the 0:50 second mark to catch the close call — a near miss high speed collision after break off — but be sure to watch the full video from the beginning to see how this jump unfolds from the exit.

It starts off as a 6-way group, but quickly turns into a zoo dive with varying levels and distances from the base.

There's a burble bump-n-grind just before break off, but the real WTF moment happens after break off when a meat missile flies by as this skydiver (POV) was tracking away. Luckily there was no collision, because a collision at that speed could be fatal.

If you find yourself off-level, especially above the formation/base, it's important to maintain altitude awareness and be mindful that other jumpers below you may be at break-off and tracking away while you're still chasing the base.

Also, jumping in smaller groups with jumpers who are at similar skill levels can help reduce the chances of a incident like this.

There are many lessons to be learned from this incident, so please share your thoughts and advice below.

On an AFF Level 5 jump, this skydiving student has a typical dive flow but he loses track of altitude and the instructor reminds him to pull.

As the student reaches back to pull, he becomes slightly unstable and ends up pulling the pilot chute behind him instead of straight out to the side for a clean deployment, which causes the bridle to wrap around his foot. Just before the student flips onto his back to try to clear the entanglement around his foot, the d-bag comes out of the container and the lines get entangled with his legs once he's on his back — a scary situation for any skydiver, let alone a student.

Luckily he was able to cutaway, deploy his reserve parachute and land safely.

Phew. That'll get your palms sweating.