--- title: Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair description: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUQHm2B5A] A man who survived a seizure while skydiving from 12,000 feet in Australia said he spent 30 seconds unconscious in free fall before... canonical: https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-02T12:59:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:16.574Z og:title: Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair og:description: Skydiver called it the "scariest moment" of his life og:url: https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair twitter:description: Skydiver called it the "scariest moment" of his life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 2, 2015 12:59 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 2, 2015 12:59 PM UTC A man who survived a seizure while skydiving from 12,000 feet in Australia said he spent 30 seconds unconscious in free fall before his instructor saved him. Christopher Jones described the “scariest moment” of his life in a video published on YouTube on Sunday. Jones can be seen convulsing about halfway through the two-minute clip that was published under the [YouTube account](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUQHm2B5A) “Nomadic Adrenaline…” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australia-skydiver-survives-midair-seizure-unconscious-free-fall-n315251?cid=par-time-article%5F20150302) _Read next:_ [_5 Penetrating Facts About Sword Swallowing_](http://time.com/3721173/sword-swallowing-world-sword-swallowers-day/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/"},"headline":"Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair","datePublished":"2015-03-02T12:59:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:16.574Z","description":"[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUQHm2B5A] A man who survived a seizure while skydiving from 12,000 feet in Australia said he spent 30 seconds unconscious in free fall before...","url":"https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3728123/skydiving-seizure-video/","name":"Watch a Skydiving Instructor Save a Man Having a Seizure in Midair"}}]}] ```