--- title: Watch What Happens When a SkyDiver Drops a GoPro at 3000 Meters description: Mesmerizing video from a GoPro that plummeted 3,000 meters after falling from a skydiver has gone viral. canonical: https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-08T09:39:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:30.505Z og:title: Watch What Happens When a GoPro Falls 3,000m og:description: It comes off a skydiver's helmet and begins a mesmerizing descent og:url: https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/ 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 What Happens When a GoPro Falls 3,000m twitter:description: It comes off a skydiver's helmet and begins a mesmerizing descent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is What Happens When a GoPro Falls 3000 Meters > Sponsored content. 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Here are some of the best GoPRo videos on the Internet._ by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Apr 8, 2015 9:39 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Apr 8, 2015 9:39 AM UTC Footage from a GoPro camera that plummeted 3,000 meters after falling from a skydiver has gone viral, after a man uploaded the video to Youtube. Kristoffer Örstadius says his father found the GoPro in a forest near Kristianstad, Sweden with the memory card intact. The incredible video shows a group of skydivers jumping out of a plane. After about 30 seconds of free falling the camera gets dropped and hurtles towards the ground, spinning frantically as it falls. Örstadius uploaded the footage with the hopes of finding the owner, and as luck would have it, a day after posting the video he issued an update saying the owner was “a parachutist in Everöd in Skåne.” _Read next:_ [_Here’s the New Camera That Could Kill GoPro_](http://time.com/3728253/xiaomi-yi-action-camera-gopro/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/"},"headline":"This Is What Happens When a GoPro Falls 3000 Meters","datePublished":"2015-04-08T09:39:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:30.505Z","description":"It comes off a skydiver's helmet and begins a mesmerizing descent","url":"https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","camera","video","GoPro","sweden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"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":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3785431/skydiver-gopro-falls-3000-meters-found/","name":"This Is What Happens When a GoPro Falls 3000 Meters"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME's Best GoPro Videos","description":"What do jump ropes and great white sharks have in common? 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