An extreme video that might be seen as a testimonial to the ruggedness of GoPro cameras probably won’t attract people to the sport of skydiving.
A GoPro camera that fell off a skydiver’s helmet in Sweden was found intact and the finder, in an attempt to reunite the camera with its owner, posted the dizzying video it contained to YouTube.
The camera flew off the helmet within the first minute of the jump from roughly 3,000 feet and began spinning, the browns, golds and greens of the Earth smearing in a swirl that, while pretty to look at, puts the viewer’s equilibrium off-kilter.
The shape of a field spinning in the center of the frame gets bigger and bigger and the video ends surprisingly with little bounce. The final scene is the out-of-focus green grass of a meadow out in which the camera came to rest.
The video, which has more than 270,00 views, was posted April 3 by Kristoffer Orstadius after his father found the camera. According to The Daily Dot, the camera owner was found in Everod, a town nearby the impact zone.
