Watch a GoPro-camera fall 10,000 feet with memory card intact

WASHINGTON — A Swedish man who found a GoPro camera with an intact memory card in the woods discovered the camera had fallen from a skydiver and filmed its own 10,000-foot drop, UPI reports.

YouTube user Kristoffer Orstadius, who shared the video on the site, said his father found the camera in a wooded area in Gringelstad and discovered the intact memory card contained footage showing how the camera was dropped by a skydiver and fell about 10,000 feet to the ground.

The camera falls from the skydiver around the video’s 1:30 mark and records its fall. The camera appears to survive the impact on the ground and continues to film from inside a patch of grass.

The video was on YouTube for one day before the skydiver was identified as Everod resident Tobias Persson.

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