I thought they were basically correct. I developed a rule of thumb from my SAR experience that it took a fall of forty feet, rather than 30, to be fatal, but that is a minor quibble. Actually, what the victim lands on has a big impact as well.

They could do another article about how movies exaggerate the dangers posed by encounters with wild animals, which seem to happen with more frequency in flicks than in real life. I don't think I have ever seen a movie involving scuba diving where they didn't cue the shark - immediately