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A Hampshire man who was seriously injured in a parachuting accident eight years ago is rebuilding his life by giving talks about the Mary Rose shipwreck.
Neil Clements, from Gosport, had been part of the Royal Navy Raiders Freefall parachute display team when a training jump went badly wrong, putting him in a coma.
As well as breaking his neck and leg and shattering his pelvis, he was left with a brain injury. After years of intensive therapy, he is now benefitting from outreach and volunteer opportunities offered at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
Talking to BBC South's Inside Out programme, he said: "The parachute collapsed at 400ft above the ground so I fell at 18mph and hit the ground and broke my neck, broke my leg, shattered my pelvis, and the crash hat I was wearing pierced my skull and gave me a brain injury.
"I was left in a coma for up to 12 weeks afterwards, totally unconscious. "I volunteer giving presentations every Monday.
It helps improve my speech and my memory - my short term memory was very bad - that has improved.
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