Jamie has also launched a book, Life on a Thread, about how he fought back from the brink of death, and created a new and profoundly meaningful life from the wreckage of his experience. We are dedicated to assisting serving and ex-Service men and women who have suffered life-changing limb loss or the use of a limb, an eye or loss of sight. I had a few run-ups to it and then I tried my first one, I didn’t spin quick enough and hit my head quite harshly, but I had so much adrenaline I didn’t feel it at all! The skin on my body has gone, a lot of muscle and sinew and tissue too, I have no ears, no hair, my face is torched and caved in, my eye socket and nose are shattered, my collarbone ripped away, my insides torn to shreds. I actually went back to it, when I was on my hospital bed, I dreamed of going back to the ocean, but I didn't think necessarily that I would be able to dive again,' he said.

Ryan Gosling shrugs off Barbie Oscars drama with a loving kiss from daughter and support from wife Eva Mendes. A soldier who suffered 63 per cent burns when he leapt from his burning plane before it plummeted to the ground has revealed he planned a trip to Dignitas to end his own life after spending 15 gruelling months in hospital. Jamie sustained a total of 60 percent 3rd degree burns to his body and remained in intensive care for 6 months in America in an induced-coma and, following his repatriation, was hospitalised for a further 18 months in the UK.

His grit and determination is commendable and often provides a guiding light for those who have experienced setbacks in their lives.

Further to his extreme burns he endured renal failure, had to undergo kidney dialysis, as well as suffering from pneumonia and septicaemia. The week after they made their pact, Jamie underwent a huge skin-graft operation which was a great success, and he turned a corner in his healing process.

After spraining my ankle around three weeks before this, I was in quite a lot of pain, but I pushed through and used the adrenaline to my advantage. I love going to Revolution Bike Park in Wales, riding all the jumps and having fun with all my mates while doing it.