[Closed] Bungee jump and the rope snaps!!!!

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That is one raggedy looking rope.

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That is one raggedy looking rope.

A particularly cruel joke was played on a mate when he did a bungee jump in Australia a couple of years ago

As he was tipping over the edge and beyond the point of no return a travel buddy shouted 'NOOOOOO' and threw what looked like the unattached end of the rope into his view.

He wasn't happy and didn't speak to the lad for about a week - proper hacked off. He still refrains from talking about it to this day.

That isn't a joke, its nasty. Bloke could have gone into shock. I would have got V angry too.

Agreed.

lucky to get away without a kicking I reckon, I would have been about ready to throw him off the bridge had he done it to me.

and noel edmonds was nowhere to be seen 😯

Having walked across that bridge a few times I can assure you it is a long way down!

she was on the news.
very lucky lady.

I've done several and I don't think a lad of my weight would have faired as well as her!! She wasn't far from return point when it gave!! The bungee did look "well used" to be fair!!!

"I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught into," she said.

hard as

Having bungeed from that bridge, I agree that it's a long way down!

I thought you had to have two ropes one of which is a bungee the other a safety rope?

Whilst I'm not into this compensation culture I would be suing them senseless!

I imagine you have to sign a waiver?*

*I have no idea if you do.

You would certainly think that you would, although quite how rope snaps could be justified I am not sure.
Bet the waiver is watertight, otherwise the insurance would be all over them

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that happens all the time!

They just don't mention it in the sales pitch 😆

Jesus. Karl Pilkington was right all along

When I did it many years ago there was a second rope.

This is a classic as well, the water underneath it there for a reason 💡

I thought you had to have two ropes one of which is a bungee the other a safety rope?

No, that would be worse. If the bungee snapped and you were brought up short by a static safety rope, the jerk of it would probably break your neck.

The guys who ran the bungee junp I did told a story of how some bloke had done a jump with them and wouldn't shut up about how many jumps he'd done, how he'd done the highest blah blah so when he was at the point of no return on his graceful swallow dive one of the instructors shouted "Shit, the rope's not attached!"
Guy apparently turned into a screaming flailing mass of limbs all the way down but it shut him up. 😉

tails - Member

Whilst I'm not into this compensation culture I would be suing them senseless!

uh, huh, and im not a racist.....

This ones very cool! the guys nuts!

I was in the bath tub licking rocks out of my dumb ass for two weeks, I wonder why ❓

Bungee rockets/catapults normally have a safety line weaved into the rope, but for the reasons mentioned above this won't work for a jump. If the rope snapped at it's furthest stretch, she would have been fairly close to the water and not actually moving very fast, a 20 foot drop into the water wouldn't hurt much. Problems happen the wrong length of rope is set for the weight ofnthe jumper, ie the rope used is too long. Jumper hits the deck before full stretch is reached. Head trauma is normally the result of that.

Bungee ropes are quite an exact science, rope makers know how much they stretch depending on how many wraps are used and the weight on the end of it. A good jump master could get you within a couple of inches of the ground.

In a previous life I ran a SCAD diving operation in Ayia Napa we used to a good repertoire of "jokes" as we dropped people. The bungee down under guys also had a habit of playing the odd joke on their clients.

That should say picking 😯 , but I don't doubt he might attempt licking them out!

Never mind, repeat story!

No, that would be worse. If the bungee snapped and you were brought up short by a static safety rope, the jerk of it would probably break your neck.

Second rope was also a bungee about 2' longer than the other. Both inside the same outer cover. Main attached to the ankles, spare attached to a climbing harness. Both separately attached to the platform.

It was almost 20 years ago so my memory could be clouded.

It was rumoured that the guy who set the Zim jump up about 20 years ago now actually relieved himself on the way down the first time as it was so far.

2nd one I did I lost all the skin on the inside of my ankles when the bindings bit, they obviously weren't tight enough!! Put it this way, after I felt the slip of the cuffs I didn't point my toes anymore!!

Double post!

She lives in the same suburb as me over here in Oz, big news over here today!

i'm glad she (and everyone else whose rope failed) lived to tell the tale 😯

I wouldn't do anything risky in Africa, it's dangerous enough at the best of times. here's a pic I took of a typical lorry tyre:

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3 second free fall, ouch!

globalti - Member
I wouldn't do anything risky in Africa

Used to live in Zambia as a nipper. The small addition problem with this bit of river is that it's full of crocodiles. If the fall doesn't kill you, the crocs will etc., etc.

[i]I imagine you have to sign a waiver?*[/i]

In Africa..., and you'll sue who otherwise.

[i]I wouldn't do anything risky in Africa[/i]

my mum caught a taxi bus in the Cameroon about 8 years ago.

'rules of the road' are that largest vehicle stays in the middle on the good bit and the smaller traffic pulls across onto the rough stuff at the edge.

The driver of her vehicle didn't.

12 of the 15 people on board were killed and she was put with the bodies for a couple of hours until someone noticed she was still breathing.

3 days in a hut with no medical attention, 3 weeks in 'hospital' in the capital followign a helicopter evacuation (no one explained to her or her companion that you needed to pay for drugs etc before they administer them so she got little more treatment than she woudl in a hotel).

eventually was accompanied home on a standard flight and had an MRI in Manchester where they disgnosed a fractured skull, broken neck, broken shoulder and 3 broken fingers.

she's currently being used as a 'control' for various studies regarding head injuries as so few people in this country are injured so badly and have no treatment for so long.

she goes to Mindanau in the Phillipnes fairly regularly now where she's accompanied by a police SWAT team at all times due to the threat fo kidnap. She also pays for the running of an orphanage and 6 schools in India via a charity shop she runs so she visits those fairly regularly.

She's 75 next year but I can't see her slowing down much until she has to.

I did that jump in 1997!

When I did it I was the first with two friends going after. I was being pulled back to the walkway beneath the bridge as my mate, a 'stocky' fellow jumped and they played a trick on my friend who was to jump last.

As 'Stocky' bounced back up towards the bridge on his jump the guys underneath slammed a metal grid down with an almighty crash (out of sight of those on top of the bridge). The people in the know on top shouted "he's hit the bridge, he's hit the bridge".

Oh how we laughed later! My friend jumping last incredibly took little persuasion to jump in spite of this, apparently he was ok when he saw there was no blood!

I dunno how you lot do it. I'm pretty scared of hights and TBH would probably freak just walking over the bridge.. Kudos to you lot that had done these things.

One thing that gets me about this though... bungies are attached to your ankles right, tight, tied on yeah? so when this one failed she'd land in the river, with her legs tied and the remaining heavy water logged rope dragging behind her yeah?

Lucky she didn't drown IMO.

[i]with her legs tied and the remaining heavy water logged rope dragging behind her yeah? [/i]

yes, and the end of the cord got caught on rocks so she had to dive down to free it off!

I wonder how they got the next jumper to go after her?

They interviewed her on 5LIVE this morning. She fell 25m once the rope snapped and was swept away by the current towards a set of rapids. Her ankles were bound together so she couldn’t get out but she managed to grab hold of a rock until somebody got to her!

No injuries from the fall as she had the foresight to protect her head with her arms as she entered the water, but she did receive lacerations from the bungee when it hit her.

Lucky escape!

As I recall you didn't get that close to the water when you jump so even at full extension there'd still be a drop. 25m sounds feasible. Good job the river looks to be fairly high at the time or the rapids could've finished her off.

KinEll*

*other words are available.