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Have you ever done it?.

Would you do it after watching this video?.


A big NO for me.



CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—An Australian tourist bungee jumping in Africa plunged 111 metres into a river when her cord snapped, but she managed to swim to safety with a broken collarbone and her legs tied together.
Erin Langworthy told Nine Network television news Sunday that she blacked out briefly when she hit the Zambesi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe on Dec. 31.

“I felt like I’d been slapped all over,” the 22-year-old from Perth said.
Video taken of the jump shows the cord snapping and Langworthy smacking into the river before the current pulled her into rapids.
“You get sucked under and then you pop up so it’s very disorienting — I didn’t know which was up or down,” she said.
She said the trailing cord repeatedly snagged, so she “had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.”

Langworthy swam through the rapids to reach the Zimbabwe bank.
Southern Province Police Commissioner Brenda Muntemba told tahe Post Zambia newspaper that Langworthy was treated at a clinic in Zimbabwe before being evacuated to South Africa.

The jump from the Victoria Falls Bridge is operated by Safari Par Excellence, whose website describes the bungee experience as “111 metres of pure Adrenalin!”

https://www.thestar.com/news/article/1112437--woman-survives-plunge-after-bungee-cord-snaps?bn=1
 
Erin Langworthy 22 of Perth, Australia is battered and bruised but alive.
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I've skydived several times, paraglided once, whitewater-rafted several times, ziplined 3x in Brazil and bungee-jumped twice. For me, bungee jumping was the worst because it's so fast and you think that you're going to hit the water and boom the cord brings you back; it's scary and I've had a fear of falling backwards to my death forever. If I'm going to kick the bucket, I want see it! Mountain/Rock climbing is something I wouldn't do because of the falling backwards fear.

It's good to see she's going to be okay, she's kinda hot.
 
This is one of those: what's wrong with this picture?

I'll tell you: bungee jumping on the zimbabwe border. Ok, now that's like having someone say "oh, sure, drink the water in mexico, it's PERFECTLY fine...."....I mean, wouldn't you risk your life in a country that has safety standards and inspections? Now that doesn't make it perfectly safe, but hell, who are the inspectors in zimbabwe? Two drunk goat herders who also part time as the undertakers?

Like when I went scuba diving in the Dominican Republic. Did I go with "two dudes and a tank"? No. I went with the 2 guys who were from Montreal and relocated their business down there.....
 
tboy said:
This is one of those: what's wrong with this picture?

I'll tell you: bungee jumping on the zimbabwe border. Ok, now that's like having someone say "oh, sure, drink the water in mexico, it's PERFECTLY fine...."....I mean, wouldn't you risk your life in a country that has safety standards and inspections? Now that doesn't make it perfectly safe, but hell, who are the inspectors in zimbabwe? Two drunk goat herders who also part time as the undertakers?

Like when I went scuba diving in the Dominican Republic. Did I go with "two dudes and a tank"? No. I went with the 2 guys who were from Montreal and relocated their business down there.....

^^^

Yep, I agree.

Damn cute girl too!
 
tboy said:
This is one of those: what's wrong with this picture?

I'll tell you: bungee jumping on the zimbabwe border. Ok, now that's like having someone say "oh, sure, drink the water in mexico, it's PERFECTLY fine...."....I mean, wouldn't you risk your life in a country that has safety standards and inspections? Now that doesn't make it perfectly safe, but hell, who are the inspectors in zimbabwe? Two drunk goat herders who also part time as the undertakers?

Like when I went scuba diving in the Dominican Republic. Did I go with "two dudes and a tank"? No. I went with the 2 guys who were from Montreal and relocated their business down there.....

Scuba Diving in Fiji was awesome. :)
 
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