http://www.channel4.com/news/aussie-tourist-survives-bungee-jump-snap
Someone just posted this on UKC. Holy crap!!!!!! 
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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.
And only 22, bless 'er.
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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.
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That isn't a joke, its nasty. Bloke could have gone into shock. I would have got V angry too.
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Agreed.
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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.
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and noel edmonds was nowhere to be seen
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Having walked across that bridge a few times I can assure you it is a long way down!
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she was on the news.
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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!!!
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"I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught into," she said.
hard as
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Having bungeed from that bridge, I agree that it's a long way down!
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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!
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I imagine you have to sign a waiver?*
*I have no idea if you do.
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You would certainly think that you would, although quite how rope snaps could be justified I am not sure.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXhH4MZqgWYShit likethat happens all the time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sriUfHuHSXYThey just don't mention it in the sales pitch
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Jesus. Karl Pilkington was right all along
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When I did it many years ago there was a second rope.
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This is a classic as well, the water underneath it there for a reason
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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.
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Whilst I'm not into this compensation culture I would be suing them senseless!
uh, huh, and im not a racist.....
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This ones very cool! the guys nuts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bbfzustvMI was in the bath tub licking rocks out of my dumb ass for two weeks, I wonder why
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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.
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That should say picking
, but I don't doubt he might attempt licking them out!
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Never mind, repeat story!
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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.
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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.
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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!!
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Double post!
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She lives in the same suburb as me over here in Oz, big news over here today!
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i'm glad she (and everyone else whose rope failed) lived to tell the tale
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