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Ten years ago a man died during a bungee jump because the rope was too long. Also happened in Brazil. Don’t go bungee jumping in Brazil, it’s apparently organized by morons.
https://metro.co.uk/2016/12/20/man-died-in-bungee-jump-because-rope-was-too-long-6334789/
WHILE HER FIANCÉ FILMED IT AND DIDNT SAY ANYTHING
Oh, the anticipat.....
The video was pretty disturbing. So many people standing around yet no one noticed till right after she was thrown
Oh my god! That's horrifying.
This is not a good place for job inertia, clearly.
The article says none of them remembers or can say who was responsible. All 3 are arrested on manslaughter charges.
The explanation reeks of bored, routine job inertia. That’s horrifying.
I came across this on youtube
That was mundanely horrific.
By that I mean it was mundane until the realization of what was wrong.
Everybody was calm. Everybody was having a good time. Everybody was doing their role.
That is, until the realization occurs.
Someone missed a step. Someone didn't do a final safety check. Three people just threw a woman off a cliff.
And the rope was still coiled on the ground.
That's gonna haunt me. I really wish I didn't watch that.
As a recreational sky and scuba diver, hard disagree on doing their role. One final safety check should have come after she checked it, a buddy checked it, she checked again, etc.
This is a bunch of amateurs trying to make money off tourists without knowing what they’re doing. I had a boat driver run into a coral reef for the same reason except thankfully no one died.
One final safety check should have come after she checked it
Frankly, if I was running this operation, I'd have chalked out zones requiring different amounts of equipment to proceed through, depending on how close you are to the jump.
Example, to be in this area, you need to have had a safety briefing, to be in this area, you need to have your harness and helmet on, to get to the next area, you need to be connected to a safety line, then the next area requires that you are connected to the primary line, and the last area requires that a jump director reviewed your setup and put a visible "jump ready" flag on your harness.
That's where the horror I mention hits. The realization that things have gone wrong and that people didn't do things they were supposed.
Everybody is acting like everything is fine, when in fact someone has made a lethal mistake and the others that were supposed to catch those mistakes haven't.
A cascading wave of failures led to a woman's death.
The thing is that everyone should have had a specific role and they didn't. One guy said they were all kind of responsible for everything jointly. You can't use this type of system for an activity like this. One person has to be specifically responsible for securely attaching that rope to her ankles.
Damn, that 2nd point of view sounds like the woman filming makes some remark but doesn't shout out. It's like a few people noticed the problem but nobody wants to be the one to call out. This is the kind of stupid shit I'd do in a dream.
According to the YouTube captions, the person in the first clip says, "Gente! Gente, ~~acorda~~ a corda, velho!", which is, "Guys! Guys, ~~wake up~~ the rope, man!"
The person in the second clip says, "Ai, meu Deus do ćeu!", which is apparently just, "Oh my God" -- going by tone, I wouldn't say the second person had noticed the issue, but it sounded like the first one did and was in disbelief.
There seems to be a miss translation on the first saying. What she says translate to " Hey!! Hey!! (Watch out) the rope, mate". "Acorda" translates tô "wakeup". "A corda" translates to someone pointing to the substantive "hope". But they both sound the same without a context.
Furthermore, she indeed seems to realize that something was working at that moment.
Did you mean "rope"?
CW: It's a video of the incident.
Not graphic but still...
Holy shit that must've been absolutely horrifying.
Someone linked a video. The person looks like they believed they were safe. Hopefully they never realized and died immediately.
Another article that I read said that when they got down to her the nurse that treated her said she was still alive with a low heartbeat and slow breathing...
That doesn't mean conscious. I'd imagine maybe a confused moment of "shouldn't that pull me up about now?" except the impact and loss of consciousness prior to the complete thought.
I did a 100ft free fall into a net once. When the adrenaline is going, you have plenty of time to think about it. Mathematically, I know the drop took about 2.5 seconds, but it felt like a full two minutes. My perception of it was 30 seconds of "Wow, this view is really nice" and 90 seconds of "What the fuck? Where's the net? Why am I still falling? What the fuck?!"
So, yeah, she probably had plenty of time to panic.
I did an 18m cliff jump from a deep water solo climb into the sea.
Took so long I thought I'd missed the sea. Opened my eyes to see what was happening and the sea was right there saying "surprise!".
I burst most of the blood vessels in both my eyes.
I burst most of the blood vessels in both my eyes.
how is your vision? I guess that doesn't heal much :(
I slid at least 2 miles on my motorcycle, well I was off my motorcycle sliding on the pavement, I maybe slid 80 feet, no I didn't feel the bone as it was shaved down by the pavement, adrenaline gives plenty of time but hopefully blunted the pain.
Hopefully they never even knew. Just assumed the catch would come until it suddenly didn't and they never noticed.
Wtf kind of place would do that
I accidentally saw the video. Because of the type of jump, they don't trust people to get far enough away from the bridge on their own, so they pick the person up, hold them at shoulder height, trot forward a couple of paces, and throw the person off. And they did that, they just ... left the bungee rope on the ground to their left and threw her off the bridge. No one even said anything until just after she'd been thrown :(