This video shows 22-year-old Australian tourist Erin Langworthy bungee jumping from the Victoria Falls Bridge, 111m over the Zambesi River. It’s just a normal tourist video… until the cord breaks and she falls into the crocodile-infested waters.
Miraculously, she survived after hurting herself quite badly and swimming out of the river rapids with her legs still tied. Fun!
Talking to Channel 9 news, the Erin said that it was quite rough:
It went black straight away and I felt like I’d been slapped all over. The water was going quite quickly and then I started to hear the roaring. It’s like being in waves, you get sucked under and then you pop up so it’s very disorienting, I didn’t know which was up or down.
Not scary enough? It gets worse:
It was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris. I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.
Fortunately, she survived the crash, the crocodiles and the rapids with just a fractured collar bone and massive bruises. [ninemsn via El Mundo]
Gray
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9:24 AMBungee jumping in Zimbabwe huh?
Darwinism ftw!
cayal
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:13 AMIgnorance ftw.
David Shears
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9:39 AM“Promise me you’ll never go bungee jumping in Mexico, they just don’t have the regulations.”
-The Cable Guy
TvZ
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:00 AMWhat a load of rubbish. Over dramatise much?
Yes her bungee cord snapped, but crock invested waters? Not quite. Yes there is the odd crock but not “invested” by long shot. At least not in that part of the Zambezi river.
cayal
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:12 AMWe saw two when we went Rafting along there, however when we hit a long stretch with no rapids we were okay to jump in and float down so it’s not THAT bad (though still, there are crocs).
tinmancactus
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:16 AMInfested.
Perhaps the bungee company invested in some crocodiles, therefore making it infested?
MDolley
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:35 AMSmart crocs. With global economy the way it is I think investing in a river makes more sense than the stock market. :)
(Is anybody else picturing crocodiles that look like the monopoly man?)
Ammusionist
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 1:14 PMHow many does it take to eat a tied up swimmer? The odd one?
jinn229
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:07 AMEnglish, do you speak it?
Sketchy
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM“the Erin”, the
Ed
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:19 PMOf course there was an American yelling “OH MY GOD” seriously, they are everywhere.
Still you’d expect there to be someone down there in a boat. I mean swimming rapids with your feet bound, not the easiest thing to do.
Charles
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 2:29 PMUhhh frankly I couldn’t give a shit about the crocs, I’m much more concerned that the cable broke like it was nuffin’. She hardly looked particularly heavy or anything. Crazy. And not to mention those rocks…
JonBOY
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:23 PMOuch! It’s unpleasant enough when a stretched rubber band breaks and snaps back. One can imagine that would have been an ultra mega rubber-band snappage backlash in the ass!!!
Franz
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9:18 PMLOL.
Getting out of there will knot be easy.
I bet she was ropable that the cord broke.
Hope she gets to shore before the tied comes in.
Her favorite card game will never be Snap.
A DVD on this event will be out next fall.
Her fiancee is not sure she’s ready to take the plunge.
smurfydog
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:52 PMYou certaily Dived right in and Rapidly covered all the bases there in your comment.
After all, when you Go In Head First there’s always the risk of making a Splash.
In the Current climate I might hold off for now and see if your comments Bounce Back and hurt you, or if I should just take the Plunge and see what Floats.
Paul
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:11 AMUggh, as she goes down you can see how frayed and crap the rope is. I’ve never been bungee jumping but if this happened I would want to be in a country that made the company have some insurance company I could sue.
Daniel Sinnott
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 12:47 AMYou may want to do a google image search of a bungee cord … this is what they look like – hundreds and hundreds of smaller elastic strands bundled together.