Bungee-Jumping... not for me, thank you.

[Red-Coat]

21-year-old university student Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas had booked a bungee-jumping experience yesterday from the Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, Brazil.

The organiser’s operatives carried her to the edge of the bridge and, just after she was hurled from it into the ravine below, spectators were heard frantically shouting “the rope, people, the rope!”

Tragically, no-one had attached the elastic rope to her harness and she plunged more than 130 feet to her death.

Statistics show the fatality rate for bungee jumpers at around 1 in 500,000 jumps (roughly the same as for skydivers) but there have been 7 deaths so far this year, mostly arising from faulty equipment or operator errors.

I can help feeling that the bare statistics are akin to referencing the overall safety of air travel without acknowledging the greater risk if you fly with Aeroflot.

RIP Maria.

 

[AU Seeker]

3 have been arrested in this tragedy, not only did they not do what they should have done (who could forget to attach the bungee cord!!) but they also weren't licensed nor have permits to be doing this, I hope they throw the book at them and they spend a LONG time in jail!!

'They Didn't Even Have Authorisation to Be There': Three Arrested After Woman Dies in Bungee Jump Fall

Three men have been arrested after a young woman died during an illegal rope jump in São Paulo. The operators failed to attach a safety cord, leading to her fatal fall.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

 

[Digger54]

OMFG! What a bunch of idiots!

 

[AU Seeker]

I'm sure those 3 are pointing fingers at each other saying it was the other guy's job to attach the bungee cord!!

Idiots is not a good enough description for them!!

 

[Red-Coat]

Reportedly, the jump was organised by the ‘Entre Cordas’ company and an associated adventure group instructor company called ‘Ih Voei’ (which translates as “Oh, I flew/jumped”)

Brazilian civil police reportedly said Entre Cordas does not have a license or official authorization to conduct bungee jumping or rope jumping and that the company and its associated instructors were operating in an unregulated capacity, lacking the proper permits and safety standards.

Previous videos of other jumps organised by the company at the same bridge show participants with a thick safety cord around their waists as they are launched off the bridge for ‘rope jumps’ rather than ‘bungee jumps’. The difference is that rope jumping uses a less elastic cord such that the jumpers swing back and forth rather than bouncing at the end of their jump.

The three men arrested are being held on suspicion of "homicide with dolus eventualis", meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway.

 

[Digger54]

I'm sure they will have plenty of time in prison to reflect on how their incompetence and neglect sent a young woman to her death.

 

[Red-Coat]

How on earth did this escape attention until it was too late?

 

[releventchair]

Bad.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

How on earth did this escape attention until it was too late?

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I saw where someone shared a post that was made by someone that was there. They stated everyone watching knew it wasn’t attached but no one said anything. Some thought they were doing a warm up and would bring her back and hook it on, others thought they weren’t seeing what they were seeing and if they were seeing what they were seeing then surely others would speak up. Someone that replied said the are a psychologist and he’s not surprised, they said the term for it where we’re conditioned to not question authority and as ragtag as those guys are they were still the authority, “professionals”.

 

[Nathan W]

A ritual sacrifice she knew nothing about. But seriously those guys must have been on drugs or something to be that incompetent