From the comments over there: "I just don't get how not one but two [actually, three] bungee 'professionals' can literally be carrying a jumper across the platform and fail to notice there is no bungee cord attached to the jumper! Then again, how can a jumper fail to notice there is no bungee cord attached to themself? BTW, does anyone know how common it is for jumpers to be carried and tossed off the platform vs. jumpers walking the platform and diving off it on their own steam?"
June 15, 2026
"I even talked to her. I have a habit of joking and saying, ‘Nobody dies on my shift.’ And I told her, 'Duda [Eduarda], nobody dies on my shift.' Even though I wasn’t on my shift there."
Said a nurse named Rayza Dias, quoted in "Bungee jumper who plunged from 130-foot bridge without a cord was still alive when she was found, nurse reveals" (NY Post).
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She didn't know to check; she'd never done it before.
I guess she was a native of Brazil, where this happened, and it is indeed tragic, but: It always amazes me, the risks that people, especially Americans, will take when they're on vacation. And not only that, on vacation where they are a long way from decent medical care, or even emergency response. Bungee jumping, riding zip lines, borderline extreme sports, so on.
they picked her up, and threw her off the bridge.
if was negligence, the Only Person STUPIDER than the tossers,
was the moron that let herself be tossed.
HOW could she not notice that she wasn't hooked up?
oh wait... SHE. now it's making a little more sense
First rule of bungee jumping: have a bungee.
from the link:
"Nurse Rayza Dias was at the scene at the time, and tried to scramble to her crash site at the base of “Skeleton Bridge,” where Rodrigues de Freitas had been taking part in an unlicensed bungee jump."
"No one doubled-check"
Brazil = Third World and determined to stay there.
"Three of the bungee jump operators were arrested and charged with homicide on Sunday after two of them made a break for it following the death and had to be tracked down with a military helicopter."
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If this occurred in the US - and the bungee idiots were illegals - the left would do nothing for punishment. ya know - It was only a woman.
fix'd
All three picked her up, tossed her over, then 2 ran and hid.
used to attend the local traveling Banff film festival. all sorts of exciting & daring sky /gravity defying entertainment.
I recall a famous bungee jumper - jumped off a bridge, and then bounced back so hard he hit the bridge & died on impact.
Things I’ll never do: sky dive, zip lining, bungee jumping, ride on traveling carnival rides (assemblers of these rides use crescent wrenches and hammers).
When my life depends on knots and lines, I must insist the knots are mine.
Did Canada invented one weird MAID trick
“I just don't get how not one but two [actually, three] bungee 'professionals' can… fail to notice there is no bungee cord attached.. .”
That’s easy. If only ONE was in charge, he would have made absolutely sure. With three in charge, each can assume that at least one of the other two made sure
I zip lined once. Determined quickly it was boring.
how to kill your sister or former lover?
*meet us at skeleton bridge - we bring the giant rubber band. Trust us, it will be fun!*
“ In Travels, Michael Crichton describes being deep in a remote, rugged landscape—far from roads, towns, or other people—and suddenly realizing how fragile his situation really is. He notes that out there, a simple accident like slipping and breaking a leg wouldn’t just be painful or inconvenient; it could easily be a death sentence because no one would know he was hurt and help would not arrive in time. That realization hits him with a kind of cold clarity: in the wilderness, all the safety nets of modern life fall away, and his survival depends on his own caution and judgment in a very immediate, non-theoretical way.
“Nobody dies on my shift! Then again, this isn’t my shift”
I just don't get how not one but two [actually, three] bungee 'professionals' can literally be carrying a jumper across the platform and fail to notice there is no bungee cord attached to the jumper! Then again, how can a jumper fail to notice there is no bungee cord attached to themself?
It's the world after COVID. I expect nothing but mediocre shit.
Put an Tesla AI powered robot on the job.
i've never had the urge to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft..
and jumping on a rubber band seems even MORE foolhardy.
on the other hand; i Have rapelled, where i've trusted my life to a Very Sturdy rope, and some pretty darned impressive carbiners and straps.
How far did i drop? just a hundred feet or so.
How far did i slide between stops? not far at all.
Serious Question:
when someone buddy jumps (Tandem Jumps?)..
or allows people to throw them off a bridge..
or rides on a travelling carnaval ride;
WHY does the fact that they're not in control make them think it's "safe"
when i rappelled; guess who checked my harness knots?
Several people.. the last of which (and the 1st of which) was ME
I dont get how thats possible
This is my nightmare. Hence I will never be in this position.
In the video, it clearly visible that no cord is attached to her and it's lying in pile right there in plane sight, and it sounds like a number of people are there watching and nobody says anything until it's too late.
Bungee and crack don't mix!
I suspect bc the gongee was involved.
CHECKLISTS. There is a reason for CHECKLISTS, even though it's easy to see them as time-consuming and probably restaurant.
Also SECONDARY CHECKLISTS.
We took a seaplane tour on the Alaskan coast one week aftera seaplane full of tourists crashed into a cliff in fog. I was... nervous, but also aware that the pilot was probably just about as dedicated to his preflight checklist and his instrument training as he'd been on his first day flying that plane. (Plus, it was a brilliantly clear day.)
You know why this happened to her?
She trusted the experts.
Let that be a lesson to us all.
Those people weren’t professionals. Yes, they earned a wage but it wasn’t like they went to law school or medical school.
The word “professional” is wrongly used all the time. There were only three professions at common law.
People watch these sports on social media and think they are easier than they are. I've noticed a trend - adults being surprised by heat on mountain trails, cold water in lakes, fatigue, sweat, mosquitos. They think you rush enthusiatically forward and it's all fun. You don't need to check the bungee cord on reality TV.
I've done all kinds of stuff like this in different places, and I never had an experience that wasn't safety first. They always have checks and double checks, and of course I make sure myself. These guys were idiots. Unfortunately she trusted them.
As to "credentialed professionals", a doctor just recently put in an artificial heart valve backwards surrounded by professionals like himself. Luckily the patient was saved at another hospital after nearly dying.
“Things I’ll never do: sky dive, zip lining, bungee jumping”
I’ve done zip lining. It’s pretty tame by comparison to the other two. But not without risks. I remember around 10 years ago a story of two newlyweds or maybe fiancés who were zip lining in Costa Rica. (I had been zip lining there just a week or so earlier.) As I recall, she got stuck midway, and he was coming down the line behind her, and barreled into her, and she died from the impact. I haven’t zip lined since, but it’s probably no more dangerous than skiing.
The most dangerous thing you do is driving a car, and you do it every day, like it's nothing. No experts in your car or the others out there, including the huge semi rigs coming right at you at a combined speed over 120 mph and just a few feet away. It's pandemonium, I tell ya!
Sorry, a bit of search shows I had some details wrong. It was in Honduras, not Costa Rica, and the husband died, not the wife.
https://wreg.com/news/man-on-honeymoon-dies-after-crashing-into-wife-in-freak-zip-line-accident/
I quit hang gliding after about 5 years of doing it regularly. I just got scared of it after a while. There are about 10,000 hang pilots in the U.S., and about 1-2 die per year. Which is not an especially high rate for human activities, about the same rate as sky diving, but safer than fishing or boating. The thing is you really notice the risk when you are hanging thousands of feet in the air by a strip of fabric, and completely at the mercy of the wind, and your skill, which must work every time. After having a couple highly skilled friends in my club die, I lost my mojo.
I used to do a lot of white water kayaking. One of my favorite sites was the upper Gauley River in West Virginia. My route took me over the New River Gorge Bridge, at one time the longest single-span bridge in the world. From the roadbed to the river below is 876 feet. On one of my trips I encountered a traffic jam about a mile before the bridge. We sat immobile for nearly an hour. Many of us got out of our vehicles to mingle and commiserate over our frustrations. It turned out that the tailback was caused by Federal marshals conducting a mass arrest of BASE jumpers who planned to unlawfully jump from the bridge. BASE jumpers use parachutes, which makes them a more intelligent human subspecies than bungee jumpers.
More things can go wrong in bungee jumping than in parachute jumping, though I rate BASE jumping only slightly less foolish than bungee jumping. Parachutes have been engineered for well over a century to be a life-saving technology, where bungee is just common synthetic cordage braided over neoprene elastic. The safety of a bungee jump ultimately depends on the cord itself -- whether its tensile strength exceeds the stresses and loads imposed and whether it's actual elastic coefficient conforms to the calculations made. Neoprene becomes degraded with age. Temperature and humidity can affect its elasticity. No matter what other preparations are made for safety, if the bungee stretches too much or not enough the jumper is going to die or be severely injured.
Agree. Driving IS the most dangerous thing. After 4 years of Soros Joe. Installed illegals - given drivers licenses-> these people are killing us on our roads. Thanks, democrats.
if you grab the rope, you may not be able to legitimately cop a feel. That's not me talking. I'm wearing my reptilian brain hat.
<<"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.">>
I qualified as a 5P Parachutist in the Army, and I had to perform a zipline during Ranger school. Lots of fun, and exhilarating.
While stationed in Germany, a dependent was seriously injured while bungie jumping in the late 1980s. I swore off that then. Horribly dangerous. We at least had a reserve chute in Airborne school.
ai says I'm full of it.
"Arousal and erections do not impair your overall cognitive abilities, intelligence, or "brain trust." While intense sexual excitement can briefly distract your focus or make it temporarily difficult to think about unrelated tasks, the physical state itself does not drain brainpower. Your brain may even receive increased oxygenated blood during sexual activity, and your mental performance is not directly diminished by becoming aroused."
Yes. (AI responses may include mistakes.)
One of my horses developed a maddening habit of breaking halters while being cross tied for grooming or shoeing. A trainer friend of mine thought he had the solution that would teach the animal to stop his halter-busting trick. He showed up one afternoon with a pair of what I could call giant rubber bands. These were loops of neoprene about 12 feet in circumference and about 1/2 inch in cross-sectional thickness. I don't know what to call them, but I was told they were used in conjunction with heavy earthmoving equipment. We substituted these rubber thingmajigs for the cross tie chains. Reef Casino (that was the gelding's Jockey Club name) began his tricks, but the elastic prevented his antics from breaking his halter. Then he began backing up, the elastic stretching accordingly. It got to the point that almost all of his half-ton of horseflesh was being supported by those two elastic bands, the neoprene stretching to less than half its relaxed thickness. Reef stood there, leaning against the elastic, looking like a ridiculous mule, for over 30 minutes. I wondered what calamity would follow if one of the bands snapped. But none did. The bands held and Reef gave up his futile struggle. He relaxed and stood quietly. Cross tying was never an issue after that. I never used chains or ropes for cross tying after that. I used bungee cord, instead, and I know from long experience that stuff has a limited reliable lifespan.
I had a farrier friend that was setting out to work on a mule, and he cross-tied him in a steel pole barn. It had been sturdily built, but the dang mule just about pulled the pole barn down.
Ann... I suspect they were all a snorten something and didn't notice shit...
I have noticed in my admittedly less existential interactions each day that people, especially young people, are not paying attention anymore. I ask for a third pound of sliced turkey and she gives me a half pound. I ask for a half sweet latte and it is full sweet. You ask the waitress to bring another glass of wine and the meal ends without its appearance.
bagoh20 said: I quit hang gliding after about 5 years of doing it regularly. I just got scared of it after a while.... After having a couple highly skilled friends in my club die, I lost my mojo.
I was a student pilot (small GA, think Cessna) many years ago. I soloed successfully and really enjoyed my time in it. But I didn't stick with it. While partly because of cost, every time I'd consider getting back into flying I'd read stories not just about habitually numbskull pilots, but too many cases in which the best of the best had one oversight and crashed and died. And I was merely competent. Wasn't worth the risk, for me.
The young lady didn't value her own life. She handed that duty off to strangers.
When I bungee jumped 25 years ago, I verified the knots and how close I'd get to the ground. No way that I'd be the first to jump.
My bungee had 5 or 6 cords about the size of that rope that is shown in the photo. The guy in back should have noticed that a cable bundle the size of your wrist, was not hanging in front of his face. The woman should have noticed that nobody hooked anything to her harness.
Imagine if when Dawn dies some rich person with no hobbies of her own speculated online about her, and her death, for pay/tips... are you really proud of your work here today?
A small uneducated man like meade does this... not a thinking woman of means. Be better. This is a real dead woman...like you dawn who made some godawful choices getting into a car that fateful day...
Pretty girl didn't deserve to die because the guys tossing her were distracted by her looks. That rope on the ground wasn't the bungee cord... it was around the third guys waist, the one at her feet who positioned her as the other two tossed...
Was dawn drunk or drugged when she got in the passenger seat that day or just boy crazy like her auntie... and dumb.
Who here remembers when ann was driving with her black friend back in the day, ran a red light and got hit?
Some women can't take and chew gum.
Those althouse gals make poor choices that get themselves and others killed. Always buckle up. Beware althouse women driving... no common sense.
" bagoh20 said..."I quit hang gliding after about 5 years of doing it regularly. I just got scared of it after a while."
I had a similar experience. I just was never comfortable.
I read about a cruise passenger who had signed up for a parasailing excursion at one of the Potts. On the paperwork she listed her weight as 200 lbs. The parasailing operator mildly suggested that she might be heavier than that, especially when the harness would not fit without extra extensions and received a Royal reaming out plus legal threats for his concerns. The harness slipped or broke or something and at her autopsy her weight was measured over 400 lbs.
If you do something often enough you can “see” something you expect to see but that isn’t there. That’s what seems to have happened to the sky diving cameraman who failed to check that he had a chute on.
I drive on Atlanta freeways. Far more death-defying. I don't need to seek it out elsewhere.
"While partly because of cost, every time I'd consider getting back into flying, I'd read stories not just about habitually numbskull pilots, but too many cases in which the best of the best had one oversight and crashed and died."
The Cessna 172 is generally easy to fly, which inspires confidence, yet that popular trainer is particularly dangerous when pilots try to correct an overshoot on the base-to-final turn.
Char Char Binks, Esq., nailed it, I think. Caroline, too.
Do they sell gift cards? I’d like to get one for my ex.
I don’t think it was even a bungee cord jump. They were using a length of rope that dissipated the energy of the fall by the swing of the tether not its elasticity.
Most businesses like to develop a Loyalty Program, aka repeat customers. Their business model needs a little tweaking.
Several years ago my wife and I went zip-lining on Catalina island. There were about 10 platforms in total. At each station the operators went through a thorough check of each connection AND safety connection prior to letting each participant take the leap.
Seems like a basic precaution.
“Humperdink said...
Things I’ll never do: sky dive, zip lining, bungee jumping, ride on traveling carnival rides (assemblers of these rides use crescent wrenches and hammers).”
Also, they have small hands and smell like cabbage
Wince has got it right. This wasn't a bungee, it was a pendulum jump. Which is probably why they threw her off -- you don't get enough horizontal velocity from jumping.
Big Mike,
Surprisingly don't just have a scale. Everybody gets on it, nobody gets singled out, and the operators get a very clear idea of how much people weigh *right now*, which is the only thing that matters.
Nice AP reference, RobinGoodfellow. Thanks for the laugh.
to Be Fair..
they TOLD her, that:
"It would be THE MOST EXCITING THING she would ever do..
in the rest of her life"
They TOLD her; "It will be like you're falling to your death!"
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