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A bungee jump instructor has been found guilty of accidental homicide after a teenage Dutch girl misunderstood his “terrible English” and leapt to her death before the rope was attached was a secure point. Vera Mol, 17, was killed instantly in August 2015 after leaping off a bridge in northern Spain during an organized bungee jump. ... She was wearing the bungee harness but the cord was not yet secured when she jumped off the bridge over a gorge in Cabezon de la Sal in Cantabria. An appeal court in Cantabria heard that she had made the leap on hearing...

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An Aussie daredevil has somehow survived after a cord snap during her bungee jump over the Zambezi River – sending her plunging into the crocodile-infested waters. Erin Langworthy plummeted 111m from the Victoria Falls bridge, on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, on New Year’s Eve. The 22-year-old luckily survived the impact despite blacking out and was forced to swim through rapids populated with crocs – with her feet still tied. “It felt like I had been slapped all over,” the student told Australia's Channel 9 News. “I landed with my legs tied and then had to swim to the...

A British daredevil's vacation bungee jump went horribly wrong when his cord came loose and he hit the water at 80 miles an hour — but miraculously, he survived. Rishi Baveja, 21, told "FOX & Friends" Wednesday that he didn't even know the rope around his ankles had slipped off during his videotaped 165-foot leap in Thailand until the very end. "I didn't know anything was wrong until I hit the water," he said by phone from his home in the U.K.

Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.Leave it to the nation who contrived Russian Roulette to come up with rope jumping. It looks totally simple and straight forward, until you just think for a second about the physics involved. If you jump straight down, you could dislocate some important part of your body, or worse, you could snap the rope and keep on falling. The key is to jump so that you swing across the...

Italian sweethearts' fatal bungee jumpThe couple called to ask the centre to stay open An engaged couple have died after bungee-jumping together from a 100-metre (300-foot) high bridge spanning a river gorge in central Italy. They jumped off together in each other's arms and then this happened. It's terrible Lorenzo IlluminatiSite manager Alberto Galletti, a 25-year-old paratrooper, and Tiziana Accora, a 26-year-old student, were killed on Wednesday night near the town of Polino 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Rome, reports say. The manager of the jump centre, Lorenzo Illuminati, said the couple had called him just after closing time,...