Ever wondered how many times a bungee cord can be used before it snaps? The answer, as an Australian tourist recently found out, turns out to be about 50 000 times. The tourism company that organized the jump, Safari Par Excellence, calls the jump “111 metres of pure adrenalin.”

22-year-old Erin Langworthy bungee jumped head-first from the Victoria Falls Bridge into the Zambezi River on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia on New Year’s Eve. The cord snapped in two and she fell into the crocodile-infested waters.

Erin Langworthy

Langworthy recalls the experience:

It went black straight away and I felt like I’d been slapped all over. My bungee cord was still attached to my feet and had gotten caught on debris. I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught into.

She then swam to Zimbabwe’s side of the Zambezi, where she met rescuers. She spent a week in a South African hospital with a broken collar bone and bruising, but escaped without any life-threatening injuries.

Here is a video of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbkAT3-ooo

[Source: Telegraph]