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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by kkina:
The photographer who jumped without a chute died in 1988, long before AI.

Was it reported in 1988? Do we know that the (apparently) old content used in the video was about the incident it claimed to be?

The video was evidently produced two years ago and a lot has happened to make fake productions possible in that short time, so it was not the best example I could have cited.

YES this really happened ,in 1988,remember it well ,seen it in the news .we talked about it at work the next day with a guy who recreation parachutes on the weekend

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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The camera pans down showing the cord and it looks like they were using simple dynamic climbing rope which is NOT designed for repeated bungee-type jumps.

Would that give someone a very sharp jolt once they reach the end of the rope? In other words, no "bounce"?

Apparently it wasn't bungee jumping at all. It was "rope jumping"...

Fox News

^^^ From kkina's link, as I was wondering about that also.

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Rope jumping is an extreme sport that differs from traditional bungee jumping. Instead of elastic cords that create a vertical bounce, rope jumping uses low-stretch climbing ropes designed to transform a fall into a pendulum-like swing.

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Originally posted by Hobbs:
Wonder if it was some sort of impromptu social media thing?

I can't think of a legal or allowed enterprise set up on a bridge along a highway.

Never mind. Found out the "Skeleton Bridge" site of the incident is a disused railway.

Bungee jumping is, in my humble opinion, insane. That said jumping off a bridge using a climbing rope carries the insanity to a whole new level. It's going to hurt when the rope goes taut.

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jumping off a bridge using a climbing rope carries the insanity to a whole new level. It's going to hurt when the rope goes taut.

Two different things. The jumping is actually closer to swinging. You're not falling where the rope grabs you and stops you. The rope is at an angle, so as you fall down you start arcing into the swing as it gains tension.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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The camera pans down showing the cord and it looks like they were using simple dynamic climbing rope which is NOT designed for repeated bungee-type jumps.

Would that give someone a very sharp jolt once they reach the end of the rope? In other words, no "bounce"?

For what it's worth. All the climbing ropes I climbed with back in the day had some dynamic stretch. Some of the maniacs I climbed with. If it was time to retire a rope. They would actually "bungee jump" with it once. Before it went in the trash.

But those guys were a bit nuts. This was in all fairness 20+ years ago. But the climbing ropes were nothing like static ropes most people would use and / or buy at Home Depot or the like.

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Originally posted by kkina:

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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The camera pans down showing the cord and it looks like they were using simple dynamic climbing rope which is NOT designed for repeated bungee-type jumps.

Would that give someone a very sharp jolt once they reach the end of the rope? In other words, no "bounce"?

Apparently it wasn't bungee jumping at all. It was "rope jumping"...

Fox News

As suspected, idiots.
My guess is this was a low-cost operation where the operators had 'some climbing knowledge' but, figured they could monetize it by creating a 'bridge jumping' business, duping the unknowing into thinking this is bungee jumping. Bungee ropes for jumping have a LOT of built in shock absorption, made for repeated usage. Climbing ropes come in two flavors, dynamic used for climbing, the ropes have some built-in stretch to them allowing for a 'more gentle' fall however depending on the severity of the fall, that rope needs to be retired because there's no knowledge of its elasticity. Static ropes are the other kind of climbing ropes, those are used in rescue and high-angle work where there's constant loading on the rope and you want little to no stretching.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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jumping off a bridge using a climbing rope carries the insanity to a whole new level. It's going to hurt when the rope goes taut.

Two different things. The jumping is actually closer to swinging. You're not falling where the rope grabs you and stops you. The rope is at an angle, so as you fall down you start arcing into the swing as it gains tension.

Correct, the anchor needs to be away from the point where the jump is made so the pendulum swing takes up a lot of the shock once the weight of the person reaches the apex or end of the arc. Anchoring the rope to the location of where the person is jumping from is just crazy, not only will the jumper get whipped, the shock could result in injury (dislocations or worse), the rope undergoes massive shock resulting in damage or, failure or, the anchor fails because of the load shock. In this case, they just did away with the rope

In this instance the rope and anchor points were irrelevant because neither of them were being used.

That was murder.

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Originally posted by SPWAMike0317:
Bungee jumping is, in my humble opinion, insane.

Maybe so. I didn't think so every time I did it. But people have said the same thing about me riding motorcycles. Heck, I flew Harriers so I probably do have some underlying insanity tendency.