00:00The Rope. On the 13th of June, 2026, Maria Eduarda Rodríguez de Freitas, a 21-year-old Brazilian university student,
00:09paid for a guided extreme sports outing at the abandoned Ponte do Esqueleto, the Skeleton Bridge, near La Mera in
00:16Sao Paulo State.
00:17Before her jump, she posted a joke on Instagram.
00:20Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?
00:23The viral video shows three instructors lifting her over their heads at the edge for what they called an airplane
00:29-style launch.
00:30She had the helmet on. There were ropes on the bridge. None of them were clipped to her harness.
00:36Two of the men threw her out into open air, completely unattached, off a structure about 130 feet high.
00:43As she fell, someone filming screams,
00:46Guys, the rope!
00:48Pointing at a line still sitting on the bridge.
00:50An off-duty nurse reached her and said she was conscious before she died at the scene.
00:55The operation was unlicensed.
00:58Three instructors, ages 32, 27, and 42, were arrested in flagrante while trying to flee, and charged with homicide with
01:06eventual intent.
01:07They told police they couldn't remember who was supposed to check her gear.
01:11The last rider.
01:12The 10th of October, 2022.
01:15Canoa Cabrata Beach, in Aracate, in Brazil's Sierra State.
01:19Sergio Murillo Lima de Santana, a 39-year-old tourist from Belém,
01:25had been on holiday with his partner for about six days when they tried a beach zipline that glides over
01:31the dunes.
01:31It was a windy afternoon, and Sergio filmed another tourist, a woman, completing the run with no trouble at all.
01:39Then he took his turn, phone out, recording himself.
01:43He was gliding along the cable, harnessed in, doing nothing wrong when the support structure holding the line gave way.
01:50The pole tipped.
01:51The cable lost its tension, and Sergio plummeted onto the sand dunes below.
01:56He didn't jump or let go.
01:58The whole thing collapsed under him.
02:00Emergency workers rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
02:04The chilling part is that he captured his own final seconds.
02:08The command.
02:09In early July 2021, on a Sunday, 25-year-old Colombian lawyer Yesenia Alejandra Morales-Gomez
02:17went bungee jumping for the first time with her boyfriend at a viaduct near Amagá.
02:22In the municipality of Fredonia, Antiochia, run by an operator called Sky Bungee Jumping Amagá,
02:29they'd put a harness on her.
02:31But the elastic cord, the actual thing that stops you, hadn't been attached yet.
02:36Her boyfriend, standing nearby, already had his full safety system on.
02:42According to the mayor of Fredonia, an instructor shouted the jump signal meant for the boyfriend.
02:48Yesenia, confused and rushed, thought it was for her.
02:51So she stepped off, harness on, no cord connected to anything.
02:56She fell about 150 feet, head first.
02:59Her boyfriend climbed down and tried CPR.
03:02Medical reports say she went into cardiac arrest during the fall, her heart stopping before impact.
03:08The second jump.
03:09The 21st of July, 2015.
03:12The Tablate Bridge, near Longerone, outside Granada, in southern Spain.
03:17Cleo de Abreu was a 23-year-old British woman.
03:20A London fashion student visiting family in Spain, who'd booked a bungee jump with a licensed adventure sports company.
03:26And she'd already done it once.
03:28Her first jump that day went fine.
03:30On the next attempt, the supervisor attached her harness, then turned away to deal with other participants.
03:37The investigation found a miscommunication.
03:40Cleo jumped before she was told to, before the equipment had been made safe.
03:44With the setup incomplete, she didn't get the controlled rebound.
03:49She collided with the wall of a smaller, ancient bridge sitting directly beneath the one she'd jumped from,
03:54and reports say she died instantly.
03:57The Guardia Civil charged two men with manslaughter, the owner of the adventure company and the jump supervisor.
04:04Investigators concluded the supervisor had not carried out his function with due care.
04:09On the 15th of October, 2023, Dan Owen, a 47-year-old American and director of an international school in
04:18Haiphong, Vietnam,
04:19was on vacation in Laos with his 15-year-old son, Cooper.
04:23They went to Green Jungle Park, a zipline attraction near Luang Prabang, and rode the course with a guide.
04:29The hardware worked perfectly.
04:31Apparently, that's not what got them.
04:33As father and son were descending from a tree at the end of the zipline, they were swarmed, a source
04:38close to U.S.
04:39Diplomats described hundreds of what looked like Asian giant hornets, though the exact species was never confirmed.
04:46Both were stung more than 100 times across their bodies, which were covered in red spots.
04:52They were rushed to a local clinic, then to Luang Prabang Provincial Hospital, already in critical condition.
04:58Cooper was unconscious on arrival and died about half an hour later.
05:03Dan arrived conscious and died roughly three hours after that.
05:07The doctor said both suffered severe anaphylactic shock.
05:11The park called it an unforeseeable, extraordinary natural occurrence.
05:16Three on the line.
05:17Around 10.30 a.m. on the 19th of November, 2019,
05:22a 48-year-old South Korean tourist was ziplining in Vang Vang, Laos,
05:27the country's notorious adventure tourism town.
05:31He'd flown in that Sunday with two colleagues from a company in Busan,
05:34and they'd booked the zipline tour through a local agency.
05:38The three of them went out on the line one after another,
05:41the man bringing up the rear behind his two co-workers.
05:44The cable on this commercial zipline was held up, in part, by a tree about 23 feet high.
05:51That tree collapsed.
05:52As it fell, the line slackened suddenly.
05:55The two colleagues ahead got off with scratches and bruises on their legs and backs.
06:00But the 48-year-old fell from the line and was killed.
06:04His name was never released in English-language reporting.
06:07Local officials launched an investigation into possible negligence
06:11and announced safety checks on all eight zipline attractions in the town.
06:15The Korean embassy sent a consul and asked police for a thorough inquiry,
06:19and the man's family flew in the next day to bring his body home.
06:22The Superman Leg
06:24The 13th of April, 2019
06:27The flight of the Gibbon Canopy Zipline near Mei Kampong in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
06:34Spencer Charles Donaldson, a 25-year-old Canadian from Fruitvale, British Columbia,
06:39was riding the course with his girlfriend.
06:42The company said he'd completed orientation and was within the 275-pound weight limit.
06:48Shortly after he was released from the start of the line, the cable failed, and he fell.
06:54His family says it happened on the Superman leg,
06:56and they blame an improperly assembled cable and the absence of a backup safety line,
07:02meaning one failure left nothing holding him.
07:04The company's own preliminary investigation pointed to a metallurgic failure on a swing.
07:10Reports on the fall distance conflict wildly, from 39 feet to about 330 feet into a creek below.
07:17This wasn't the operator's first incident.
07:19In 2016, three Israeli tourists were hurt in a mid-air collision,
07:24and earlier still, two women crashed and were hospitalized.
07:28The operator reportedly accepted full responsibility, not for lifting.
07:32On the 22nd of October, 2019, Dean Anson Sanderson,
07:37a 50-year-old Australian father of three from Adelaide,
07:40was on a bucket-less trip through far north Queensland with his wife Shannon.
07:45They booked jungle surfing canopy tours, a zip line through the Daintree rainforest,
07:50and were sent down one line together, in tandem, between two platforms.
07:55Partway across, the line lost momentum, and then it gave way.
07:59Witnesses said it snapped.
08:01Both of them fell up to 82 feet to the forest floor.
08:05Shannon survived with serious injuries.
08:08Dean did not.
08:09He died of blunt force trauma from the fall.
08:12The coronial inquest uncovered the detail that defines this case.
08:16New wire rope grips had been installed on the course,
08:19and the invoice for them carried a warning that they were not for lifting.
08:23The operations manager admitted he hadn't seen that warning,
08:28and that he was unaware of the legal requirement for annual engineer inspections.
08:33Her harness.
08:34The 30th of October, 2021.
08:37The La Jolla Zip Zoom zip line on the La Jolla Indian Reservation
08:41near Palma Valley in San Diego County, California.
08:45Joaquin Romero was a 34-year-old employee,
08:48working the platform that day, clipping riders onto the line.
08:51The course had a weight limit of 250 pounds,
08:55and Romero reportedly feared what would happen if too much weight hit the system at once.
09:00He was helping a woman get clipped in when she started sliding out onto the line
09:05before she was fully secured.
09:06Romero grabbed her harness to stop her,
09:09and that pulled both of them off the platform and out over the drop,
09:12about 70 feet above the ground.
09:15Because he believed they would both fall due to their combined weight,
09:18Romero let go of the harness and sacrificed himself for the woman's safety.
09:22The woman stayed on the line and was uninjured.
09:25Cal Fire crews found him with major trauma,
09:27raised him with a low-angle rope rescue system,
09:30and airlifted him out.
09:31But he died on November 1.
09:33His cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries.
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