Bungee Jumping Accident At Victoria Falls: Australian Woman Erin Langworthy Plummets Into Water (VIDEO)

A New Year's Eve thrill-seeker had the shock of her life last week during a bungee jump at Victoria Falls bridge.

22-year-old Erin Langworthy leapt off the 111-meter bridge attached to a bungee cord, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, however she did not spring back up as planned.

Amazingly, her gut-churning fall was captured on tape on the video above. The harrowing moment after the cord snapped, sending Ms. Langworthy plummeting into the crocodile-infested waters of the Zambezi River, onlookers standing on the bridge could be heard gasping and swearing.

According to the Associated Press, Langworthy swam to the Zimbabwe bank. When she was pulled from the water, the young woman began coughing up water and blood.

Miraculously, Ms. Langworthy escaped with her life after spending a week in hospital in South Africa. According to ABC, she only suffered from bruises and a fractured collar bone.

Comments

[MissTake1989]

06:11 AM on 01/12/2012

Has it dawned on anyone that jumping off of high places with a rubber band tied to your leg is NOT a smart thing to do?

[DessieLindamood]

08:58 AM on 01/18/2012

If you want an adrenaline rush, sign up with Outward Bound in the US. The Sierra Club can tell you what to do to sign up. By the way, aren't the crocs and the alligators hibernating? They like rotted food so you will only feel it when they kill you.

[rewith85man]

10:42 PM on 01/11/2012

I am afraid of heights, swimming, and alligators/crocodiles.

Therefore, you won't see me doing the same thing that courageous woman did.

[wwoody]

04:47 PM on 01/10/2012

Lunchtime for Crocodile...maybe the next.

[rewith85man]

10:43 PM on 01/11/2012

Yeah, it would have to wait next time.

[wwoody]

07:54 AM on 01/12/2012

LOL...fan and favorite to you.

[ae12wrangell]

04:23 PM on 01/10/2012

Accident's do happen, hence the word "accident". 7 - 10 year's ago, Today Show's Ann Curry went skydiving. Her aim was Central Park. But a few gust's of wind blew her across the Hudson River to New Jersey, where she landed is somebody's backyard.

[Maxedaddy]

03:50 PM on 01/10/2012

All i have to say is "White People!"

[ckt617]

06:54 PM on 01/10/2012

Really. Do you really want people feeling that is socially acceptable to comment on the color of a person as it relates to certain story? It is not responsible and racist.

[Maxedaddy]

08:48 PM on 01/10/2012

I know and also funny!

[rewith85man]

10:44 PM on 01/11/2012

You are right about that. I would like to find out a black person or another minority doing bungee jumping.

[sanfran55]

08:35 AM on 01/10/2012

Why would you want to bungee jump over crocodile-invested waters? Adding to the thrill? I don't get it.

Glad this thrill junkie survived to tell the tale.

[Kevbo68]

07:23 AM on 01/10/2012

I think we've all learned a lesson here. She survived due to her attractiveness. I shudder to think of someone less photogenic suffering the same malfunction.

[sharlevoix]

11:23 AM on 01/10/2012

I noticed your Micro-bio is empty. No $h!t, so is your brain and heart! What a thoughtless remark.

[sakwyc]

08:09 PM on 01/10/2012

Oh, come now, he was being cheeky. I doubt he'd have made the remark had she been seriously hurt.

[Barterbabe30]

04:35 AM on 01/10/2012

I don't know why she was "shocked", you're jumping from a bridge with a rope tied to you...ropes break. Glad she's okay.

[triska]

04:32 AM on 01/10/2012

or, omg, she could have fallen into the mouth of a crocodile!! eeeeeek!!!!!! :-O

[oaoroho]

03:41 AM on 01/10/2012

WOW..... Screw that mess...

[usmaels1]

03:04 AM on 01/10/2012

There was a special half price the rest of the day.

[LovelySamsoon]

03:56 AM on 01/10/2012

lol. Thanks for that, laughing is good!

[petpetdonna]

02:53 AM on 01/10/2012

It is amazing this woman has lived to be 22.

[Steve68112]

01:53 AM on 01/10/2012

How was this an 'accident'? Didn't she jump on purpose? Therefore, it was actually a purpose, not an accident. A bad purpose, perhaps, but still a purpose.

[SoulOfDespair]

12:30 PM on 01/10/2012

If it was on purpose, I don't think she would have used a rope... Bungee jumping isn't just jumping of a base... the so called rope is suppose to "save" you from "falling" as it just dangles you in the air. I doubt that the rope snapping was on "purpose"

[bluntobject]

01:45 AM on 01/10/2012

And that, my friends, is why I will never do this! That could have very easily been fatal, or caused a spinal cord injury that would have left her paralyzed for life. Not smart.

[dylanlewis89]

01:38 AM on 01/10/2012

classic darwins theory. now if we could only tell people that standing infront of moving trains was 'da strate up cool ting ta doo yo!' or 'god says he'll stop it in time...' then we might get humanity back on track. lol..

[sharlevoix]

11:31 AM on 01/10/2012

............... "da strate up cool ting ta doo yo" sounds like Calypso from Pirates of The Caribbean.