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Bungee
Jumping FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q1. After
you jump how do you get back on the bridge?
Q2. Is Bungee Jumping dangerous?
Q3. What are bungee cords made of made of?
Q4. How do you compete in bungee jumping?
Q5. What is it like to bungee jump?
Q6. Are you still scared when you jump?
Q7. What was the biggest bungee jump?
Q8. What is the history of Bungee Jumping?
 Q1.
After you jump how do you get back on the bridge?
A: Either a rope is dropped and you are pulled back up, usually by your
fellow jumpers through a pulley system, or you and the bungee cord are
lowered to the ground or a boat on the water.
Q2.
Is Bungee Jumping dangerous?
A: Statistically one bungee jump is about as dangerous as driving 100
miles in a car. (About a two in one million chance of death) There have
been millions of safe bungee jumps, and only a few accidents. Almost every
accident was caused by the jumper not being properly connected to the
cord or the cord not being properly connected to the jump platform.
Q3. What
are bungee cords made of made of?
A: Jump to our Bungee Equipment page.
Q4. How
do you compete in bungee jumping?
A: Acrobatic stunts are performed similar to springboard diving, except
you have the opportunity for tricks on the initial jump as well as your
first few rebounds. Up to 6 flips or more are possible for each trick.
You can also add twists, pogos, and more. See our Stunt
Jumping page.
Q5. What
is it like to bungee jump?
A: See 'Your First Jump' on our Bungee Expeditions
page.
Q6. Are
you still scared when you jump?
A: Oh Yeah! If I wasn't scared I wouldn't get that arenaline rush and
what fun would that be. All it takes is being away from jumping for even
a few days and the fear is back. Especialy at a new jump site. After one
jump however, I could jump all day and just enjoy the flight, even on
a 700 foot bridge. Fear is good. It keeps you from doing stupid things.
Courage is not the lack of fear, it's the conquering of it.
Q7. What
was the biggest bungee jump?
A1: Jochen Schwizer did a 3,320 foot jump from a helicopter on 9/19/97
in Frankfurt, Germany. He jumped on a 931 foot cord, with 1246 feet of
free-fall.
A2: David Kirke (from England's Oxford Dangerous Sports Club -the first
bungee jumpers) jumped from the 1,053 foot high Royal Gorge bridge on
a 420 foot long cord, accomplishing a 800 foot jump in Colorado, USA in
1980. In 2000 AJ Hackett did a 1004' jump from this bridge.
A3: The biggest mass jump was 25 people, on a 170 foot jump, at the Deutsche
Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany on 9/6/98.
A4: A.J. Hackett did a 590 foot jump from a building in Auckland, New
Zealand in October, 1998.
Q8. What
is the history of Bungee Jumping?
Indigenous people of
the Penecoste Islands in the South Pacific have jumped off of bamboo towers
with vines tied to their legs for thousands of years. England's Oxford
Dangerous Sports Club started the modern version of the sport on April
1, 1978 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. In 1988
the Kockleman Brothers in the US and A.J. Hackett in New Zealand started
commercial jumping for the public.
Please e-mail
us with any other questions you have. We need to know what you want to
know!
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