Woman backed out of jump moments before student ‘went off without safety rope’
A terrified woman has been revealed to have refused to go on the doomed bungee jump before a Brazilian plunged to her death.
The São Paulo, Brazil incident saw a 21-year-old woman lose her life when she was thrown off a 131-foot drop without the rope attached to her in what was supposed to be a rope jump off the Ponte do Esqueleto, known as Skeleton Bridge, in the city of Limeira.
Per The Sun, Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas allegedly wasn't safely attached prior to two instructors carrying her off to the edge of the drop in what can only be described as a Superman-esque pose.
Just seconds after they threw her, video footage of the horror caught people in the background yelling: "The rope, people, the rope!"
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But the same outcome could have taken a different life that day.
Revealed by the jumping instructor identified as Gustavo, said he was putting the jumping equipment on one woman, but she was too scared to carry it through, according to TV Record.
“The girl got scared and gave up,” Gustavo said, which led him to move onto another customer.
According to him, that’s when a co-worker picked up Maria and threw her off the drop.
Sadly, she was not equipped, and the three instructors responsible for securing her with a rope have since been charged with her death.
Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, Vitor de Freitas Goncalves, 27, and Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, were placed under arrest as six people were brought into custody and questioned, per The Post.
As for what he heard, he said he didn’t think anything of it until it was too late.
“What I heard was, ‘Oh my God, the girl!'” Gustavo shared. “It’s normal for someone to scream when they jump, and for the people around to scream along.
“I heard screams, and when I turned around [to face the platform], it had already happened,” he added.
Sadly, Maria was found at the bottom of the gorge, with Nurse Rayza Dias telling Brazilian TV network Domingo Espetacular about what she witnessed.
"It was all covered in mud. I kept going down, down, we walked all the way," she said, claiming Maria was still alive at that time.
“I even talked to her. I have a habit of joking and saying, 'Nobody dies on my shift'," the nurse said. "And I told her, 'Duda [Eduarda], nobody dies on my shift'. Even though I wasn’t on my shift there."
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Britt Jones