Frightening, and another good reason not to do one
A British tourist has cheated death after a bungee jumping accident in Thailand.
Rishi Baveja from Wakefield, West Yorkshire was on a month-long holiday in Phuket to celebrate gaining a degree in engineering when he decided to visit the Jungle Bundy centre in Kathu.
As he jumped off the 165ft high platform and fell towards the water beneath, his bungee rope came loose, plunging him into a lagoon at speeds of up to 80mph.
Mr Baveja escaped an almost certain fatal head injury by managing to take the full force of the impact on his chest.
Despite his quick thinking, he still suffered a ruptured spleen, collapsed lungs, a torn liver and severe bruising and spent over a month in hospital.
Surgeons have compared his injuries to those of a car crash victim.
“All the doctors were staggered that I lived,” he said.
‘I’m very lucky. If I had landed head first I would be brain damaged or dead.”
Video here:
Bungee jump terror: British student survives 165ft fall after accident in Thailand – mirror.co.uk
(sorry its the mirror :hopeless:)
