Sydney (dpa) – An Australian backpacker is lucky to be alive after her bungee cord snapped when she jumped from a bridge to the Zambezi River 111 metres below, in southern Africa, news reports said Monday. Erin Langworthy told Australia's Channel 9 that her feet were still tied when she hit the water, the trailing rope snagging on rocks and dragging her under. “It was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris,” the 22-year-old Perth resident said. “I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.” She told the television station that the rope snapped around 20 metres above the water and that she used her hands and arms to break her fall. CNN has been running video of her jump including the point when the rope breaks. “When I was first pulled out of the water, they put me on my back and so all the water that I'd inhaled meant that I couldn't breathe so I made them roll me on to my side and that's when I started coughing out water and blood,” she said. Langworthy has recovered from her New Year's Eve adventure at the Victoria Falls bridge on the border Zambia shares with Zimbabwe – and with an amazing story of survival to tell. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/eqGfc Tags: Australia, Bungee, Zambia Section: Oceana, Travel
