I'm inclined to believe he survived but no doubt seriously injured. It would would be good to know this fellow's fate.Oceanrower said:Please bear in mind that the family of this person may well see this thread and that we don't know whether the person survived or not.
Some of the wild speculation earlier may well be very distressing for them.
traff said:Following on from my previous statement agreeing with rope rub on the bridge lower edge I too am not so sure.
I've ripped the video and extracted the event frame by frame. Whilst the quality isn't great I think this tells a different picture:
To me the rope fails at the decender, the blur at the bridge edge just being 'whip' as the load is taken off?
cooleycr said:However, the point that has already been made is that this is someone who may or not have survived and who's life may well have been drastically altered.
If he survived then we should send him all our best wishes, if he didn't then we should send our condolences to his family and friends.
Without hesitation.Pegasus said:Absolutely.cooleycr said:However, the point that has already been made is that this is someone who may or not have survived and who's life may well have been drastically altered.
If he survived then we should send him all our best wishes, if he didn't then we should send our condolences to his family and friends.
Simon Wilson said:We had some difficulty determining where the cord broke but that was purely academic. I was only interested because I found it hard to understand why it broke at the descender.
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I had wondered about that. I'm pretty sure there is still cord below him when he reaches the ground.Clive G said:However, the thought that occurs to me is that the apparent rope/cord failure at the descender could simply have been the end of the rope/cord running through the descender, with no knot tied into the end - presumably because the person abseiling thought that the rope/cord was long enough for the drop?