{"id":1890,"date":"2010-08-11T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2010-08-11T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:42:44","slug":"diving-off-the-bridge-to-nowhere-august-8-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"Diving Off The Bridge To Nowhere – August 8, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m sitting in a local Long Beach ghetto tavern, staying away from Psycho Chick by getting drunk with my bar friends, when I came up with a wonderful idea.<\/p>\n

Let’s get out of this dive, and do something fun!<\/p>\n

Free diving?<\/p>\n

Not many people were interested – maybe three people.<\/p>\n

Something a little more extreme?<\/p>\n

Why don’t we go for a nice day of bungee jumping?<\/p>\n

Worst case scenario, I wouldn’t have to worry about going home and sleeping in the same apartment as Psycho Chick.<\/p>\n

I had 16 people going, with a month’s notice, but the closer to the trip it got, the more people backed out – five jumpers ended up going.<\/p>\n

The best back out excuse that I heard was “The free fall is only 100 feet? Man, I’m not going just for that.”<\/p>\n

The second best was, “My eye hurts, so I can’t go.”<\/p>\n

The videos show the exciting day…<\/p>\n

Bungee Jumping the Bridge to Nowhere Preview <\/strong><\/p>\n

A very good video by Professional Debriefer Paul showing the hike up to the Bridge To Nowhere and the initial jumps of the day.<\/p>\n

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View this video on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff and James Bungee Jumping The Bridge To Nowhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s my three jumps, and my friend James’ single jump; my feet actually hit a tree at 5:47 into the video.<\/p>\n

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View this video on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n

My video of the entire day, condensed down to about 10 minutes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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View this video on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n

How did this bridge get there?<\/p>\n

The Bridge To Nowhere<\/a> was part of a road project, but a flood in 1938 washed the road away and the project was abandoned.<\/p>\n

Want to go Bungee jumping?<\/p>\n

Bungee America<\/a> is the company that provides the bungee jumps at The Bridge To Nowhere.<\/p>\n

I went with Bungee America when the founder, Ron Jones, was just starting to jump at the bridge in 1992; 18 years later, a lot of improvements have been made to the operation and they have kept a perfect safety record.<\/p>\n

That makes Bungee America safer than Disneyland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m sitting in a local Long Beach ghetto tavern, staying away from Psycho Chick by getting drunk with my bar friends, when I came up with a wonderful idea. Let’s get out of this dive, and do something fun! Free diving? Not many people were interested – maybe three people. Something a little more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}