Italy - The Bridge Drop

Good spot for a drop

Just 5 minutes walk down the Cinque Terra from Monterosso al Mare I met some American guys hanging out by a bridge discussing whether it could be jumped. They had met some travellers a week before who had shown video footage of them jumping it. It was a pretty big drop and there was no way I was going to attempt it without checking out the landing first. So we climbed down the cliff and dived at the landing spot, it was about 4m deep so good enough for a flat footed jump.

Bombs Away The American guys were keen to jump first which was fine by me.. I stood by the landing and shot footage as they jumped. Then it was my turn, it was pretty freaky standing on the top rail of the bridge even after seeing the other two go first.

Walking on water, my jesus photo
Its hard to see on here but if you zoom in you can see this was a perfectly timed photo. You can see a tiny start of the splash just as my sandals touched the water. I decided to wear sandals as I wanted land with flat feet instead of pointed so I did not go too deep. The bad side of that is it would be a hell of a slapping to the feet without the sandals.

Heavy Impact The impact was heavy but the sandals worked well. I can't remember much from here other than it took a while to get back up to the surface. One of the American guys dived at the time of impact next to the landing site to see how deep we went, he said about 3m so we still had a meter to go..

What a ride!

It was a good adrenaline rush and it had to be done again.. and again.. By counting the frames in the camera I calculated the drop height at around 11m.