Veritasium Bungee Jumps!

In Queenstown, New Zealand, I jumped off the Kawarau Bridge - the site of the first bungy jump. It was a thrilling experience, preceded by a terrifying, gut-wrenching half hour wait. All in all an awesome adventure, even if the woman fitting my harness didn't know the first thing about the acceleration of free-falling bodies.

[@o0o0styx]

Derek: are you accelerating as you go down? her: nah. Derek: omg, im gonna die.

[@timhow]

'Hope you're better at harnesses than physics' savage

[@sutil5078]

One should not talk to her while she puts on the softy equipment or harness, it may distract her of doing the right procedure, CAREFUL

[@kayvee256]

I still remember my jump from that bridge. When you're actually standing there and looking down, 43m is a lot more frightening than it sounds.

[@veritasium]

apparently both spellings are acceptable... But a google search reveals a 3:1 preference for "bungee jump" over "bungy jump" but that's how they spelled it in NZ.

[@deThadeuz]

"hope you're better at harnesses than physics" LOL

[@alexanderjohnson2309]

Man I miss content like this. That must have been an exilerating experience.

[@MaidaA22589]

The slo-mo killed me xD xD xD Awesome job, fetus Derek!

[@theodoreadelarian5259]

LOL Derek without his beard

[@Dixavd]

I loved that womans jab at your science knowledge lol ironic

[@boogerisapain]

man i wish i knew you were over here back then because i would have tried to meet you in person because i find your videos an absolute inspiration just because of the content that you have in these videos is amazing!!! so thank you veritasium give me a heads up next time you are coming to the south island of New Zealand so i can have the chance of meeting you

[@syystomu]

Oh god... I wish I'd dare to do that but unfortunately there was just a story last year about a girl who died when the line snapped.... So I kinda went "yeah... never gonna try that after all..."

[@calunsagrenejr]

The guy who jumped feet first didn't look like he tried to jump feet first... he looked like he couldn't move his legs.

[@apexbender]

Don't beat yourself up... The world will do that for you everyday. You are braver than a bunch of people, and when I say a bunch, I mean millions of people that have never Bungee jumped. :-)

[@adamhari1]

Should have tried the Nevis 134m bungee around the corner. 6seconds of free fall! Plenty of time to feel the effects of gravity. And soooo much FUN!! :-)

[@ocdfreak]

I don't know if I'd trust a bungee harness attached by someone who doesn't know how gravity works

[@sutil5078]

YOU should not talk to her while she puts on the softy equipment or harness, it may distract her of doing the right procedure, CAREFUL

[@pebble312]

You wrote this so aggressively with those caps, chill 😂

[@stevenwhyte7835]

How do they get the jumper back? Do they just use a machine to pull him up?

[@hecker6218]

Actually the acceleration due to gravity is not 9.8 m/s everywhere...it changes we must use the formula of time period of pendulum to calculate it i.e.,T=2π√l/g.

[@penderyn5816]

I don't quite get this, kinda makes me feel stupid. Isn't Newtons first law: [..]" an object either remains at rest or continues to move at constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force." So why is he accelerating? There is the Gravitational-Pull draging him down, but shouldn'd there be a equal force in an equal magnitude but opposite direction? So i thought Gravitation was a balanced force. Or does this only apply when he is on the ground, since he has a higher potential energy when beeing high up, which leads to his acceleration?

[@EebstertheGreat]

Newton's third law states that for every "action" (force) there is an equal (in magnitude) and opposite (in direction) "reaction" (force). In this case, the force that the Earth exerts on Derek is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force that Derek exerts on the Earth. I'll say that again: Derek pulls the Earth up just as hard as the Earth pulls Derek down. Of course, the Earth is far more massive than Derek, so it hardly accelerates at all due to this force, whereas he accelerates quite a lot. Newton's third law certainly does _not_ state that the accelerations must be equal.

[@delicious619]

@phoenixdar If the bungie chord is tied to your feet when it starts to pull you back up you will whip around really fast from your head being up to being down and I imagine it would not be fun

[@ignaciocatalan6592]

aaand there's the wave again

[@tiagotiagot]

I dunno how expensive it is nor if it's actually a service you can just schedule and go or if you need to custom order everything; but i once saw this bungee jump using a huge length of bungee rope from a hot air balloon; i think doing it like that you might have enough time to think about your acceleration and stuff on your way down.

[@Superterminal]

First commercial Bungee Jumping not the first "modern" bungee jump. That was by the Dangerous Sports Club in 1979 in the UK off Clifton bridge.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

to be fair he said it is the spot where someone first jumped of that bridge.

[@OOchriOO]

haha derek is asking people about physics even when he's about to bungee jump

[@whoseontrial]

Hahaha! That was awesome, Derek!

[@BiggieShnouts]

Wow, at the end, it looked like the guy fell into the water when the camera went behind the railing. xD

[@nathanw8632]

nice bro love your vids

[@kevwills858]

Did they offer to let you touch the water ? or not ?

[@jampozbear]

There is the boat down there, I guess they slowly let you go and the boat will catch you just like a moving platform

[@ezekiel0920]

oh dez... you little girl.. hahah love your screaming.. should have done nevis wire.. its higher and longer!!! and u looked sooooooo scared just before you jumped.. hahahahahahahahahha

[@shananagans5]

It's not so much the fall that scares me as the outside force that stops the fall suddenly.

[@MrPeeepe]

How many g can you experience while bungy jumping?

[@radiculousraneem]

hey, where abouts is that in new zealand? coz i live there

[@FlumenSanctiViti]

What was the blood pressure in your head when you've reached the bottom? What scares me the most about bungee jumping is that all my blood vessels in my head would just burst from the pressure! :D

[@the1exnay]

@cristian silver i haven't done it myself but i think you would. well kind of. first of all you feel acceleration. you actually have an accelerometer in your inner ear. the force from the ground and the force from gravity normal nets zero acceleration but when in free fall you would feel the acceleration. you would not however feel your weight in normal terms. normally you feel your weight from the pressure it puts on your feet or butt depending on how you are resting. however when in free fall there is no part holding your body up.

[@dannes22]

Awesome!

[@kayvee256]

Oh: I swore at the top of my lungs the whole way down: FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK!

[@zoickn]

I did it on 27th Aug 2011. I'm gonna do Navis one day!

[@KristenApolinario]

Sydney Univer sity. What's up with the random space?

[@hazzledazzle95]

omigod funniest cheesy grin ever c:

[@ThanassisBoulis]

Ok, now our turn to poke fun at you :) ... The adrenaline has obviously affected your physics-skills. At 2:24 you are saying that you experienced a "very great increase in your rate of speed" or in other words an increase in your acceleration. I am sure some kind of spacetime anomaly changed the earth's gravity just for you :-P

[@Mriliketofu]

heyyyy 2:36 you can hear chewbacca roam around the forests of newzealand

[@AlanGaxGG]

I also sometimes do that wave when im nervous

[@phoenixdar]

whats wrong jumping with feet first?

[@phoenixdar]

@Xact163 thanks for the info! :)

[@TheJohnPersson]

oh that wave!

[@David-ld3ts]

I would be just like the lady in the green shirt.

[@lukassnakeman]

everybody should do this

[@twaterxcrunner]

Number 2!!!! i've always wanted to do that. lol

[@deday6525]

how much does it cost to bungee jump?

[@austindrapen8959]

200 dollars, which is about the same as a tandem skydive where I live.

[@jesuisravi]

They pay you, right?

[@dvddvd8719]

Made my day:) thx Sir!

[@dzloll]

AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Arghira]

you cant fell your weight while falling right? So right now I'm constantly accelerated but the earth's stopping me from going...

[@polatiger4765]

1:04 ~ Tried to teach her science.

[@ste_pure]

WOOOOOOOOOHAAAA

[@guardianpax]

Me too!

[@Smartix24]

1 person had an accident while doing bungy jumping

[@kdragonballz]

Awsome

[@Charlitoz97]

Marry me Derek.

[@princess435010]

Ive been to that bun jee jumping place!

[@MarkoMood]

Wow, you look a lot different here

[@Basomic]

Hope you're better at harnesses than physics hahahahah

[@egeusz]

oooo Offspring. These people are legit.

[@lolgalit]

Well I can tell u exactly how I would do it - i would have been very silent outside - but in my mind I would scream "WHEN THE HELL IT IS FINISHED ALLREADYYYYYY!!!!" hehe. This is my usual reaction when I am in amusmant park on the highest and scariest train there.... The question is if I am thinking like that why the hell I am keeping going there eh?

[@quiz0walkthroughs]

NEW ZEALAND!!!!:D

[@endocarp]

lol your braver than me...

[@dvl973]

isn't it a bunjee jumping?

[@alskdjf12]

HA i was just there 2 weeks ago!

[@Brodeagainstempire]

Offspring! :D 1:04

[@A.C.C.]

I did it too

[@NGC-7635]

...You know if you want to fly through the air on your own, there’s MUCH more enjoyable ways of doing it, lol. Paragliding for one.

[@TheBoredPhysicist]

@0:09 Major Derp face alert!

[@dvl973]

okay

[@pinesyeet]

43m... Really? We have one at 84 meters close to where I live, and it's amazing :D

[@louissiddell453]

Yes but this is the first ever bungee jump ever

[@muhammadfanriadho5337]

haha he is goblog 3:00

[@cameronclark9002]

zipper.

[@jonnies]

He did the pussy bungee jump. There's another place called the Nevis Bungee about 10 minutes drive from there which is about 3x higher.

[@TheMSwarriors]

if u were fat, would hit the lake?