Johannesburg – A seriously injured army captain desperately called out, "Liefie! Liefie! Liefie!" to his wife, giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, after a cable swing jump near Graskop, Mpumalanga, went horribly wrong.
Captain Hendrik Samuels, 28, and his wife Jo-Ann, 25, were tied together in a harness for a tandem jump, and hung about 60m deep in the Panorama Kloof after having a serious fall and crashing into a rock.
Samuels's efforts to save his wife's life were in vain. He is with the 7 South African Infantry Battalion (7SAI) in Phalaborwa.
"What were shrieks of excitement initially, turned into a bloodcurdling cry of horror when they realised they were falling," a shocked woman, who did not want to reveal her name, told Beeld shortly after the incident.
SHOOT: Since it was a tandem jump I wonder if his wife didn't cushion the impact. I've parachuted out of planes but don't like the idea of a ground rush from the start, exactly because of what happened here. That said, driving your car is probably more dangerous.
Meanwhile what does the owner of the company have to say?
The owner of the Big Swing company that operated the cable swings, Mike van der Merwe, on Sunday denied that the equipment was defective.
"There was no fault in our system. We tested it. We're still waiting for the outcome of the investigation," he added.
Original story here.
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