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Fellowship bungee jump star traumas in Spain
The 17-year-old Dutch girl who was killed Monday night was just for a bungee jump in northern Spain surf camp. She fell during the preparations for the jump from 40 meters. The companions of the girl remain, according to the tour in Spain to deal with the trauma of what they experienced.
The girl was with a group of twenty other young people at a surf camp in the town of San Vicente de la Barquera organized by the Belgian travel Flow Track Travel. More than half of the group had registered for the bungee excursion, twenty kilometers away.
Filip Vandemaele, director of Flow Track, was this morning still inconclusive on the exact cause of the fatal fall of the girl, who comes from the Hague.
,, The police case is still under investigation, and the Dutch Foreign Ministry befriends the family. Now we are concerned with the care of all travel companions, who have decided to remain in Spain to process together with the trauma of what they have experienced, "said Vandemaele opposite the AD.
Too dangerous
The local authorities of Cabezon de la Sal, where the accident occurred, said the spot on the concrete arches under a flyover of the A-8 motorway, it is too dangerous to do 'Puenting "as it is called in Spain . ,, We were not aware that happened here, "said both the mayor and the local police chief. Nevertheless offer two agencies in the region for many years the bungee jump over the dry bed of the river Cedeja.
Preparations
According to first reports, the girl would not have died in the jump itself, but during its preparations. The participants at forty meters on the buttresses under the overpass before they take the plunge, to a string of about 20 meters long. ,, We pay such a tour out to the local organizations. It is not something new; The surf camps in San Vicente we have been organizing for the past ten years, "says Vandemaele.
Huge blow
The participants are between 16 and 30 years and enroll voluntarily for the excursions. ,, This is a huge blow to everyone, the family in the first place. Our priority now is permanently present at the group, which already has the support of psychologists in Spain. "
On YouTube you can see a video of the place where the bungee jumps are done in Cabezon de la Sal.
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