Nude Plunges Still Planned by Canada Bungee-Jumpers
A Canadian bungee-jumping company says it will go ahead with a planned day of nude diving in the woods despite threats of prosecution from police.
The company, which boasts North America’s only legal bungee-jumping site, said it would host free plunges from a Vancouver Island river bridge later this month.
But jumpmaster Kari MacIntyre said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had visited the company, Bungy Zone, and warned it that nude-jumping may violate Canadian law.
“They’re saying that, if we go ahead with it we could be arrested, as well as the jumpers. We are having our lawyers look into it,” MacIntyre said.
Bungee-jumpers dive from a platform with their ankles bound by a strap attached to a rubber cord that pulls them up just short of a fatal crash landing.
MacIntyre said that since Bungy Zone opened in 1990 it has had 20,000 customers who have each $80 to plunge from a specially built bridge 140 feet above the swirling Nanaimo River.
MacIntyre, 20, said she expects 50 to 100 people will strip for the nude dive Feb. 15.
“It’s the thrill,” she said.
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