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Hanging Rock rope swing accident 3-Feb-2015 At 9:23:24 PM kieranl

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Incredibly lucky that he wasn't killed.Even unconscious on the rope and things could have gone very bad.

There's been some criticism of their lack of rescue plan but I wonder how many people do that swing or the jump with a rescue plan ready to go. Does anyone know what's normal there?

Given the method of injury the rescue technique is particularly odd. The method of injury screams potential spinal injury - as it turned out luckily the only part of his spine affected was his coccyx. But you certainly couldn't tell. He shouldn't have been contributing to his rescue by jumaring. Ideally he shouldn't have been moved without a stretcher but leaving him hanging immobile on the rope isn't really an option. But with the number of people and amount of gear there I would have thought a haul would have been the option.