A bungee jumper took the plunge using a rope made out of condoms – which luckily worked without splitting or snapping.

Veteran jumper Carl Dionisio said he created the unusual 30-metre rope to recreate “the virgin buzz” of his very first bungee.

But he admitted that he was in a state of panic leading up to the jump, fearing the latex rope might let him down.


Portuguese-born Carl carried out the jump in his adopted home city of Durban in South Africa, 15 years after his first bungee.

He said he and friend Michael “Sniper” Xaba soent four months making the rope out of 18,500 condoms.



Carl, 37, said: “It was difficult as the condoms are slippery. When we tied knots they would just slip out.

“Latex is latex. But the cord was based on a mathematical formula and although I was 99 per cent sure that it would work, my stomach was in a knot for a month before the jump.”