The boxes purportedly recorded 17 jumps in three months, far greater than the official count. Įngineering professor Natalie Jeremijenko, as part of her "Bureau of Inverse Technology" art collective, created a "Despondency Index" by correlating the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the number of jumpers detected by "Suicide Boxes" containing motion-detecting cameras, which she claimed to have set up under the bridge.
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The impact cracked several of his vertebrae. One young man survived a jump in 1979, swam to shore, and drove himself to a hospital. One young woman, Sarah Rutledge Birnbaum, survived, but returned to jump again and died the second time. Those who do survive strike the water feet-first and at a slight angle, although individuals may still sustain broken bones or internal injuries. As of July 2013, only 34 people are known to have survived the jump. The fatality rate of jumping is roughly 98%. Currents beneath the bridge are strong and some jumpers have more than likely been washed out to sea without being seen. People have been known to travel to San Francisco specifically to jump off the bridge, and may take a bus or cab to the site police sometimes find abandoned rental cars in the parking lot.
There is no accurate figure on the number of suicides or completed jumps since 1937, because many were not witnessed. The California Highway Patrol removed 70 apparently suicidal people from the bridge that year. There were 34 bridge-jump suicides in 2006 whose bodies were recovered, in addition to four jumps that were witnessed but whose bodies were never recovered, and several bodies recovered suspected to be from bridge jumps. įor comparison, the Aokigahara Forest in Japan, has a record of 108 bodies, found within the forest in 2004, with an average of 30 a year. The youngest known jumper is five-year-old Marilyn DeMont in 1945, she was told to jump by her father who followed her. The rate of incidence of attempts has risen to nearly one every other day. The total count for the year 2013 was 46, with an additional 118 attempts prevented, making it the year with the highest tally so far. The most suicides in one month were in August 2013, when 10 jumped. By 2012 the unofficial count exceeded 1,600 (in which the body was recovered or someone saw the jump) and new suicides were occurring about once every two weeks, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis. Consequently, Marin County coroner Ken Holmes asked local media to stop reporting the total number of jumpers. The official count ended on Jon the 997th jump jumper No.
Īn official suicide count was kept until the year 1995, sorted according to which of the bridge's 128 lamp posts the jumper was nearest when he or she jumped. Most suicidal jumps from the bridge have occurred on the side facing the bay. About 5% of the jumpers survive the initial impact but generally drown or die of hypothermia in the cold water.
Most of the jumpers die due to impact trauma. After a fall of four seconds, jumpers hit the water at around 75 mph (120 km/h). The deck of the bridge is about 245 feet (75 m) above the water. Official count of the jumpers ended in 1995, with a total of 997 jumpers.
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