suspended jaccuzzi, Gueuroz bridge

January 20, 2015 6:44 PM

The length of the cables was absolutely critical, because the water does not forgive the slightest error, as it always flows to the lowest point, increasing the error and making the system unstable. The next challenge was to find a way to make the rappelling (abseiling) and climbing up the rope as easy as possible and absolutely safe, with at all moments two independent safety lines, well protected from the friction on the concrete bridge.
posted by jenkinsEar (22 comments total)

Many other unusual Jaccuzzi locations are documented here.
posted by jenkinsEar at 6:47 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

Seems like it would be difficult to have that many people squeezed in together with all the necessary screaming that would be happening.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 6:52 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

I thought jaccuzzis were supposed to be relaxing.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:09 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

Just looking at the pictures is giving me heart palpitations.
posted by xingcat at 7:15 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

Hmm, going by jenkinsEar's link, it appears that they decided they couldn't top the bridge and closed up shop.
posted by tavella at 7:18 PM on January 20, 2015

Either that or their next jacuzzi engineering project did not go so well. But I feel I would have heard about mass jacuzzi death.
posted by tavella at 7:22 PM on January 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

Once again European swingers over-complicate simple things.
posted by srboisvert at 7:32 PM on January 20, 2015 [3 favorites]

Many other unusual Jaccuzzi locations are documented here.
(and here).
posted by pompomtom at 7:41 PM on January 20, 2015

I love the way at the end of the day, at 6:00pm, they just packed it all up and went to Jan's house for food and drinks. As if another day hiking in the park.
posted by 724A at 7:50 PM on January 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

I hear their next exploit will be hanging one from the ISS.
posted by localroger at 8:15 PM on January 20, 2015

More than the height, the idea of sharing bathwater with so many people gives me the willies.
posted by bonobothegreat at 8:36 PM on January 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

I have an idea for Hot Tub Time Machine 7...
posted by SpacemanStix at 8:38 PM on January 20, 2015

I think I prefer the giant spider web, hundreds of feet off a canyon floor, that these crazies strung together out in Moab: the Space Net. Note the more laissez-faire attitude to tying in and hard hats. These kids believe in the power of the Space Net.
posted by Flashman at 8:40 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

oh HELL no.
posted by lonefrontranger at 8:43 PM on January 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

what is wrong with you people
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:44 PM on January 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

This one. I don't even know what could be happening there that everyone is smiling.

"Bob, jump through the hole."

"Okay."
posted by SpacemanStix at 8:51 PM on January 20, 2015 [3 favorites]

...there are people in the world for which neither base jumping or slacklining 400 feet up are enough of a thrill. No, they have to walk a line out to the middle of the canyon and *then* jump from it.

I know this must have evolutionary usefulness or we wouldn't have them still, but goddamn...
posted by tavella at 9:02 PM on January 20, 2015 [4 favorites]

Base jumping, of course. I should have read the entire article before I started getting freaked out by the pictures.
posted by SpacemanStix at 9:14 PM on January 20, 2015

I love the way they all kept their helmets on in the tub. "Safety first, people!"
posted by Mogur at 4:01 AM on January 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

I appreciate that people have interests divergent from my own, but cake in a jacuzzi? What kind of barbarians are these people?
posted by Literaryhero at 4:51 AM on January 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Also, what kind of life skills allow a person to successfully hang a jacuzzi from a bridge and yet that monstrosity of a cake is the best they can come up with?
posted by Literaryhero at 4:54 AM on January 21, 2015

Maybe it's just the aesthetics of it, but the moab spider web thing looks great to me; I could imagine an afternoon lazing around on it reading a book as if it was a giant hammock. But squishing into a jurry-rigged tub under a bridge with fourteen other people? I'm missing the appeal of that one.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:18 AM on January 21, 2015 [1 favorite]