Interesting facts about the Golden Gate Bridge
If you have ever watched an American movie, you will almost certainly have seen this bridge. Or maybe you are lucky enough to visit it? Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco to the north of the San Francisco Peninsula and southern Marin County, near the suburb of Sausalito, - one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge was started in 1933 and it was inaugurated in 1937. He has long held the record as the longest bridge in the world until it was surpassed in 1964.
However, this bridge has earned a notorious suicide favorite place. For more than seven decades of the bridge according to unofficial data, more than 1,200 people to commit suicide by jumping into the water with him (the official tally was discontinued in 1995, when the number of suicides exceeded 1000). 1995 turned out to be some kind of a record 45 suicides - more than in any previous three years since opening. In 2006, 34 were found suicide jumped off a bridge. In addition, four suicide seen, but bodies were not found. "Record" number of suicides within one month, occurred in August 2013 - 10 cases.
Sometimes rescuers manage to prevent suicide. California Patrol takes a year from the bridge an average of 70 potential suicides. In addition, some already manages to pull out of the water, but their condition is pitiable. The fact that the fall from the bridge is 4 seconds and the body has time to get up to speed 142 km / h, which is deadly. Most survivors die from internal injuries or supercooling because the water in the river falls to +8 degrees Celsius.
As of 2006, all springing from the bridge with only 26 people survived. They managed to stay alive, as they enter the water feet first. But still suffered multiple internal injuries and broken bones. However, there are unique cases where suicide themselves save their lives. In 1979, for example, the young man jumped off a bridge, but it suddenly woke up craving for life, and he swam to shore and even he came to the hospital. Collision with the water surface it cracked several vertebrae, but life was saved. In 1985, a bridge leaped 16-year-old, but once with cold water, he also changed his mind and somehow swam to shore on their own. They say the first words that he said, out of the water, were: "I can not do anything, as it should." There were also more sombre occasions. Girl from California jumped from the bridge twice. The first time, in 1988, she was rescued, hospitalized. But, after the trauma, she tried again, and this time her jump ended in death.
In April 2011, another teenage girl decided to make a fatal jump from a height of 61 meters. She had been in the icy water for 20 minutes, was rescued and admitted to a nearby hospital.
Since 2000, discussed various methods of reducing the number of suicides. It was suggested several ideas, including closing the passage for pedestrians at night. On the other hand, nothing prevents suicide arrive by car. Another suggestion - electronic gates, tracking routes. Finally, a proposal was made to erect an anti-suicide fencing.
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