An Australian tourist says she felt like she was "slapped all over" after her bungee jumping cord snapped and she plunged into the Zambezie River, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Erin Langworthy, 22, was forced to swim through the rapids with her feet still tied together after she fell from the Victoria Falls bridge, 111-metres above the water, on New Year's Eve.
"It went black straight away and I felt like I'd been slapped all over," Ms Langworthy told Nine News in an interview.
Ms Langworthy said luckily she had been white water rafting the previous day and remembered some of the safety tips to get through the rapids.
"The water was going quite quickly and then I started to hear the roaring," she said.
"It's like being in waves, you get sucked under and then you pop up so it's very disorienting, I didn’t know which was up or down."
The young tourist managed to swim to the Zimbabwe side of the river after seeing it was closest.
"It was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris," she said.
"I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface."
Ms Langworthy suffered a fractured collar bone as well as massive bruising in the accident.
Southern Province police commissioner Brenda Muntemba told the Post Zambia that Ms Langworthy was treated at Victoria Falls clinic in Zimbabwe before being evacuated to South Africa.
The jump was organised by a company called Safari Par Excellence.
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