A student who plunged to her death during a bungee jump with no cord in Brazil was still alive immediately after the fall, according to an off-duty nurse who rushed to save her.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, was filmed being hurled off an abandoned 130-foot bridge near Sao Paulo on Saturday after careless staff apparently failed to attach the rope in a horrific video shared on social media.

Nurse Rayza Dias was at the scene at the time, and tried to scramble to her crash site at the base of “Skeleton Bridge,” where Rodrigues de Freitas had been taking part in an unlicensed bungee jump.

A young woman takes a mirror selfie in a gym, wearing a black sports bra and shorts.
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas plunged to her death after she bungee jumped without a cord.Instagram / @dudz.rodrigues

Four people on a bridge preparing to push a fifth person over the edge for a rope jumping activity.
The moment Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas is lifted above the bridge for her jump without a cord.
“I scraped my whole hand because there’s a steep slope down there and only one rope for us to climb down,” Dias told Brazilian TV network Domingo Espetacular on Sunday.

“It was all covered in mud. I kept going down, down, we walked all the way,” she said, adding that Rodrigues de Freitas was alive when she reached her.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, who died after being thrown without a rope during a rope jumping activity in Limeira (SP) and falling 40 meters.
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas died after bungee jumping without a cord.Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas / Instagram
“I even talked to her. I have a habit of joking and saying, ‘Nobody dies on my shift.’ And I told her, ‘Duda [Eduarda], nobody dies on my shift.’ Even though I wasn’t on my shift there,” she said, becoming emotional.

Three of the bungee jump operators were arrested and charged with homicide on Sunday after two of them made a break for it following the death and had to be tracked down with a military helicopter.

Rayza Dias, in a black shirt, is being interviewed.
Nurse Rayza Dias said Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was still alive after her fall.Domingo Espetacular
A further three suspects who worked at the illegal site were detained but later released without charge.

SOURCE: https://nypost.com/2026/06/15/world-news/bungee-jumper-who-plunged-from-130-foot-bridge-without-a-cord-was-still-alive-when-she-was-found-nurse-reveals/