Moment tombstoner belly flops 200ft into the sea from Durdle Door before he’s pulled from the water ‘with a broken back’
- Two paddle boarders rescued another diver from seabed after he jumped
- Witness reports that people were cheering him on before he jumped into the sea
- Woman who saw incident said it was ‘disgusting’ to see people encouraging him
This is the shocking moment a tombstoner jumped from a 200ft rock into the sea and reportedly broke his back.
The footage emerged as another 20-year-old diver was seen belly-flopping from Durdle Door into shallow water and knocked himself unconscious.
Yasmin Allen, 23, was forced to give assistance to the second diver after he was dragged back to shore by paddle boarders.
A man is pictured leaping off Durdle Door yesterday despite the council closing the beauty spot
Paddle boarders had to rescue to tombstoner after he jumped from Durdle Door and did not resurface
Paddle boarders are pictured swimming to the man’s aid after he didn’t resurface yesterday
Mike Wiley and Dylan Kirkwood from Southampton saved the man from the seabed, The Sun reports.
Miss Allen and two other members of the public laid the jumper on the ground and had to perform CPR for more than five minutes.
A man is pictured jumping into the sea from Durdle Door yesterday as temperatures soared
A specialist first aider then came to the scene and paramedics along with the coastguard arrived minutes later.
Miss Allen said: ‘My sister Courtney and I were on the beach and saw it unfold. The lad jumped in and just didn’t come up.
‘Thankfully the two guys who’d been sat behind us had gone out on their paddle boards just in case something went wrong.
‘They did so well to get him up and pull him back to shore. He was not conscious so myself and two other people laid him out and started CPR.’
Pictured: A man jumps from Durdle Door yesterday ahead of lockdown restrictions easing
A man is pictured leaping into the sea from Durdle Door despite Dorset Council warning people not to do so
People are pictured descending onto Durdle Door yesterday despite the council warning people to stay away
An air ambulance then took the diver to hospital. Another man sustained spinal injuries and was sent to Southampton Hospital.
A third man is believed to have fractured his leg and was by ambulance to the hospital.
One witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said that he saw people jump into the water after the first man disappeared and didn’t resurface.
He said that hundreds of people swarmed the scene after the ‘biggest belly-flop’ he’d ever seen,
Ben Clark, who also witnessed the jump, recalled a defibrillator being used on the man.
Hayden Bradley said it was ‘disgusting’ to see so many people cheering the man on as he prepared to jump.