Location: Macau Tower in Macau, China
Height: 764-foot tower, at 233 m aboveground, it is an astounding 41 meters higher than the only other Sky Jump in the world at Sky Tower Auckland.
A.J. Hackett broke his old world record for longest bungee jump. He is quoted to have said:
This jump has now set the benchmark for extreme activities, We had to develop a new system and bungy cords to make this happen,
The tower, opened in 2001 as a conference center, Hackett has launched this as the world’s highest commercial public bungee jump facility.
Hackett’s innovation the tapered (bungy) cord will allow him to take bungy jumping to more than 1km stretches.
The Bungee Jump will open to the public from 11.00am on December 20, 2006, where jumpers will reach speeds of 200km/h coming down to within 20 meters from the ground.
