Watch: World first as diver jumps from West Cork's Dursey Island cable car

Orlando Duque, 51, a world-famous cliff diver, said the 24m dive from the cable car was unlike anything he had ever faced before

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This is the "Dursey Cable Car" (although I guess at a certain point "The Flying Dumpster" must also have been on the shortlist), the only cable car in Ireland. It connect Dursey Island with the mainland.

I guess the unusual design, where the cable car is hanging on two cables, has something to do with the windy conditions. This should stabilise it more, so it can run also in unfavourable weather.

#Ireland #CableCar #Dursey

The Cable Car to Dursey Island from 1969 was under mainenance from April 2022 to 1st of June 2023. Now the farmer, cows, sheep, their feeding and the tourist can get to the island again. Brought a guest there yesterday 😊

#Ireland #Beara #Dursey #CableCar # #photography #landscape #bay #nature

Don’t think anyone expected the work on the new cable car to be finished on time, because, are they ever?

Access failures for the residents were also feared & here we are: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41020514.html

Worth adding, Dursey Island is also the start / end of the 4700 km E8 Walking Route which passes through Ukraine.

We had good reason to acknowledge this then & now.
Context of people, time & place.

#Dursey #Island #E8WalkingRoute #Ukraine #CableCar #Hiking #Skelligs #Atlantic #History #Art

'Lights out for Dursey' as stalled cable car repairs force islanders to quit

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