Ray Woodcock, a 73-year-old great-grandfather, soared to new heights and achieved a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Woodcock set a new bungee jumping record for the highest jump with a full body submersion into water with a leap from 465 ft.
"The jump was absolutely incredible. A little bit harder than I thought it would be — the height was unbelievable, I looked at it from the ground and thought, 'Wow no one's going to jump off that,'" Woodcock said in the video.
"As I was going up in the crane, everything looks totally different. When you're standing next to that open doorway and you've got someone bigger than you ready to shove you out, you have to just go with it. When I was falling, I was saying in my mind, 'Please let it be a world record,' " he added.
In the video, a 500-foot crane lifts the man up into the air at Chepstow Quarry in the United Kingdom. His incredible free fall was all filmed using EE's new 4GEE Action Cam, which was streamed live over 4G to his family in Essex.
Woodcock's leap is currently being reviewed by Guinness World Records.
Despite his age, Woodcock has no plans of slowing down. In fact, he may try to break his own records in the future.
"Today has been the dream for the last three years. I've lived every day for today, imagined it, gone through it, and now I've achieved it. It feels fantastic, I'm still riding on a cloud — or a bungee! At 73, there's lots of things you can't do, but the world record for the oldest jumper is over 100, so at my age I'm a spring chicken. A lot of people at my age, they've given up – but you've never too old to achieve new things," he said.
Watch his death-defying leap in the video below.
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