Zip Line in Roatan Fails

Given that Wendy and I have done the zip line in Roatan, this hit close to home. 

That’s because it was on that very same zip-line tour that a passenger cruising onboard NCL’s Norwegian Spirit lost her life last week, falling to her death when a faulty cable snapped. The March 18 accident sent Barbara Sue Fojtasek, 44, of Texas, along with a tour guide, plummeting more than 30 feet to the forest floor below. Fojtasek was rushed to a private clinic on Roatan before being transported to a hospital in San Pedro Sula, in mainland Honduras, where she died from her injuries.

The Gumbalimba Park tour guide was also treated for serious injuries, but survived and was released from the hospital on March 22.

Then again, we drive every day too and the news of car accidents rarely cause any consternation.  Still…