This depth excludes the rope stretch of 11.68 feet (3.56 m).

Where tightrope walkers use a rope stretched taut, slackliners walk on elastic webbing that sways and bounces.

The 'chain ferry' uses a wire rope stretched from one bank of the river to the other with a pulley attached which enables the boat to cross.

On a slightly different note, the phrase 'sleep tight' derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bed-frame.

She also saw a rope stretching from the beach into the ocean, as if to a sunken ship.