OT: High Diving

[vav]

Just watched this new (to me at least) thing at the FINA World Championships in Budapest. VERY scary if you ask me. I have jumped off a regular 10 meter platform before and I can't imagine what it would be to jump off a 27 meter one..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEi2F-zZvjg

[Llewellyn]

Stuff that for a game of soldiers Terrifying.

[gasman]

Holy crap. I didn't even know they had a World Cup 27 m high dive competition.

I've jumped off a 10 m platform several times and dove once and it scared me. A lot.

I noticed they have guys in the water around the edge of the pool to make sure the competitors are okay. I wonder how often divers are knocked out.

[cachagua]

Is that a pool, or is that where somebody spit on the pavement? It looks TINY!

Really nice 10-meter diving tower at the Oaks Club in north Atlanta in the '70s. Used to go in the moonlight, you could see your shadow on the bottom of the pool but you couldn't see the water. Very interesting effect. But the real action was at the bluffs above a reservoir outside of town. (Huntcliff, anybody?) Heights were kinda nominal because the water lever went up and down 6 or 8 feet at least, but the place I used to jump from was in the neighborhood of what those guys were doing. There were places a lot higher I saw people jump from, but I was all the scared I wanted to be from that height.

However: those guys in Budapest are artistic. Guys I went with were just knee-walkin' drunk. I swear, I think that's the only way some of them escaped injury.

[ajhapps]

I was a NCAA D1 diver, and there is no f'ing way I'd do this. That is terrifying.

[Peter P.]

Whoa; massive audience...

[weisan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5uXL4w90yU

[Tickdoc]

That's a big NOPE for me. Tweaked my back once cliff diving off what was probably only 12 m and I've been a no go off anything greater than a springboard since.

[cachagua]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA, made a mistake! I mistranslated my meters last night, and that is emphatically NOT the height I used to jump from.

Twenty seven meters is eighty eight and a half feet. I was jumping from a little over sixty.