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The Thrilling World of Cliff Diving: Heights, Physics, and Records
TLDR Cliff diving involves jumping off extremely high cliffs into water, with divers reaching heights of around 148 feet. It gained popularity thanks to a Timex commercial and the ABC show "Wide World of Sports" and involves free fall physics, weightlessness, and scoring based on twists, somersaults, and entry into the water.
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The La Quebrada divers jump off the highest cliffs in the world, reaching heights of around 148 feet.
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Cliff diving involves jumping off of extremely high cliffs, such as a 14-story building, into water that may have boulders and waves, and timing the jump with the incoming and outgoing water.
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Cliff diving gained popularity thanks to a Timex commercial in the late fifties and the ABC show "Wide World of Sports" in 1968.
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Cliff diving involves free fall physics, where the acceleration is constant but the speed increases over time, and the height of the cliff determines the speed at which you travel before hitting the water.
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When cliff diving, there is minimal resistance from the air, causing the body to experience weightlessness and the internal organs to rise up in the chest, resulting in the feeling of the stomach coming up.
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Some well-known cliff diving locations include Rick's Cafe in Negril, Jamaica, the West End Cliffs in Negril, and Dubrovnik in Croatia, with divers in Acapulco performing flips and dives in midair.
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Cliff divers should swim around their landing zone to scare off fish, feel for rocks, and wear a wetsuit for cushioning, but most cliff divers wear a Speedo, like Orlando Duque, the nine-time world champ who holds the record for the perfect dive, and Dihuan Ran, who holds the world record for cliff diving off waterfalls into a vortex, while high divers, like Oliver Favre, jump into pools from great heights.
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Cliff divers are scored on the number of twists, somersaults, position during the somersaults, and entry into the water, similar to regular Olympic diving but at a higher level.
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