Cliff Diving

Giving its more common cousin, ‘regular diving’, a truly dangerous twist is cliff diving, the new water-lover’s extreme sport of choice. It involves diving off a high cliff and requires absolute precision in terms of timing, placement and style so as to avoid killing oneself in the rock-filled waters below.

Cliff diving is an art form and exhibition sport in Mexico and Hawaii. Some divers will even attempt to hurl themselves into water only a few feet deep, and so have to time their jumps precisely with the crest of an oncoming wave to avoid getting killed!
 
 
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