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Shallow Diving
Shallow diving is an extreme sport, whereby enthusiasts attempt to dive from the greatest height into the shallowest depth of water, without sustaining injury. It is typically associated with travelling circuses along with the strongman, performing animals, clowns and other such attractions.
Technique
Divers aim to hit the water horizontally in a manner akin to the Belly flop. This spreads the impact over the greatest surface area, and achieves the fastest deceleration.
World record
Professor Splash (ne. Darren Taylor) successfully dove from 36.6 feet (11.15 m) into a paddling pool of depth 1 foot (30 cm).
Roy Fransen successfully dove from 110 feet (33.5 m) into 8 feet (2.4 m) of water.
World's Highest Shallow Dive - Guinness World Records 60th Anniversary
Professor Splash: Performer Attempts High-Diving Christmas Stunt - America's Got Talent 2016
How Shallow Diving Works
Every swimming pool has that slightly ominous warning sign: "No Diving in Shallow End." The reasons are obvious to most people — too much velocity and too little water equal a broken neck. It seems a little nutty, then, to think that a few humans make a livelihood diving from as high as possible into what basically amounts to a puddle of water. They're called shallow divers, and they are masters of their own fears, and physics, too.
Shallow divers are essentially professional belly floppers. It is — literally and figuratively — a gut-wrenching way to pay the mortgage.
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