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The highest dive attempted to date I believe is 174 feet.

Anything over 150 feet into water (still, calm, quiet water) is potentially fatal depending on how you hit the water.

Should you jump off the golden gate bridge (roughly 220 feet high), by the time you hit the water, you're going at 213 miles per hour. Hitting water at this speed is like hitting a brick wall at 25 miles per hour with only your body to absorb the impact---you're dead. Many people think that 25 miles per hour is nothing, but if you were to race as fast as you could into a brick wall (most people would only be going 10-15 miles per hour with a top speed of not much more---running as fast as you can into a brick wall is enough to cause serious injury--and this is nothing compared to the impace your body would absorb hitting water.

If you were to jump in a pencil-dive position (feet first/straight down) it could easily push your feet up into the rest of your body snapping you.

Anyways, it's an interesting page about falling.

I read just about everything on the page.

+There was a semi-recent episode of mythbusters that compared the impact of water/concrete when falling from certain distances.

I'm sure it is on Youtube if you are interested in seeing pig carcasses dropped from helicopters.

I just saw a dude on TV jump from 30 or 40 feet into a paddling pool with only 12 inches of water in it. Amazing stuff. He's perfected his dive to be able to spread out his surface area as much as possible upon hitting the water.

Fauxie said:

I just saw a dude on TV jump from 30 or 40 feet into a paddling pool with only 12 inches of water in it. Amazing stuff. He's perfected his dive to be able to spread out his surface area as much as possible upon hitting the water.

Professor Splash

Fauxie said:

Fauxie said:

I just saw a dude on TV jump from 30 or 40 feet into a paddling pool with only 12 inches of water in it. Amazing stuff. He's perfected his dive to be able to spread out his surface area as much as possible upon hitting the water.

Professor Splash

oh holy crap, that was horrifying!

I've always been fascinated by falling.

^ I love the crowds reaction

silence......woo!....shit/shoot....Ooh-woo!!! (Random guy:"oh my God ") .... applause

minneapolisFunq said:

I read just about everything on the page.

+There was a semi-recent episode of mythbusters that compared the impact of water/concrete when falling from certain distances.

I'm sure it is on Youtube if you are interested in seeing pig carcasses dropped from helicopters.

I love that show!