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Charls, Rick Winters, Bruce Boccia, Mike Foley and Dana Kunze were the only divers to receive credit for the 172 feet (52 m) dive. Charls also earned honors as the 1980 world tandem high diving champion, along with third-place finishes and bronze medals at the 1982 World Target High Diving Championships in Hawaii and the World Acrobatic High ...
The following is a list of individuals who survived a fall without the utilization of a parachute that is equal to or greater than 100 feet (or 30 metres). Please note that some heights are difficult to verify due to lack of documentation and are approximated.
High diving can be performed as an adventure sport (as with cliff diving), as a performance stunt (as with many records attempts), or competitively during sporting events. It debuted at a FINA event at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona , after the sport was added to the federation's list of disciplines.
First woman to Earth's highest and lowest points. [15] [16] Pilot: Vescovo 8 June 14, 2020: John Rost [17] Limiting Factor: Eastern Pool: Longest time at bottom: 4.2 hours. Pilot: Vescovo 9 June 20, 2020: Kelly Walsh [18] Limiting Factor: Western Pool: Son of Don Walsh. First father and son. Pilot: Vescovo 10 June 22, 2020: Ying-Tsong Lin [19 ...
The 60-year-old, whose real name is Darren Taylor, attempted to dive from very high up into a very shallow pool. “I'm gonna do a belly flop into 10 inches of water from 26 feet, 6 inches for a ...
Felix Baumgartner (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaʁtnɐ]; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. [1] He is widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
In 1946 Fransen made a record breaking high-dive from the roof of Earls Court Exhibition Centre, a height of 108 feet (33 m), landing in water at a depth of 8 feet (2.4 m). [1] The dive incorporated a full somersault followed by a head-first entry into a 16-foot (4.9 m) diameter (above ground) diving tank.
Exley was the first in the world to log over 1,000 cave dives (at the age of 23); in 29 years of cave diving, he made over 4000 dives. [10]Exley had an unusual resistance to nitrogen narcosis, and was one of the few divers to survive a 400-foot (120 m) open-water dive on simple compressed air.