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She placed third in the Mostar event at the 2023 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, [12] and fourth in the series overall. [13] Since 2021, she has been the CEO of High Dive Global, which she founded to promote and develop the sport of high diving. [7] Smart placed ninth in the women's 20-metre at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. [14]
On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
The DAN fatalities workshop of 2011 found that there is a real problem that divers do not follow the procedures they have been trained in, and dive significantly beyond their training, experience, and fitness levels, and that this was the basic cause of most accidents. In litigation involving diving accidents, the legal panel reported that 85% ...
A top French diver suffered an embarrassing – and painful – moment during the inaugural event for a venue that will host diving, swimming and water polo during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
Until 2018, the only permanent regulation-size high diving platform in the world is located in Austria, but it is not used during the winter period. In 2018, Zhaoqing Yingxiong High Diving Training Center, [10] which contains the first year-round regulation-size high diving platform, opened at the Zhaoqing Sports Center in Zhaoqing, China. [11]
French diver Alexis Jandard falls onto the board during a demonstration at the the Olympic Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis, north of Paris on April 4, 2024. (Metropole Du Grand Paris / AFP - Getty ...
Matt Cooper has no illusions about the hazards of diving from a 27-meter platform — about 90 feet, or as high as a nine-story building — into the sea, a lake, or a diving tank. “Even if it ...
Andrea Absolonová (26 December 1976 – 9 December 2004), better known by the pseudonym Lea De Mae, was a Czech diver and a member of the Czech high diving national team, later an adult model and pornographic actress. She died from brain cancer on 9 December 2004, at the age of 27.