Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Døds Diving, or Death Diving, is an extreme sport originating in Norway. In this amateur sport, divers jump from high platforms in a horizontal position before tucking their bodies before impact. Unlike traditional diving, the goal is not to minimize splash or perfect form but to maintain a dramatic pose for as long as possible mid-air.
Death diving is a form of extreme freestyle high diving jumping with stretched arms and belly first, landing in either a cannonball or a pike position. Classic death diving, also known in Norwegian as " Dødsing " (lit. "deathing"), was invented by guitarist Erling Bruno Hovden at Frognerbadet during the summer of 1969.
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
This category is for deaths that occurred as a direct result of underwater diving, and those occurring from non-diving causes when the individual was involved in this activity. For deaths caused by diving in the sense of jumping into water, see Category:Diving deaths.
It is also associated with the origins of death diving, and hosts the annual Døds Diving World Championship. [3] It has two 50-meter pools, one with 8 lanes for competitive swimming, and a diving pool with springboards and platforms at heights of 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 meters. [4]
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.
Diving fatality data published in Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers (2015) [3] 90% died with their weight belt on. 86% were alone when they died (either diving solo or separated from their buddy). 80% were men. 50% did not inflate their buoyancy compensator. 25% first got into difficulty on the surface; 50% died on the surface.
In the case of diving emergencies, the risk is generally of death or injury to the diver, while diving or in the water before or after diving. [1] Underwater diving is an activity in which there is a constant risk of an emergency developing. This is a situation common to many human activities.