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Extreme Cliff Diving Safety Tips

By: Bacchus

Break Studios Contributing Writer

Using extreme cliff diving safety tips will determine if you safely land in the water six feet under or find yourself in the ground six feet under. Physics can be your best friend or you worst enemy while extreme cliff diving. Many divers aren’t aware that their bodies are going dozens of miles per hour during a dive. If you land incorrectly in the water it would be like riding down the highway and crashing. Follow these extreme cliff diving safety tips to decrease your chances of injury or death.

  1. Check for any debris. Move any glass bottles, branches, and other junk away from the area you want to dive in, to practice safety tips. If you land on anything hard, you will risk injuries such as cuts or blunt force traumas. If you land on something soft like a net, you can get tangled up in it and lose your mobility.
  2. Find out the depth of the spot you want to dive. For this reason you should only dive in clear waters. The area you dive in should be at least 15 feet deep with no obstacles. This is one of the most important extreme cliff diving safety tips.
  3. Pay attention to the height you’re jumping from. As a beginner, one the best safety tips is to practice diving off platforms at swimming pools. When you go cliff diving, don’t try to jump from any bluff higher than fifteen feet. As you gain more experience, keep adding ten more feet to the height of the cliffs you want to dive off.
  4. Keep your dives simple. You are extreme cliff diving, not participating in acrobatic diving in the Olympics. To exercise good safety tips, avoid doing any somersaults or any twists or curves while diving. It is best to stick with the simple pencil dive, a feet-first dive where you keep your legs together and your arms at your sides, leaning your body slightly backward as you are entering the water.  

Warnings: Do not engage in extreme cliff diving, unless you are an experienced swimmer. Obviously, in order to dive safely, you need depth. Do not expect other people to catch you in the water below. You can land completely away from them or you can land on them. Neither are attractive situations you want to find yourself in. Do not try extreme cliff diving while drunk. Extreme cliff diving is a sport of accuracy. Being intoxicated will lower your ability in achieving accuracy in your diving.

Posted on: Feb. 08, 2011