Editing Diving (sport) (section)

=== Recreational diving ===
[[File:Strandbad Utting am Ammersee.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lakeside diving platforms in Strandbad Utting am Ammersee, Germany. 2009]]

{{See also|Cliff jumping#Dangers}}
After an incident in [[Washington (state)|Washington]] in 1993, most US and other pool builders are reluctant to equip a residential [[swimming pool]] with a diving springboard so home diving pools are much less common these days. In the incident, 14-year-old Shawn Meneely made a "suicide dive" (holding his hands at his sides, so that his head hit the bottom first) in a private swimming pool and became a [[tetraplegia|tetraplegic]]. The lawyers for the family, Jan Eric Peterson and Fred Zeder, successfully sued the diving board manufacturer, the pool builder, and the National Spa and Pool Institute over the inappropriate depth of the pool.<ref name=Brown>{{cite news |first=AmyJo|last=Brown|title=No Diving?|url=http://www.poolspanews.com/2004/012/012diving.html|publisher=Pool & Spa News| date=30 January 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040304034008/http://www.poolspanews.com/2004/012/012diving.html|archive-date=4 March 2004 |access-date=15 April 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Deep Impact: Back Yard Danger | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deep-impact-back-yard-danger/|publisher=[[CBS News]]|work=[[60 Minutes II]]|date=2 June 1999|access-date=5 January 2012}}</ref>
The NSPI had specified a minimum depth of 7&nbsp;ft 6 in (2.29 m) which proved to be insufficient in the above case. The pool into which Meneely dived was not constructed to the published standards.  The standards had changed after the diving board was installed on the non-compliant pool by the homeowner.  But the courts held that the pool "was close enough" to the standards to hold NSPI liable.  The multimillion-dollar lawsuit was eventually resolved in 2001 for US$6.6&nbsp;million ($8&nbsp;million after interest was added) in favour of the plaintiff.<ref>Appeals Court State of WA, Docket Number:18036-1-III
Title: Shawn Meneely, et al. v. S. R. Smith, Inc., et al.</ref> The NSPI was held to be liable, and was financially strained by the case. It filed twice for [[Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 11]] bankruptcy protection and was successfully reorganised into a new swimming pool industry association.<ref name=Brown/>