Editing Diving (sport) (section)

=== Spinal cord injuries ===
{{further|Spinal cord injury|Paraplegia|Quadriplegia}}
[[File:Nodiving.jpg|thumb|right|A sign prohibiting diving at a beach in [[Kirkland, Washington]]. 2007]]

It has been commented that for spinal cord injuries related to diving board use in the United States<ref name="November 2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.divingboardsafety.net/AIR_report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117020347/http://www.divingboardsafety.net/AIR_report.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2010 |url-status=usurped|title=Review of spinal cord injury statistics related to diving and diving board use|publisher=American Institutes for Research|date=21 November 2003|access-date=8 December 2010}}</ref> that "For the purposes of obtaining rough estimates of diving board-related injury risks," the estimated "...rate of SCI [Spinal Cord Injury] due to diving into swimming pools from diving boards to be on the order of 0.028 per 100,000 swimmers..."<ref name="November 2003"/><ref>In the article "Review of spinal cord injury statistics related to diving and diving board use" (November 2003) it is commented that; "For the purposes of obtaining rough estimates of diving board-related injury risks, we present an estimate of diving board-related SCI [Spinal Cord Injury] rates with caveats. It important to note that these injury rates...  ...• Do not consider the frequency or duration of swimming by participants in aquatic activities, and • Do not consider how risk varies according to demographic and environmental factors, such as age, gender, pool type, diving board type, or setting (i.e., residential, community center, etc.)"</ref>