Editing Diving (sport) (section)

===Impact with water===
[[File:2023-09-24 Glyptofreunde RhodosTour Beach 10.jpg|thumb|right|Diving platforms at a beach in Greece. 2023]] 

Water resistance increases with the speed of entry, so entering the water at high-velocity induces rapid deceleration.<ref name="5 October 2009">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mapquest.com/travel/outdoor-activities/water-sports/cliff-diving.htm|title=How Cliff Diving Works|last=Kolich |first=Heather|work=mapquest|date=5 October 2009 |access-date=15 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524072549/https://www.mapquest.com/travel/outdoor-activities/water-sports/cliff-diving.htm|archive-date=24 May 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="8 June 1989"/> Jumping into water from a height of 20 feet (6.1 m) results in a person impacting with the water surface at 25&nbsp;mph (40&nbsp;km/h).<ref name="5 October 2009"/> Impacting with the water surface at this velocity is capable of giving a person [[Getting the wind knocked out of you|temporary paralysis of the diaphragm]],<ref name="8 June 1989" /> a [[vertebral compression fracture|compressed spine]], broken bones, or [[concussion]].<ref name="April 2018"/><ref name="5 October 2009"/>

The speed that a diver is travelling at the water surface when they dive from a ten-metre platform is around 35&nbsp;mph<ref name="April 2018">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/commonwealth-games-2018-tom-daley-diving-event-injury-latest-news-a8297131.html|title=Commonwealth Games 2018: Tom Daley forced to withdraw from individual event with hip injury|date=10 April 2018|last=McGeehan|first=Matt|work=The independent|access-date=14 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410105143/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/commonwealth-games-2018-tom-daley-diving-event-injury-latest-news-a8297131.html|archive-date=10 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and when a diver hits the water flat from 10 metres they are brought to rest in about 1&nbsp;ft. The extreme deceleration when hitting the water flat at around 35&nbsp;mph can cause severe bruising both internal and external, strains to connective tissue securing the organs, possible minor haemorrhaging to lungs and other tissues possibly resulting in a person coughing up blood,<ref name="August 2023">{{Cite news|url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/tom-daley-gives-tour-second-8663644|title=Tom Daley gives tour of his 'second home' and where he won Olympic gold|date=8 August 2023|last=Ball|first=Elliot|work=Plymouth Herald|access-date=30 May 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240529155804/https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/tom-daley-gives-tour-second-8663644 |archive-date=29 May 2024}}</ref> a [[vertebral compression fracture|compressed spine]], broken bones, or [[concussion]].<ref name="April 2018"/><ref name="5 October 2009"/>  This is very painful and distressing, but not life-threatening.

Tom Daley has described one concussion that occurred to him "I missed my hands before the Beijing World Series and smashed my head at 35mph on to the water...".<ref name="April 2018"/> The concussion resulted in him receiving "headaches, nausea, dizziness...".<ref name="April 2018"/> It also resulted in Daley being "...out of action for six days and left him unable to dive off his competition height of 10m for three weeks."<ref name="April 2018"/>

It was commented that in 1989 a 22-year-old, who was a "...diver and a member of the Salt Lake Country Club diving team... ...climbed up on a set of towering rocks... ...about 60 feet..."<ref name="8 June 1989"/> (18.2 metres). He dove into the water doing a "back flip."<ref name="8 June 1989"/> He never surfaced from the water and was found several days later 120 feet below the surface.<ref name="8 June 1989"/> The 22-year-old was found to have suffered a broken neck.<ref name="8 June 1989"/>