Posted: 5/19/2004 1:03:57 PM EDT
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Anyone else enjoy locating cliffs ( the bigger the better) with some water (preferably deep) at the bottom and then jumping? Any pics or vids? Andy Cliff Andy Swing BJ Cliff Clark Cliff Double Jump & Swing I have a better video but it is like 100mb and my free site wont host that big. |
I regularly jump off of the cliffs shown below. It is called "Spitting Caves" because you land in the ocean just below the people pictured (I just found the pic on the web, it's not mine) at the mouth of a cave that large waves crash in to. When the wave enters the cave, it hits the back and spits out. Spitting Caves is a 55 foot fall. There is another cliff a few hundred yards behind and around the corner from the people in the photo that is 86 feet high. We call that one "The Douche" for obvious reasons. |
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The cliff in the videos above is about 30ft. A good website for cliff jumping, bridge jumping etc is... www.airabovewater.com |
| Entirely too high. Plus, the water was only six or seven feet deep. I remember during the fall that I had plenty of time to think 'now why am I doing this again?' The second time, I tried to do a cannonball, and I hit the water so hard it ripped my trunks off. The worst part was the climb back up. |
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you need to drive down to Possum Kingdom Lake, about 100mi west of Ft. Worth www.nmt-imaging.com/webpages www.pkhideawaycabins.com/HCL.htm some awesome cliffs there 
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well in the pictures of the "famous"  Hell's Gatethose cliffs are about 90-110ft, every year a crazy or two jumps off though the cliff on the left side is actually part of the island, it's called Devil's Island (of course) water is very deep there too, 40-60ft easy there are many cliffs along the shoreline of that lake though in the 20-40ft range that one can safely jump from I haven't been there since I was a kid, spent a few summers there it had very clear water then, lots of scuba divers would practice in that lake because it was so clear |
WAS? did they pollute the shit out of that lake too? Just curious....I'm hoping to land a job in the Dallas area after I escape....uh, i mean, graduate.....would also like to eventually learn the whole scuba diving thing, and having a place like that somewhat nearby would kick ass. 99% of the water here in MO is muddy, and the other 1% is rather cold (springs and spring-fed rivers) |
I haven't been there in 15yrs so I dunno, maybe some of the DFW crew knows ?? I would guess it's still very clear, I just don't know how the water level is since it's been very dry in that part of the state for a few years until this spring |
Dude, there is not way in hell that water was only 6-7 feet deep. You would be in deep dog doo doo. We used to clff jump a lot out at Lake Mead at a place called, "the cliffs" until something really really bad happened to a kid our there. The lake level had been dropping and this young guy jumped the cliff, it was probably around 40 feet high. He went under the water and never came back up. When the dive team recovered his body they said he hit the bottom and basically got trapped in the mud up to his knees. He struggled to get loose from the mud but couldn't, he eventually drowned. I will still jump a cliff now and then but they are mainly accesible by boat only now because the lake has dropped so much. The water has to be at least 25-30 feet or I won't do it and I won't let anyone on my boat do it either. |
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Nope, it really was about six to seven feet deep. We would hit the bottom pretty hard, although the impact was no worse then jumping off of a loading dock or similarly sized platform. Now, the initial impact with the water felt like a son of a bitch. The site is pretty well known. It is in Palma Majorca, an island off of the coast of Spain. Squids have been jumping off of those cliffs for years, so I am pretty sure there are others around here who can attest to the depth. Fact is, most of your velocity is bled off the moment you smack into the water. Water does not compress. Do a belly flop off of a low dive, or a high dive if you like pain, and see how much of your velocity drops off the moment you hit the surface. You don't sink very far. I suppose that if the sea bed was really muddy, one could get stuck in that mud. In that case, your friend didn't die from impact, he died from drowning when he got stuck. PLEASE NOTE: This is not ment to be an encouragement to jump from high places into shallow water. I did it, and I got lucky. I landed on a hard, sandy bottom free from rocks. I would not take the same chances now that I am older. Your results may vary. |