VIDEO: Record 35-Foot Dive Into 12 Inches of Water
June 27, 2008 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Sports Rumors
Darren Taylor of Colorado set a world record proving just how much some people crave that 15 minutes of fame for highest dive into a shallow body of water. Move over, Mark Spitz.
Giving new meaning to the expression “taking a long walk off a short pier”, Taylor did a man-that-had-to-hurt! plunge of 35 feet into 12 inches of water into a kiddie pool.
Can you imagine being this guy’s neighbor when he first started to practice for this event?
“Honey, Darren next door just jumped off a card table into a kiddie pool. . . wait, just now he leapt off their deck . . . and now—is that his wife?—I think she just threw him off the roof and said something about ‘Breaking records? I’ll show you breaking!’”
Well, it could have happened like that. Anyway, here’s the video (24s):
He really just belly flopped onto a gym mat with a kiddies pool on top of it, not really that impressive.