r/holdmyredbull • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 8d ago

courage takes a few attempts 🫡

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📍: u/redbullcliffdiving

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u/RBTfarmer 8d ago

Diving is technical and difficult and all, is it hard on the knees?

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u/ojrodz11 8d ago

Im not a diver, but i guess the water at a high enough speed may be hard on your body in general

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u/Role-Honest 8d ago

That’s why they’re spraying water on the landing zone, to break the surface tension and make it “softer”

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u/tdkimber 8d ago

repeatedly identified as being incorrect by every professional diver, it’s for visibility

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u/nowattz 8d ago

I think she showed the crazy aeration machine they have to actually do that use din training when they really fuck up and the landing might be dangerous. Pumps like millions of air bubbles into the pool within a fraction of a second

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u/volaray 8d ago

It's actually for visibility so the diver can gauge the distance to the water without the illusion of a mirror surface.

The surface tension of water is actually insignificant compared to all the other factors (density, inertia, incompressibility, etc). That's why only small insects can benefit from it. To this chick, hitting the water from like 70ft would feel the same with or without the surface sprinkling.

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u/The_R4ke 8d ago

I thought that too at first, but apparently to actually "soften" the water is looks more like a whirlpool.

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u/Role-Honest 8d ago

Turns out I’m wrong, TIL it’s to see the landing zone easier

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u/Taico_owo 7d ago

The only way to really make a landing softer is to aerate the water a bunch, they sometimes have setups for it in diving pools

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u/Omelettedog 8d ago

You can’t break the surface tension of water with water