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Cliff Divers
I was there to see these guys a few years back. Crazy small, shallow area that they dive into. Well worth seeing it if in Acapulco.
The cab ride to the viewing area was a real eye-opener.
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I know some divers but that are not always named Cliff.
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I know some Cliffs that are not always named Divers.
Cliff Clavin could have done it. 
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I took diving class for PE in high school. The short/low board was all I could handle.
I could never do what these cliff divers do.
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I could do it. Once.
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I remember in college our dorm pool had a 3m board, so ~10'. I tried both diving head first and jumping in feet first. Both suck. Getting smacked on the head by the water hurt, and on one occasion I must have been at a funny angle because it tried to bend my body a way it didn't want to bend. That was the end of that. Even feet first, feet flat, the bottom of the feet hurt. Feet pointed, your junk gets slammed by the water. Nope, low board for me.
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I was on the diving team in college. I wiped out from the 3 meter board...hard. Never went back. 41 meters? Nope. I thought 120 feet into water was like hitting cement?
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I'd be holding my junk while going feet first at 41 meters.
Either that or a cannonball while praying. No way could I go head first.
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We ate at the restaurant that overlooks the cove where they dive, and watched them dive at night by fire light! They would make a huge fire with wadded up newspaper and time the waves and dive when when the waves were coming in. We met one diver on the beach who was running one of the para sail boats. Nice guy who dove at night and worked the beach during the day.
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and they must climb the rock face barefoot!
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We were there during the middle of the day. The divers came over to the viewing area to answer questions.
The thing that impressed me was that all the divers looked to be related or from the same area. They were all barrel-chested and high shouldered. Just unique features.
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another viewer told me that there is a route on the back-side of the cliff that is easy to get to the diving area. The climbing of the cliff is for the viewers...which is cool.
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This is a better view of the diving.
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Little miss muffet day on a tuffet?
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Back when I was young and thought nothing could harm me I loved to dive off stupid high cliffs. Used to dive from the highest point at Waimea Falls before it became tourist attract and now they don't allow it. Dove off the bridge at 7 sacred pools on Maui which is now illegal (for good reason). One and a half off Black Rock at Kaanapali (but it's not that high). Diving into fresh water is much less of an impact than salt. In my late 30's I dove off a 90 foot cliff and my neck hurt a bit for a few years, that cured me.
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^^^ Why/what the diff between fresh and salt water?
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When I was a kid we watched those on The Wide World of Sports.
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^^^ These might be the grandkids now diving!
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