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A new TikTok trend is taking hold, but people are calling the stunt dangerous. People are jumping into bodies of water from high levels and intentionally landing with a belly flop, which they’re “death diving.” One person even threw herself off of a platform 81-feet in the air, about 48-feet higher than an Olympic diving board. As fun as it might look, experts say definitely do not do it. Jim Spiers of Stop Drowning Now says the best way to enter the water is by a vertical jump.
And I’m sure their life insurance carrier will cancel them too aside possibly dying!
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a 50ft fall will kill y’all.
This seems like the best way to get rid of all the stupid people….I dont see an issue
I’m pretty sure at some point the surface tension will feel like concrete if your high enough and belly flopped, aka your essentially just no life-ing yourself.
I belly flopped once as kid into a pool. I’ll never do that again.
I’ve noticed they seem to be throwing their feet first at the last second so their legs absorb the brunt of the impact, kind of acting as a shield for their organs. However, if someone were to mess up the timing and ACTUALLY bellyflop, they’d die. The risk factor is still definitely there.
This “trend”, which is not a belly flop but rather a jacknife-like dive, originated as a counter-culture stunt in Norway back in the 1980s
Inside Edition on the beat and warning people of the risks. Keep up the good work!
..and they’ll expect our sympathies when it goes terribly wrong. 🤦♂️
I’m glad people follow and do these tik tok stunts. Maybe this will get rid of the idiots in our society.
Bellyflopping just from a normal height already hurts very badly, so I don’t even understand how these people withstand the pain after doing this “Death Dive.”
Feel like if we gotta tell people over the age of 17 to not do this, let them do it 🤦🏾♂️😂
“Every death from a TikTok trend means a world with lesser idiotic people.”
-me
I just never imagined a day where grown people needed to be warned of these kind of dangers.
I would love to live a life where I can do not only dream of climbing stairs or a small hill. When I see people of placing themselves and sometimes others in mortal danger this scares and disappoints me. I hope that people whom act this way have to pay their own medical bills and when necessary others rescuers ect. No insurance company nor family should be left paying bills for the stupid.
TikTok has the worst challenges. Thank goodness I don’t ever plan on signing up for an account.
The only way to safely dive from such a height is to go feet first, with your arms straight & stiff by your sides. Only reason I know this is because of a man who famously jumped from bridges in that exact pose, always unharmed (but then he died when a freak gust of wind blew him out of position, causing massive damage to his body when he hit the water). Even if you tried jumping feet first & stiff as a board, I still wouldn’t risk it; there’s too much that can go wrong. 😨
😮 why people take their life for granted like that is beyond me 🤦🏽♀️ GOD PLEASE 🙏🏽 HELP THIS WORLD
When I was younger a girl that lived near me did this. She became paraplegic and later died, from the other internal injuries, stemming from high altitude “belly flopping.” It’s not worth it.
Also, stay safe everyone. Views aren’t worth bodily harm and/or death.
As someone who did professional swimming, which involved us learning to jump off heights, we were always taught anything over 80 feet, is like hitting a brick wall if you dont land correctly. Dont let the idea of “its water” fool you. Hit something “soft” hard enough, and it will hurt you.