WEBVTT - How Cliff Diving Works 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.319 from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.400 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles W. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.280 Chuck Bryant were a couple of writers for how Stuff 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.720 Works dot Com. When we sit down in front of 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.520 these mics, though, to become stuff you should know, we 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.280 tear open our shirts and there's a big s y 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:35.760 s k on our chest tattooed. That's exactly right, Chuck, Chuck. Yes, 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.520 you ever jumped off a cliff? I have indeed, Yeah, yeah, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.080 the Rock Quarry and Sparta. Do you ever go there? No, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.080 I've jumped off of that one that was that was 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.400 pretty high. There's a rock Cory and Toledo that I 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.960 never went to. Actually it was in uh White House, Whitehall, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.880 Bowling Green somewhere around there. I never went. My dad 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.680 was certified as a scoopa diver there though. Yeah. They 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.720 put something in a bus that was sunken at the 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.319 bottom of it. He had to go get it out 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.840 to prove that he could in fact scuba dive. Yeah, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.679 it sounds creepy. Done that. Yeah, I myself have never 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.560 jumped off a cliff. I love it. Is it thrilling? Yeah, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.880 it's fun. How high was it? I think I'm probably 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.280 overstating it, like everyone probably does when they do the 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.959 skinny thing, but it seemed like it was probably about 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.120 forty or fifty ft. Wow, it was high. Yeah, that 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.000 is high. And actually there's a place at the Chattahoochie that. Uh. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.679 I used to do it too, but that was like, well, Chuck, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.640 you have a hair your chest than I do, because 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.800 I've never jumped off a cliff, but I have been 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.520 to Acapoco before you got me there? Have you? Did 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.080 you read about these guys? Oh yeah, the the La 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.520 Cabrata diverse. I think it's nice that you bring that 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.560 extra acts. You don't have to bring an accent. And anyway, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.400 that French dude email is this weekend. He said he 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:55.560 appreciated it. Yeah, He's like, I'm totally wrong, but he 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.320 thought it was funny. Yeah, so yeah, Brata, Yeah, it's 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.640 a it's pretty cool. These guys are jumping off of 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.600 the highest cliffs that anybody routinely jumps off of the world. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.280 I did, Oh, I didn't know you actually witnessed the performance. Yeah, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.280 I mean, you can't go to Acapoco and not see it. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.720 I believe it's daily, um, except maybe Sundays, but I 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.560 could just be making that up. But the guys, Um, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.040 they jump off something like I think a hundred and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.640 forty eight foot cliffs. That's crazy. Yeah, which what is 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:28.640 that meters? Chuck, Josh, that would be about forty five Okay, nice, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.800 thanks for that. You're just a walking calculator. You know 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.079 it's written right in front of me. Um. But this 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.440 is an enormous cliff. This is what a fourteen story 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.240 building isn't a story like ten feet? Yeah, so they're 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.799 jumping off of fourteen story buildings into waters. It's like 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.320 a little inlet and they're on one side and then 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.320 you're on the other with railing so you don't try 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.720 jumping off. And these guys just start jumping. There's like 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.400 ten fifteen of them. Wow, they do it every night. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.480 And actually it was started by a thirteen old boy 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.240 back in Yeah, that's what I hear. And I will 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:10.920 pronounce his name as Enrique et Pakrios, very very nice. Um. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.440 So this little boy started this tourist attraction, and what 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.000 has arguably become a one of the cooler extreme sports 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.799 as well. But the story goes back further than that, correct. Yeah, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.000 But I just want to point out we're on the 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.160 fifte floor, so this is ballpark. Within about ten or 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:43.080 fifty out the window were wow, Yeah, that's high. Jerry's giggling. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:44.600 She's either gonna cut that out or leave it in. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.800 We'll find out, right, that is very high. That is 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.440 real high. Yeah. I mean we would have jumped onto 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.320 the street have we just jumped out? Plus it would 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.600 have been an extra ten ft. This is water, but 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.080 I'm telling you there's like bowlders at the bottom, there's 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.320 waves breaking. It's an inlet at the ocean, and that's 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.440 part of the trick is to time it with the 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.120 water coming in and out, and then obviously mind the 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.280 boulders and because you know, you clearly don't want to 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.880 like jump into a boulder. But what I also noticed 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.240 in this article that if you hit like a fish, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.039 that could be bad news. Right yeah. Uh. And we'll 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.880 get into the physics of cliff diving soon. But like 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.880 I said, where where do we find the beginning? This 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:30.480 is one of those rare um pieces of um world culture. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.799 Because everybody does it everywhere. Anywhere there's cliffs, there's cliff 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.120 divers pretty much. But this is one of those rare 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.240 pieces that you can go back and be like, this 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.520 guy actually started it. I don't think this is the 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.640 first guy. I would say, he's probably the first guy 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.599 in recorded history. Do you want to take his name? Yes, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:51.640 I'm gonna go with the King kahikil of Hawaii. He 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.080 was the last king of Maui and in seventeen seventy 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:00.720 he reportedly jumped from cannot seats where I get in 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:06.560 trouble Calnolulu. I think it's pretty much how I would 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.080 in my in my head, I can pronounce it better 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.960 than that. But once it goes through the tongue, you 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.280 know what happens. That was about sixty three ft and 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.440 he uh entered the water, didn't make much of a splash. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.839 So he earned the name Birdman and then apparently would 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.480 challenge his warriors to prove their bravery by doing the same. Right. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.800 So that's where it started, at least that's what the 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.360 lower says. And I can imagine, you know, his people 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.720 calling him Birdman and him going, um no, it's uh 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:40.960 Kiley king Kay Kiley actually to you. Yeah, um, but yeah, 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.080 Actually every night at the Ratan Maui they reenact this thing. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.120 They have some guy go up to the top of 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.120 a cliff and it's very cliff. He jumped off of 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.680 right in a loincloth and jump into the water. And 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.200 the reason he jumped into the water was because this 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:03.120 is where the uh the Maui's yeah right, Malian's sure. Uh. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.599 They where they believed that souls transferred into the next 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.880 world through, yeah, the spirit world. And I guess he 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.200 was like, let's see what the hell happens, right, So 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.840 now they re enacted with the loincloth to dude, he 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.800 offers up in each direction to the sky, uh and 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.440 offering he has the lay and then a torch and 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.560 then he'll jump in right and uh when he jumped 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.960 in absolutely no one outside of the Greater Maui area 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:34.599 had a clue. But many years later, the cliff diving 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.480 concept really started to take off thanks to time X 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.040 and ABC Correct So time X. Back in the late fifties, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.880 time makes used to like to um show off the 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.280 impact resistance that their watches could boast. Yeah, I remember 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.760 the and I was about to say, I remember this 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.720 one when I was remember when it first broadcast, so 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.160 clearly I didn't. But they ran this campaign through the 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.800 seventies because I remember the takes a look and keeps 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.840 on ticking things. That's right, Yeah, that's what that That 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.760 was the tagline. Right. So this commercial though they jumped in, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.880 uh John Cameron Swayze what I don't think any relation 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.280 to Patrick. I was wondering the same thing. Actually, I 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.000 have to look that up. Uh he uh hosted this 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.200 commercial and they give a torture test. Right, No, he 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.760 didn't actually jump in, now, he was just like check 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.960 this guy out. And they had some cliff diver jump 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.600 in fist first with the time X like exposed, so 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.840 it was the first thing that hit the water, and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.920 I imagined that after a few takes he eventually didn't 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.200 break the watch and they were like, look what happened. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.000 So that was the late fifties and then really cliff 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.640 diving took off, if you'll excuse me, uh in I 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:53.360 think March nine. Yes, it took the leap in so bad. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.560 With the A b C's Wide World of Sports, which 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.000 was a great concept. Man all over the place, they 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.760 show the craziest stuff. This is long before anybody ever 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.840 thought of the X Games or anything like that. Like 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.400 they just were like, these people are engaged in some 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.480 random sport and we're gonna broadcast it. By god, I 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.960 love that show. The thrill of victory in the agony 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.440 of defeat in Lumberjacks. The guy that the skier that 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.960 had that awful accident was always the agony of defeat. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.600 I don't remember that guy? Was it in the intro? Yeah? 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.720 And then when they said that it showed this skier 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.000 had this just awful crash and flipping over and like 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.520 breaking everyone in his body. Did he die? No? I 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.319 don't think so he lived. He walked away, okay, is 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:39.600 what I say. Um. And then here we are today, actually, Chuck, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.040 I think about four weeks away from the two thousand 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.680 ten Red Bull cliff Diving World Championships. Yeah, the World Series. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.800 By the time this is published, it will probably be 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.080 within a couple of days, but it's May fifteen. If 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.480 you're interested, uh in going to France to watch it? 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.760 They jump off platform. So but it's at a cliff still, right. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.439 But on the site, I was checking out some Frenchmen 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.400 who were cliff diving, um, and they went to this 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.920 old early nineteenth century. For that Napoleon had built off 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.280 the coast of France in the Atlantic. Cool. Um, and 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.320 it's I think twenty high, which places it around sixty 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.920 ft uh huh meters. First, well, it's in France. I 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.800 just thought i'd give like a little head nod, you know, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.160 like France. Y um. And these guys were just jumping 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.840 off this old stone fortress in the middle of the Atlantic. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.280 It's pretty cool. Well, I don't want to say the 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.880 middle of the Atlantic. It's actually right off the coast, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.679 but it's surrounded by water. Yeah, you know, I saw 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.680 that picture. I didn't know what's going on there. That's 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.319 what was going on. Okay, mystery solved. Is it physics time? 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.480 This is this is your bag? Actually I understood. It's 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.600 really not that complicated. No, it's gravity, it's free fall. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.839 Physics is what we're talking about. Sure, Chuck. When you 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.800 walked in here to sit down and contribute your fine 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.760 and half of this podcast, Um, you were being pulled 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.800 towards the Earth by gravity, but you were also meeting 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.800 resistance from the ground, which caused friction. Had you actually 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.240 walked off a cliff on the way in here, you 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.120 would have still been pulled by gravity, but there wouldn't 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.000 be any resistance from the from the force of friction, right, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.280 which makes it free fall, which does make a free fall, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.040 which Galileo was the first to figure this out of 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.160 free fall physics. Um, when you are pulled towards the 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.280 Earth by gravity, you're actually pulled at nine point eight 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.959 meters per second per second. And the reason that extra 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.640 per second is there is because for every second that 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.240 you're in the air falling at that rate, you're increasing 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.920 in speed. So you go nine point eight meters per 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:52.680 second per second to what um nineteen point six meters 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.800 per second per second, and so on. So every second 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.880 you double your speed, your your your velocity. The la 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.360 city is constant, but the speed can increase given time, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.760 But the acceleration is constant, right, That's what it is. Yeah, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.520 I'm sorry, the acceleration is constant, but your speed your 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.760 velocity can actually increase, right given time. Now, in the 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.120 case of cliff diving, height, the height of the cliff 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.200 is pretty much interchangeable with time. The higher the cliff, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:21.640 the more time you're going to be in the air, 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.800 and the faster you go. Right, So when you jump 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.840 off I think a ten foot cliff. How fast are 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.880 you traveling? That's not much of a cliff, I call 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.000 it a rock? Yeah, pretty much about seventeen right. But 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.120 if you jump off a fifty foot cliff like you 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.600 were jumping off of in the quarries, well we'll say 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.120 fifty from now on, Um, that goes up to what 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.000 right now? The problem is when you hit the water, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.280 you encounter that force of friction again, and your velocity 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.360 goes from its maximum speed to almost zero, almost instantaneous. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.880 It's like a second right. Right now, we've encountered why 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.400 cliff diving is dangerous because eventually you're going to land 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.640 on something. Yeah, and you know, before we move on 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.559 from physics, I just thought it was interesting that when 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.080 you do jump out, or if you get a running start, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.320 you're gonna go even faster than if you just drop. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.760 You've added, um, horizontal velocity or horizontal force. I am 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.200 definitely not a physics guy, but you had it right. Velocity, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.199 thanks buddy. One of the cool aspects of free fall 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.000 physics as far as it relates to humans. Also, Chuck, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.040 get this. Do you remember learning like a long time 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.600 ago that no matter what the mass of an object, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.880 it'll fall at the same rate. Galileo again, right, that 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.120 is Galileo. Yeah, and he actually disproved Aristotle with that one. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.000 Some say they're both geniuses. They both are. Um did 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.360 we mention them in the Genius podcast that on that 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.800 list of fifty that ended in George Washington? Right? Um, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.360 you might say that I've dropped a piece of paper 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.040 and a hammer the same time, and the piece of 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.839 paper took longer. That's because it meant resistance from the air. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.440 And actually, um, Commander David Scott of the Apollo fifteen 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.480 mission famously took a hammer and I think a feather 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.559 on the Moon and dropped it and they both landed 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.400 at the same time. Yeah, there's video of it on YouTube. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.840 Actually awesome, But I'm almost done with my physics spiel, okay, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.040 And it ends as such, when you jump off a cliff, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.800 and remember, you're not meeting friction any longer, and so 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.719 there's no resistance besides this negligible air resistance. Um, you 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.679 actually do encounter what we would consider on Earth as 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.720 close to weightlesses as we can get. Right, So your 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.320 your body is being pulled as a whole by gravity 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.319 equally all parts except for your internal organs, right, which 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:53.000 actually lose weightless lose weight and rise up in your chest, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.320 which is why your stomach feels like it's coming out. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.319 Actually is Isn't that cool? I've always wondered what that was. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.480 That's what it is. Goodness me. Alright, we're done at 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.800 the physics part. Yeah, well two to three g s 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.040 we should say, Like at the World Championships they hit 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.000 about two to three gs and those dudes are going 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.920 at speeds up to sixty. That's fast. That's really fast 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.560 to be hitting the water. And you want to since 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.800 we're at the water entry point, which I think where 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.520 we left off with the physics, you want to go 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.200 and really really really straight. That's the key because if 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.160 you flatten out, it is the room. You know, you 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.720 hear the legend about it's like hitting concrete. It is 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.840 like hitting concrete and you would die, yes, you would, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.360 or you know, not be the same person afterwards. The 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.200 very least. There's actually there's a website by a woman, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.520 a Quebecan named Patricia I think her name is, who's 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.840 created this website dedicated to warning people about a famous 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.480 tourist Cliff diving site called Ricks Cafe and the Grille Jamaica. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.800 That's only though, it is. But this woman jumped off 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.600 this thirty five ft platform and he bet she belly flopped. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.800 She couldn't have gone in feet first, because this is 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.440 what happened to her is she suffered a broken spine, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:14.280 broken sternum, displaced diaphragm, which is never good and uh 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.560 did she look at her purse? And terrible and uh 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.000 posterior vitreous detachment which means the jelly in her eyes loose. Now, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.920 oh man, thirty thirty ft jump. Well, the deal there though, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.560 at the cafe is they have it set up with 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.880 the platform, right they. I mean you have to sign 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.720 a waiver or anything. I don't know. I think if 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.360 if you were a smart owner of Rick's Cafe and 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.880 you were encouraging tourists and jump off the platform, yeah, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.840 you would have them signed her way their firstborn child. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.400 Well they do say in here though the official tours 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:53.600 tourism boards don't encourage this because it's dangerous. It's really dangerous. Yeah, 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.440 and we should also probably take the time to c 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.720 o A and tell you that we don't encourage you 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.360 to click dive either. No, I mean a tin foot 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.520 rock is one thing. But even then, if you land 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.200 on another rock, there's a lot of people like you said, fish, Yeah, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.080 fish traveling sixty miles an hour and you hit a fish, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:17.080 it's not as um let's say liquid as a water, right, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.400 although it will be after you hit it at sixty miles, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.680 So chuck. In addition to Ricks Cafe and the Grill, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.120 what are some of the other um well known cliff 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.960 diving locations hot spots? Josh, that's one way to put it. Well, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.480 I know Jamaica, the West End cliffs and the Grille. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.080 That's where Ricks is. Oh is it that they have 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.920 the Limestone cliffs? Those are really popular? Sure? Pretty I imagine. 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.680 So there's two phrases or terms that the Hawaiians used 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.720 depending on whether you make a splash or not with 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.480 a big jump. So leally kawa that sounds right. Thanks. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.000 That's a that's to leap from a great height and 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.040 enter the water without a splash, which we should say 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:05.160 is what King Kahikili did. Yeah, I think that's right. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:07.919 Is that the name of the idol that the Brady 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.280 kids found in the episode where they went to Hawaii 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.840 the two parter I don't know those are great episodes, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.840 though they really were. Debbie would know that, my friend 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.040 Debbie would know. Well, tell her to write in okay 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.600 okay um the other way. The other expression is lately pahu. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.560 That sounds right too, thanks. Man. That's entering the water 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.920 with a big splash from a great jump, and that's 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.200 that's a bad thing, right, Yeah, some people just do 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.600 a cannon ball. Yeah, well say say so long to 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:40.639 your shins. Yeah, exactly. So we got Hawaii Acapulco again. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.600 The La cabrata Um divers. Seriously, they're jumping off of 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.080 a hundred and forty seven foot cliffs right. The next 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.000 highest that I've seen, well, actually that i've seen in 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.760 this article is in Croatia and Dubrovnik, and those are 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.080 fet and that's about the height that they do. The 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.520 competition dives. They don't do competition dives from feet because 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.639 they're doing flips and twitter. Actually I've got some stuff 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.640 on that. But they're not just diving in. They going 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.800 feet first generally. Oh really, well, for the competition, I 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.400 haven't seen many of many of those guys going head first. Dude. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.119 The guys in Acapulco flips in mid air and dive 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.679 in like it's not just jumping off of a cliff 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.960 like these, and they'll do it like several at a time. Well, yeah, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.080 I did see on YouTube, but want a tandem dive 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.679 or whatever? This is multiple um. Also, if you ever 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.520 get a chance to go to Acapulco, I wouldn't recommend 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.760 going now, what with the raging drug war in Mexico. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.919 But if that ever dies down and you do get 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.320 to go to Acapulco, do go see the cliff divers. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.000 I think that's a great move. Or if you can't 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.000 go there, just go to YouTube. You can check it 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.520 out there. Check out some awfully bad video. Uh. The 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.520 World High Diving Federation, Josh, they recommend water depths of 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.600 forty nine feet for a dive of sixty ft or less, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.480 and they also recommend that no one dive from six 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.560 are higher unless you're a pro and you have like 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.440 scuba divers down there to retrieve your lifeless body or 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.760 at least your shattered body. Exactly. Okay, Chuck, Let's say 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.159 somebody out there is going to try this, whether we 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.440 tell them to or not, and let's just do it again. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.960 Let's just tell them not to cliff dive. Okay, don't 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.040 cliff dive, thank you. If they're going to do it anyway, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.000 should we give them some safety tips, Yes, Josh, we 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.399 have some tips. The first one on the list slow 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.640 and low. Don't charge out there to the sixty ft 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.240 cliff right off the bat start on the tin footer, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.840 slow and low. That is the tempo. You want to 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:48.760 check out, very nice. You want to check out the 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.400 water beforehand. Swim around down there at your landing zone. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:54.880 Scare off any fish. You can scare off any fish. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.800 Feel around for rocks and things, bar uncles, underwater spears, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.000 anything like that. Right, you go with a friend who's 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:08.840 always a good idea. You don't want cliff side by yourself, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.680 You're dummy. You might as well dig your own grave 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.359 and lye in and start shoveling dirt over yourself. They 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.320 recommend to wear a wetsuit because it can add a 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.320 little cushioning. But if you've ever seen cliff divers, they 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:24.000 generally wear the speedo I know, which makes it one 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.400 of the sexiest extreme sports around. You don't see Tony 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.200 Hawk in a speedo, do you know? Wow? I'm trying 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.720 to imagine on skateboarding with a speedo. I'm sure somebody's 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.200 done it. Probably those crazy kids that um jackass or whatever. 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.840 Oh yeah, that one guy always wears his underwear. Uh. 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.600 We we need to talk about Orlando Duque though. He's 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.520 like the king Daddy of cliff diving. He's ill do no, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.840 actually they call him the Duke of dive, so you're 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.240 not like he he's Colombian, but he lives in Hawaii. Now. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:00.200 He's nine time world champ and his personal w kird 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.240 in competition is a hundred and eleven feet and he 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.640 holds the record for the perfect dive. He's the only 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.879 guy to ever get judged to get scored a perfect 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.920 dive across the board And um, did they factor in 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.240 how you looking a speedo into that score? Yeah? He's 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.119 a handsome man, Yeah he has Uh. He also he 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.160 was he wanted to be a high diver for Columbia, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.520 but they didn't like an Olympic hidiver. But they wouldn't 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:26.359 fund him, so he was like, okay, yeah, I go 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.399 dig off cliffs performance shows. So he makes a lot 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.800 more scratch doing this, I'm sure than he would have 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.760 as an as an Olympian. I'd like to mention somebody 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.560 who's that. His name is de Juan Ron. He's Chinese. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.480 If you couldn't get he's fifty one and he actually 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.920 holds the world record that he's set in two thousand 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:50.160 and eight for um cliff diving off of waterfalls. Wow. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:52.399 I want you to think about this for a second. 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.000 In most cases with waterfalls, there are rocks at the 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.879 bottom and there's a little something that we like to 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:04.760 call a vortex. Yes, this is a swirling funnel of 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.840 water underwater that sucks you in and hold you there. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.480 This guy aims for the center. Does that make sense? 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:17.080 Apparently because he's survived it would soften the fall though 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.240 probably right. I have no idea why he jumps into 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.639 the center. He just does. Wow. Ye how high? Uh? 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:28.480 The twelve point nineteen meters? So what's that? It's like, 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:32.720 it's not It isn't. But he's jumping into a vortex 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.560 for God's sake, right, and he's one. Yeah. The there's 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.480 high divers too, that's a different deal. Like the show people, 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.760 the high diving show people. That's not a cliff thing situation, obviously, 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.119 but they think the world record is do name Oliver 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:53.480 Farve hundred and seventy eight feet and into they jump 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.600 into those pools like a little little cup riding an 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.480