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controlled falling into a world that would happily drown you, dressed as sport
means The act of plunging headfirst into water, descending beneath its surface, or submerging deliberately for sport, work, or exploration.
from From Old English 'dūfan' (to sink, dive) and 'dȳfan' (to immerse, dip), which trace back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning to plunge or be deep — a cousin of words like 'deep' and 'dip.' The sense of a graceful athletic plunge is a later refinement of that older, blunter idea: simply going under.
- pressure crush
- every 10 meters down adds another atmosphere of squeeze
- nitrogen narcosis
- deep dives can feel like several martinis
- freediving record
- humans have plunged past 200 meters on one breath
- mammalian reflex
- cold water on your face slows your heart instantly
- the bends
- surfacing too fast turns blood into deadly bubbles
olympic 10 meter platform — discipline at every summer olympics since 1912, with athletes diving from a fixed 10-meter height
great blue hole belize — famous diving site off ambergris caye explored by jacques cousteau in 1971, a 407-foot diameter sinkhole