why is jumping off a bridge often fatal, but people are rarely injured in high diving?

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why is jumping off a bridge often fatal, but people are rarely injured in high diving?

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Bridges are often much higher than high diving. When jumping from a really high place like bridges, we fall so fast that hitting water is the same as hitting concrete. High diving is not high enough for this to happen.

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