why is jumping off a bridge often fatal, but people are rarely injured in high diving?
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There’s a lot of stuff about skill and what not that others have covered and I don’t want to underplay that.
But at the end of the day a huge factor is height. High diving generally maxes out at less than 90 feet and is generally closer to 70-80.
Some of the most famous bridges people jump off of are almost 3 times as high as that. The golden gate bridge in San fran and the Nanjing Yangtze bridge in China are both over 200 feet tall.
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