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harland

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Watched by horrified visitors, the 25-year-old performed what he described as a “tsukahara, front flip 180 to backflip” from the top of the waterfall.  However, despite carrying out a risk assessment prior to the jump, Mr Harper said he had underestimated the risk and was “lucky to be alive” after the strong current held him under for about seven seconds. “I feel lucky to be alive, to anybody else thinking of jumping this waterfall, please do not! It is definitely not safe,” he said. “We knew the risks and wanted to jump, I was held under for about seven to eight seconds and it was a real struggle to swim to the surface. I thought I’d be ok where I jumped, I wasn’t.”

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Re: Cliff diver at High Force - no comment required
« Reply #1 on: 14:06:01, 10/12/18 »
 Its what happens when a man's ego thinks it is bigger than nature. ::)


harland

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Re: Cliff diver at High Force - no comment required
« Reply #3 on: 14:33:19, 10/12/18 »
Well done, I didn't think that there would be two idiots jumping off!

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« Reply #4 on: 14:36:19, 10/12/18 »
Heart of a lion, brain of a lemming.
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« Reply #5 on: 08:06:13, 14/12/18 »
Those who "push the envelope" often end up with a paper cut. What a Richard Cranium.

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« Reply #6 on: 18:51:49, 14/12/18 »
Best my lad doesn't see that I can imagine him giving it a try.  Unfortunately he takes after his dad. Someone has to push Darwin's theory.

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« Reply #7 on: 19:37:33, 14/12/18 »
We get them jumping off the sea wall here in Portsmouth. The 'famous' one was the lad who is now paralysed from the neck down.

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« Reply #8 on: 19:48:21, 14/12/18 »
If Darwin was right by now lemmings would only throw themselves off small pebbles.
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