Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?

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[TomScottGo]

I did ask, and no, I couldn't throw the 360° camera down at the same time!

[Lysanne_Richard]

Thanks for the chat Tom! It was a pleasure meeting you and have a chance to talk about my sport!

[Walls]

Legend has it Tom is still up there to this day, wandering the scaffolding and trembling as he clutches the railing. It is said that if you stay still and listen closely, the railing will sway and wobble as you hear "I'm harnessed in, I'm harnessed in, I'm harnessed in."

[traviswilliams]

It's one thing to drop like a stone, it's another to drop with such grace and do all those flips and turns. Absolutely crazy talent.

[j.malo-roper]

"Because I am 41"

That hit me like a tonne of bricks.

[adifferentangle]

Mad respect for that lady. 41 and diving 20 metres like it's nothing.
Absolute mad lad.

[trustbuster]

I've jumped off a 10 meter high dive, just once. Straight down, not trying to do anything but survive. It is an extremely intense experience. I cannot imagine doubling that height and then trying to do something athletic on the way down. This has to be one of the most extreme sports out there. There is absolutely zero room for error.

[usernamemctypey]

Love how Tom restates facts about how safe he is to himself when he's afraid.

[ElectroBOOM]

The precision of diving from so high and landing so smoothly in water is incredible! I have been dropped on my back in water enough from just a meter enough to be scared of 2 meters for life, let alone 20 meters!

[DavisSystems]

I could sit down and dangle my legs at that 20m board but my body would physically not allow me to jump down there. What she's doing is nuts, props to her.

[ecogeilsnw]

I’ve dived from that exact 5m board. It felt so high, it took me a day to work myself up to it. I never noticed the 20m board.

[antonjanus]

Tom just gave more publicity to Olympic diving than the Canadian Olympic Committee or the sport itself had ever done. Amazing exposé.

[janschwendimann]

The contrast between Tom Scott in support and the diver that is going to jump down without any is hilarious

[kentslocum]

It's so nice to see a former Olympic aquatic venue being used, instead of abandoned like in Brazil.

[Austin-rmip]

The most interesting part of this video to me is how small her splash was. I mean that was like 2 feet? I splash bigger when I dive from 10-12 feet. Like the form to go in with such a small splash is crazy, literally a human bullet

[vbarreiro]

The sound of her dropping is what got me. That was not the sound of an easy-on-the-body splash. That’s gotta hurt.

[aboundedsumo]

Often when i see images and videos of old stadiums from previous Olympics, it's almost always horror stories of empty stadiums left to fall apart from disuse. So seeing one that is not only still fully usable, but accessible to the public, is a breath of fresh air. And the fact that it's from the 90's just makes it even cooler to me.

[paulhamilton]

As someone terrified of heights, I remember standing on a diving platform and realizing that it isn't just the height of the platform that is frightening, but that you can see all the way down to the bottom of the pool. It makes you feel like you are that much higher up.

[richardfarrer]

I've done a (very basic) dive off a ten metre board (many years ago). I enjoyed that. I suspect that, forty years later, even getting up to the 20 metre board would cause me palpitations

[kingof]

That dive was truly breathtaking, it gave me tingles down my spine. Absolutely amazing athletic ability to dive from that height. And a thank you Tom for showing the whole of YouTube that this facility exists in Canada, as I'm sure I'm not the only Canadian that had no Idea we had a 20m indoor high dive platform.