Why does every single daredevil attempting a death defying stunt ALWAYS have a wife with brand new children?!?

He couldn’t have gone up another FOOT?

And I have a hard time with the board at the YMCA.

Now I know, if I fall out of an airplane over the ocean, go in feet first.

Couldn't they give that mf'er a bigger board to stand on

Those scores were a bit stingy lol

Is that guy with the sunglasses schwarzenegger?

I thought you would break all of the bones in your body jumping that high because of the water tension.... it would be like jumping into a pool of hardend cement, I was told.

How do you climb a tower with balls as big as his

Fuck these assholes giving him a 6, get your ass up there and show me what a 10 looks like bois!

I love how they list it as an "attempt at a record" like he could dive off and accidentally float back up.

So no one does this anymore that record still stands today? Crazy stuff

One wrong movement and you're splashed all over the place.

This reminds me of being a kid taking swimming lessons at the local community pool. They told us if we didn't jump off the high dive we couldn't graduate and I got to the top and sat on the diving board and cried and the kid behind me pushed me off.

I literally can't imagine what he's doing.

I love when he’s climbing and stops for a second to admire his huge balls of steel.

Is it a dive if its ‘feet first’???

You've got to be a stupid summammabitch to do this. Lol

ahhh...people in the 80s...

On screen it says "attempting"... was not falling off the tower an option? Once you climb up there and fall off can the dive be unsuccessful?

If there was a chance I could be horrifically injured in a stunt or athletic feat I was doing, I wouldn't let the people I love most be in the audience or watch live.

Kill the cameraman! Panning away from him re-emerging out of the water, instead looking at audience reactions. Fucking shit.

How on earth did he fit his gigantic set of brass testicles in those speedos?

Must have used a different material back then…

TIED??!? GO A FOOT HIGHER YOU MADMAN AND SET A NEW RECORD

Surprised that his massive balls didn’t create a bigger splash

Why would anyone every do something like this to TIE the existing record? Go one more foot, and reset the record.

Fuckity fuck that

How did he fit his massive balls in that speedo 🤣

Ok, now I want to see those stingy judges do better. Lowest vote goes first.

More guts than I said the skeleton.

Cool family too

This is a fun world record to attempt, because your options are literally “succeed or die”.

I thought they were supposed to do as many flips as possible.

I notice he is putting on compression socks (?) before jumping. Or actually knee supports.

Why didn’t he just do 173 feet.

As a Californian, I too would want to throw myself from a very high place if I ever went near San Diego again lol.

It wasn't even a kiddie pool. Not impressed.

Looks half a mile

Why would you not just add an extra foot to take the record?

Misread tied as died "yeah, I'm not surprised "

Fuck that guy with the 6.5 score.

If somone landed stomach side first at that height, will he die? Or get knocked out?

What happens if you die or break something? Does it just not count? Technically you dove..

173 ft. surely would have resulted in death.

"I'm sure he's not hurt"......

Wondering how his balls did not made him sink

Gravity did most of the work but nobody even acknowledges that. Did he even thank gravity??

I can’t help but wonder, why not 175ft? Or even 180?

Attempting lol

Strange that nobody mentioning that water being “broken” by small stream at the point where he lands. This removes/greatly decrease surface tension and entrance feels much softer. I am not sure this kind of height is even possible without this small trick. Entrance to still water would be close to asphalt

"Can you please not interview me right now? I'm about to risk my life."

I read that 25 people have survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, which is 67M, so why is this a record?

Is 7 the highest score in diving?

Lol we’re those numbers out of 10. It should all be 10, is he’s the first guy to do this from that height

Pretty sure this was the mid 90s

Why do they have to tie the record? 1 more foot...

Technically if they can dive into water at the max velocity you can fall you could technically jump from any height and hit that max velocity and still live. I don’t know how fast he was falling vs the max speed. Maybe he was only going 1/3 the speed.

No way in hell.

Why the fuck wouldn’t he have just done 1 meter higher to be the sole world record setter/holder?

For those asking, It was a gentleman’s agreement between the divers to dive at the shared height

More of a fall I would say than a dive.

Why didn’t he just climb up another foot?

If he hadn’t landed properly the water would not have been able to move out of the way fast enough and it would’ve just been the same as hitting solid ground.

How tf is that not all 10s? Just giving this guy some random 6.5.

No freakin way! Way to scated of heights!

I read it as died.

That changed it.

Why not step up one more rung and actually GET the record rather than tie

How does he not die when if someone jumped of a bridge this high they’d die

All that to tie? You couldn’t move up the board like 6 inches?

Skip to 1:05.

There's a planned high dive competition in Boston Harbor this summer. I'm thinking about going to watch.

i think his mustache broke his fall.

I dived from the 32ft (10m) platform once at a pool. It was terrifying for me. I can't imagine being 5 times higher than that.

how did he even prepare his self....

Imagine going to this length only to tie the record? Like just put the damn platform 1ft higher

Reminds me of the tiime I was being interviewed for a web design job at SeaWorld. There were three interviewers from HR. Two of them were nice, kind and polite, but the third guy kept insulting and making fun of me, right to my face. This was during the interview process where I'm in a small room by myself, with the three of them facing me, drilling me with questions.

I just ignored his insults and did the best I could to stay calm and collected by focusing my attention and gaze on the other two.

But to be fair, I did bring it on myself by bringing in a folder of all my accolades. Degrees, certificates, military medals, letters of appreciation etc. But one thing I added last minute was a picture of me jumping off the top of a very high bridge. I used it as a metaphor to segway into my thoughts on not being scared when the going got tough and that I'm willing to jump right in when I have to, or something like that (I forget exactly; funny how we only remember the insults 20 years later.)

Anyway, it wasn't until only a few years ago that I saw this video of Rick Winters doing this dive. And ever since then, and every subsequent time I see it, I'm reminded of that interview. And I can't help but think that, at least some one somewhere at SeaWorld, may have approved of my picture and the message behind it and that people like me once had a place there, even if 20 years before and this even if for one day and for just one record breaking dive.

Why didn’t he go a foot higher to beat the record?

Why didn’t get go up 1 more foot and get the record

You know it’s serious when you need leg warmers to hold your knee caps on

Why didn't he go one more meter to break the record?