Tombstoning condemned by UK

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http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,2 ... 90,00.html

And here I thought the wrestler The Undertaker was in trouble

Seriously, though, I can't see the appeal of that kind of diving. You'd have to be seriously bored or really bonkers to want to try it...

Seems odd to me that people would do this, it's not something that I understand.

It does at first seem like a no brainer, but when you think of it if the people doing it are jumping into deep water from a reasonable height and are good divers / swimmers then they could do it. But I would not dream of ever doing it myself.

I worry that young people who do not know what they are doing might try it and get it badly wrong, as the lifeboat man (Ray Barton) said "get it wrong and you end up with a tombstone".

I have to admire the men of the RNLI, they are not paid and they are brave and skilled men who are in the same class as the pararescue man Jack Brehm. I have read his book "That others might live" and he was some very good things to say about what a hero is. Jack commented that a "normal" firefighter who enters a burning house to rescue a goldfish is more than a hero than a sports star who does well at his sport.

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In the US, "tombstoning" is often what is called making etches of the tombstones using paper and a pencil. I was shocked to find people jumping off cliffs in the UK and calling it that!

This wasn't called anything other than a double dare, back in the day when I used to do it. Nowadays, they give it a cool name, and call it an extreme sport. Why am I always twenty years too late to be cool?

I once jumped off a cliff into a river.

I just don't see the point of it. There's plenty of sports in the UK that could give you the adrenaline rush without killing yourself! Isn't it like basic instinct NOT to jump off high stuff? It's becoming a serious problem for the RNLI.

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Trainspotting, for instance...

There's a place in Mexico where they've done this for years...same result.

But then, there's people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes....

Yeah when I was a kid we just called it look at the dumb drunk.