Dives are divided into groups based on starting position and direction. There are five groups of dives for all springboard and platform events, plus an additional sixth for just platform. The groups ...

Tracy Schmitt spent years trying to find a scuba instructor. She is a competitive sailor, skier and mountaineer, but each dive shop she approached refused to entertain the idea that she could be a ...

Approach: The forward steps taken by a diver toward the end of the 10m platform or 3m springboard board. This precedes the hurdle and the takeoff and usually involves three or more steps. Armstand: ...

Tracy Schmitt spent years trying to find a scuba instructor. She is a competitive sailor, skier and mountaineer, but each dive shop she approached refused to entertain the idea that she could be a ...

PITI, GUAM -- Wet suit and flippers on, oxygen tank strapped to my back, I steadied myself for the underwater descent. "Look below you," my scuba-diving teacher said. "There are some fish right there.

At the Olympics, dives are scored by seven FINA-appointed judges. The judges rate the execution of every dive on a scale of 1-10, including half-point margins. Once all seven judges have submitted ...

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For the second time in three Games, China came within one event of sweeping the Olympic diving program. One-half of the gold medal-winning synchronized springboard team, Wu Minxia, became Olympic ...

The night before Christy Gourley went scuba diving for the first time, she cried. She cried again the next day, after taking a resort diving course in the Dominican Republic. Yet this time her tears ...