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Norwegian Cliff Jumper Ken Stornes Setting New World Record Death Dive
January 2025. He throws the stone first to break the surface of the water.
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Re: Norwegian Cliff Jumper Ken Stornes Setting New World Record Death Dive
July 2025. A young adrenaline junkie was left with horrific injuries after attempting a world record death dive off a 140-foot Australian waterfall. Vali Graham, 21, suffered a fractured spine, sternum, skull, and burst eardrum after he jumped from the top of Minnehaha Falls in the Blue Mountains, a scenic region west of Sydney in New South Wales. Footage captured Graham free-falling from the top of the waterfall before slamming into a waterhole below, knocking himself unconscious when he landed in a pike position. Death diving is an extreme sport where daredevils leap from significant heights into a body of water. Divers do a controlled belly flop before closing in a tuck position. The Newcastle native was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgeries, according to local media. The world record for the tallest dive, just shy of 137-feet, is currently held by Swiss diver Lucien Charlon. The Australian death diver thanked God on social media for his speedy recovery. “Update: ‘God gives us the gift of suffering’ after sending this monster 42.5m cliff, I was knocked unconscious,” he said. Amazingly, after regaining consciousness, Graham was able to pull himself out of the water and walk back to a car where his friends took him to a hospital. |
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Re: Norwegian Cliff Jumper Ken Stornes Setting New World Record Death Dive
Over-rotated and was late on deploying the pike.   · |
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07-23-2025, 01:18 PM
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Re: Norwegian Cliff Jumper Ken Stornes Setting New World Record Death Dive
I worked with a bungee company for over a year before I started skydiving. I was at a bridge in Weitchpec , California for my birthday one year doing a bunch of jumps from the bridge there. Some drunken Indian thought he didn’t need cords and free jumped over 140 feet. He was knocked unconscious and did the deadman float for a bit before he regained consciousness. He started swimming down and one of his feet broke the water surface and he changed direction. He finally floated down stream to a rock and crawled out. His left ear was hanging by a thread of skin. No ideas of any other injuries. It was a pretty insane day watching him flop from that high up…  Cool post!  We need more posts here as they don’t come very often anymore. |
