It's kind of a dead sport where I live, huge bummer. It's been decided that it's too dangerous, the old pools I remember have removed all diving boards low and high, and new pools don't have diving boards. Our local pool even forbids diving from the side, considers racing starts from the blocks as diving and forbids it, even if you are a masters swimmer, total card carrying member of USMS.
Competitive Diving was part of high school swimming when I was a kid, it was big, it was fun. All gone.
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