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n. structure used for competitive diving, consisting of a vertical rigid tower with one or more horizontal platforms extending out over a deep pool of water.
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A diving platform or diving tower is a type of structure used for competitive diving. It consists of a vertical rigid "tower" with one or more horizontal platforms extending out over a deep pool of water. In platform diving, the diver jumps from a high stationary surface. The height of the platforms - , and - gives the diver enough time to perform the acrobatic movements of a particular dive. There are additional platforms set at and . Diving platforms for FINA sanctioned meets must be at least long and wide. Most platforms are covered by some sort of matting or non-slip surface to prevent athletes from slipping.
All three levels of the platform are used in JO and NCAA competition. Each level offers a distinct degree of difficulty (DD) and therefore could yield different scores for divers.
Usage examples of "diving platform".
Greg glanced over the taffrail to see four crewmen inflating two odd-looking craft on the edge of the diving platform.
Exhausted and shaken, Pitt gratefully let himself be pulled up onto the diving platform where helping hands removed his diving gear.
And also, do try not to jump into the water from the top of the diving platform just when Prudence is underneath.
She swam the length of the pool underwater, turning around one of the children (which made them shriek with delight), and headed back, still skimming the bottom, Luis walked to the diving platform and watched her slide towards him, as flat as cardboard.
There was a bar area, a barbecue area, heavy chaises with the cushions stored away, a diving platform, a men's bathhouse and women's bathhouse with terribly cute symbols on the doors, weatherproof speakers fastened to palm boles, dozens of outdoor spots and floods, a couple of thatched tea houses, storage bins, big shade devices made of pipe, with fading canvas still lashed in place.
The Neidermeyers had a float equipped with a diving platform, and it was there that Jessie began to develop the form which won her a place first on her high school swim-team and then on the All-State team in 1971 - What she remembered second-best about diving from the board on the Neidermeyers' float (first - for then and for always - was the swoop through the hot summer air toward the blue glitter of the waiting water) was how it felt to come up from the depths, through conflicting layers of warm and cold.
The Neidermeyers had a float equipped with a diving platform, and it was there that Jessie began to develop the form which won her a place first on her high school swim-team and then on the All-State team in 1971 —.