{"id":376,"date":"2022-11-02T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2022-11-04T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:53:09","slug":"1983-high-dive-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/2022\/11\/02\/1983-high-dive-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Dive From 172 Feet? This Guy Did!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nobody likes jumping off the high diving board at a pool. It\u2019s daunting, scary high, you usually belly flop, and your stomach gets red \u2013 it\u2019s just a scary mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the case for Rick Winters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2021\/03\/1983-world-record-high-dive-challenge-full-recap\/\" title=\"\">1983 World Record High Dive Challenge<\/a>, hosted at the San Diego SeaWorld, Rick set the world record as the first person to attempt to successfully dive from the height of 172 feet (52 m). The height of 172 feet was an increase from the year prior&#8217;s world record. The 1982 high dive challenge height was 170 feet, which five divers attempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rick Winters\u2019 first 172 ft. world record high dive, 1983 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i4faVetZ0w\">pic.twitter.com\/i4faVetZ0w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historyinmemes\/status\/1579229791961903104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even crazier \u2013 Rick Winters wasn\u2019t the only preson to break this high dive world record that day! That\u2019s right, Rick Winters was one of SIX divers that day!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let\u2019s <em>dive<\/em> in and check out these 6 daredevil record breakers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First up, Rick Winters:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"First 172 World Record High Dive - Rick Winters\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1EQdWp0Ggo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Following Rick Wniters was Rick Charls. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like it was a big day for people named Rick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rick Charls World Record High Dive 172&#039;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDqN8sEl6oE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Following the Ricks, two more divers attempted the record breaking dive. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The divers, Bruce Boccia and Mike Foley, both successfully completed the dive that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"In 1983, Bruce Boccia made an attempt to tie the world record for high dive at Sea World in San Dieg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3s-y5suZMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dana Kunze, who was 22 years old at the time, followed with the most impressive dive of the day. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana was already world champion high dive. He used his skills to his advantage to complete this insane and incredibly difficult dive in terms of execution.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"World&#039;s Highest Dive - Dana Kunze 172 Foot High Dive World Champion\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQCUouinJvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After Dana\u2019s dive, things took a turn when Pat Picard attempted the final dive of the event. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, it did not go well. It\u2019s hard to watch, but you can see for yourself here around the 26 minute mark:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"ABC&#039;s Wide World of Sports - World Record High Dive Challenge 1983 (172 ft)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5-yev7I4UY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/category\/video\/\" title=\"\">Want to watch more cool history videos? Check them out here on our website!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch these 6 divers attempt to beat the1983 World Record High Dive Challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[68,66,38,31,69,50,67],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-video","tag-diving","tag-high-dive","tag-history-news","tag-history-videos","tag-sports","tag-video","tag-world-record"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/high-dive.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}