{"id":1752,"date":"2020-11-06T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T00:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderndayexploring.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2021-10-03T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T07:33:06","slug":"can-you-cliff-dive-with-a-life-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/can-you-cliff-dive-with-a-life-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Cliff Dive With a Life Jacket?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Jumping off high places is probably one of the strangest compulsions you get when looking down from crazy high places. Every human feels it at least once, and overcoming this urge is usually how we know how we will react to hights. However, there are a few places and ways that you can safely jump from somewhere high up. One place that has been popular since the dawning of our ability to swim is jumping from a high place into a lake or body of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You cannot cliff dive with a life jacket, and you will get hurt or possibly drown from the damage the life jacket will cause. Cliff diving is not something you should be doing if you still require a life jacket to swim safely. It should only be done if you have the utmost confidence in your ability to swim and hold your breath.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many reasons that you should not jump off high places with a life jacket, and understanding them all will mean you are much less likely to hurt yourself. The inherent danger of jumping into the water from any high place makes it so much more dangerous to use life jackets while cliff diving; not only is it a lot more difficult to dive, it can be deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diving with a life jacket is never a good idea, and here is everything you need to know about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you cliff dive, you will usually have to have almost perfect form to do it properly or simply enter the water feet first. This is to break the water and ensure that it does not hit you as hard as a rock, with your hands or feet serving to break the immediate water tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may see cliff divers throw in rocks ahead of their jumps to serve the same purpose if the water is too tranquil. It is the same reason you may not see this being done in the ocean, where ocean waves break the water tension. Even in these events, cliff diving with a life jacket can be extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The jacket is designed to purposefully stay at the top of the water, which means that it will refuse to sink at all. When you hit the water, the life jacket will push you up and stop you from sinking safely into the water, thus absorbing all your momentum. The life jacket pulls and tightens around you, preventing you from safely cliff diving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While on a boat, things can be fun, and usually, some rough waves will be hit at speeds. This causes people in the boat to sometimes lose their footing. Whenever someone is on the water, it is highly recommended that you know how to swim, but sometimes people who cannot are out on boats. It is for these two reasons that life jackets are worn when out on lakes or the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The life jackets’ purpose is to keep people afloat if they accidentally hurt their head while falling in the water. Further, if the water body is quite large, the life vest will help keep people afloat and ensure that they do not get tired while having to stay afloat while in the water. Something it is vital to do when lost in the ocean or a great lake.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These are just a few basics of why people wear life jackets while on a boat, and most countries will have laws that require people to wear a life jacket on smaller boats. Usually on larger boats that are safer to be on and much more stable will have fewer laws on when a life jacket must be worn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you first wear a life jacket and experience how it keeps you afloat in the water, you may wonder how exactly it will hurt when jumping from a higher place. Usually, there are four things that can happen when you jump from such a height that causes you to be hurt by the life jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy will it not work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is the reason people on boats have to wear life jackets?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How does a life jacket hurt you if you jump from high up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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