Deadliest Cliff Diving Adventures
#14.
Scarborough man dies at Grotto Rahul Makhija, 23-years-old, visited the Bruce
Peninsula National Park with a couple of his friends.
While there, he went diving off the cliff with his friends.
Unfortunately for him, the water was very cold that day, causing him to involuntarily
gasp when he entered the water.
This filled his lungs with water, making it difficult for him to escape the water.
Some witnesses saw him in distress and pulled him out of the water.
However, unfortunately for him, their rescue efforts were for naught.
Rahul Makhija was pronounced dead by drowning.
#13.
Man dies after hitting boat during cliff diving accident
This incident happened on 8th June 2021 at the famed Raouche Rocks in Beirut, Lebanon.
The man tragically lost his life after jumping off a 118-foot cliff.
Due to the angle of the cliff, he couldn t really see directly beneath him.
Bystanders were screaming at him not to jump.
But, ignoring their warnings, he jumped anyway only to crash into the boat on the way down.
Although Fahd was taken to a hospital for treatment, it wasn t enough to save his life.
#12.
Man gets paralyzed while diving in Vancouver River
Cameron Thompson, went swimming with friends in the Vancouver Island River.
He decided to dive headfirst into a part of the river that was familiar to him.
Unfortunately for him, the reflection of light on the river s surface was playing tricks
on him, causing him to misjudge the jump.
When he dived, his head hit something hard, causing his neck to break in two points, paralyzing
him immediately.
Lucky for him, his friends, who had been trained in CPR and rescue actions, got him out of
the water immediately.
Through their actions, his life was saved.
#11.
Man dies after jumping from 75-foot-cliff into Lake Powell
An 18-year-old identified as Apaulo Talashoma jumped of the 75-foot-cliff of Lake Powell,
Arizona.
Per the park rules, jumping from heights over 15 feet is prohibited.
However, Talashoma didn t allow that to stop him.
Unfortunately, he did not survive the fall and his body was found floating unconscious
in the water.
Witnesses, who spotted the body, wasted little time in contacting the authorities.
But by the time the authorities arrived at the scene, it was too little too late.
Talashoma s body was transported to the Coconino County Medical Examiner s Office in Flagstaff,
Arizona.
#10.
Two Americans die while scaling cliffs in Spain
Two Americans died in Majorca while undergoing an exercise known as deep water soloing, which
is a form of cliff climbing without ropes that relies solely on the presence of water
at the base of a climb to protect against injury from falls.
The pair, aged 35 and 25, were found floating in the water.
There were no witnesses to their deaths.
Upon investigation, it so happened that a rockslide happened during their climb, causing
them to crash dangerously into the water.
Their bodies were retried with the aid of a lifeboat, helicopter, and two jet skis.
#9.
Man narrowly avoids death in cliff diving accident in Wales
On July 9, 2018, mountain rescue expert Mark Humphreys was near the rocky cliffs of the
village of Llanberis in northwest Wales.
He spotted two friends about to cliff dive and decided to record them.
The first of the two friends managed to complete his dive with little problems.
While his friend was preparing at the edge of the cliff, a large piece of rock got dislodged
and tumbled into the water.
It was just a few feet away from the man in the water and would have crushed him totally
if he had been a little closer.
#8.
Young woman survives terrifying cliff diving accident
A young woman named Jamie Brotsky took a trip alone to Italy to enjoy the summer of 2018.
While there, she decided to partake in cliff diving with some other strangers she met on
location.
A few of those strangers jumped before Jamie and successfully made the jump.
However, when it came to Jamie s turn, she tensed up, and her jump was far smaller than
it should have been.
She tumbled down the rocks on the cliff and into the water.
She had to get flown back to Boston in a stretcher and had multiple surgeries to save her foot
which became infected.
Today, she s perfectly fine and continues to make light of the event on social media.
#7.
Temecula man dies at Copper Canyon
Nineteen-year-old Kason Ryan Adams of Temecula, California, went cliff diving in Lake Havasu
City.
There, he jumped off the Copper Canyon large rock formation.
Witnesses were expecting him to resurface, but he never did.
His body was eventually discovered and paramedics on site tried to revive him.
However, despite their best efforts, he ended up succumbing to his wounds.
#6.
Man dies at black hole pond
Eben Bartholomew went camping with a couple of his friends on September 1st, 2021.
He left his wallet, keys, cellphone, and SUV at the campsite, going on to wander on his
own.
After a while, he didn t return, causing his friends to alert authorities.
The authorities then initiated a search of the 8,533-acre wildlife area on foot.
Finally, they found his body with the aid of a submersible drone.
Eben Bartholomew died after cliff diving into the black hole lake, getting wounded, and
drowning.
His body was removed and sent for formal identification and notification of his next of kin.
#5.
Cliff Diver drowns in Ozark, Missouri
Forty-one-year-old Thomas Painter died after he jumped from a 125 feet cliff near the Lake
of the Ozarks, Missouri.
The incident happened on September 7, 2021.
He did not die immediately on impact.
Instead, after he failed to resurface, he succumbed to his injuries and ended up drowning.
His death marked the 11th drowning in the vicinity.
#4.
British man dies in cliff diving accident in Portugal
As soon as travel restrictions were lifted, Andy Kerr, a British man, flew out to Portugal
with his model girlfriend, Karolina Markevica, who is from Latvia.
On May 28, 2021, the two of them decided to go cliff diving in the European country.
Andy Kerr did not survive the adventure.
Details of his death have been kept under wraps.
However, in the time since then, an outpouring of donations has flowed from his loved ones
and relatives to help return his body to his native Scotland.
#3.
Man dies after jumping off a cliff at Long Lake
On June 29, 2021, a young man in Spokane County, Washington State lost his life after a freak
cliff diving accident.
his death was witnessed by a number of witnesses at the scene.
One of them is a distraught woman known as Nicole.
The incident, she says, happened at The Cove , Fisk State Park.
She says that the man ascended to a higher height on the cliff than anyone else before
jumping down.
Although some of his friends were telling him not to jump, he still went ahead with
it.
He had even more momentum than usual since he made a running jump in order to clear two
large rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
Unfortunately, he failed.
#2.
Indian student dies in Mactaquac cliff diving accident
Originally from India, 22-year-old Arnyam Bora was a student, bodybuilder, and martial
artist in St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada.
He had been studying political science and international relations.
On September 26, 2020, he told his girlfriend Milly Squires that he was going cliff diving
at the headpond, about 12 miles west of Fredericton, with a friend.
Milly first noticed something was wrong when Ary didn t text her that night.
She contacted his friend, who informed her of the cliff diving accident.
His body was retrieved from the headpond by RCMP divers the following afternoon.
Since he was pretty well known on his small university campus, the event of his death
sent ripples of devastation far and wide.
#1.
Twin Lakes cliff jumping accident
On Monday, July 19, 2021, a 28-year-old man, whose name has been withheld, decided to go
cliff jumping with a couple of his friends at Twin Lakes, also known as Bottomless Lakes,
behind Mount Swansea in the British Columbia province of Canada.
After jumping off the cliff, several moments passed, after which the man did not resurface.
In a panic, his friends rushed to the area to check it out.
But they didn t find his body no matter how hard they looked.
Soon the Columbia Valley RCMP and Columbia Valley Search and Rescue were on scene, helping
with the search.
It wasn t until the next day that his body was discovered.
By then, it was too late.
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