The tradition of cliff diving goes back to 1934, when two neighbors of Acapulco challenged themselves to show their courage and decided to measure their forces by throwing themselves into the sea ...

Cliff divers in Acapulco say they never forget their first time: the leap into the void, the feeling of flying, the shock of hitting the water at high speed. Across the generations, whole families of ...

For the last 27 years, this is how Ignacio Sanchez Casteneda has gone to work: First he swims across a narrow channel and scrambles up a 135-foot vertical rock wall on the other side. When he reach… ...

On Friday, December 8, a group of diving performers known for jumping off Acapulco’s La Quebrada cliff performed for the first time since Hurricane Otis devastated the Mexican coastal town in late ...

Garcia was recently honored at the 65th Cliff Diving Anniversary. The anniversary event celebrated the 90 alumni divers whose 475,000 spectacular dives have helped to make Acapulco synonymous with ...

The Tradition Of Cliff Diving In Acapulco. by Bobbi Dempsey Last updated: 10:30 AM ET, Fri August 26, 2016. There are many exciting things to see and do in Acapulco. ... Watching the cliff divers ...

Samuel Hernandez years ago won the Acapulco World Cliff Diving Championships, throwing his body off the famed Mexican cliffs and into the roiling sea ... diver, who’s now 76, to jump from ...

Notable platform jumping locations include the La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Mexico, and the Ponte Brolla Bridge in Switzerland. 01 How to execute a basic cliff dive ...

ACAPULCO — Acapulco’s iconic cliff divers are ready to resume daily shows, but there are no spectators to witness their death-defying leaps from the craggy heights of La Quebrada into the ...

The jet-setters who gathered here in the 1960s and ’70s long have been replaced by package-deal tourists. The world-famous thoroughfare, Avenida Costera Miguel Aleman, is now a gantlet of theme ...

Reporting from Lakewood, Colo. — In an increasingly desk-bound world where stimulating work can be hard to find, Travis Sims is a breed apart. He’s an Acapulco cliff diver. Well, an Acapulco ...

Following the outbreak of swine flu and inter-cartel violence, tourism to see Acapulco’s famous professional cliff divers has plummeted. Will the profession survive?