Dumb ways to die. Photo: 00Nation // YouTube
Death diving is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The hobby, also known as døds diving or dødsing in its mother tongue of Norwegian, is a form of cliff diving that involves jumping horizontally, before curling into a pike at the last second in order to narrowly avoid a fatal belly flop. Recently, a group of death divers managed to make the activity even more dangerous, by hucking themselves off a 65-foot-tall iceberg.
The stunt was engineered by 00NATION, a Norwegian lifestyle brand that first began in esports and has since expanded into action sports, and performed by divers Truls Torp and Côme Girardot.
“It’s been on my mind since I started dødsing actually,” explained Girardot. “Like what defines a døds the most? I feel like the spirit of dødsing is jumping off an iceberg and it’s so raw. It’s so pure. It’s so døds, you know.”
I don’t know, but they seem confident in it, so they trekked over to Greenland and began surveying the area for an appropriate hunk of ice to throw themselves off of.
Death diving is already dangerous enough (in fact, Côme Girardot broke his back just a year ago attempting a 34-meter dive in Mallorca), but diving from a glacier adds a whole slew of complications to the stunt. The team had to take into account currents, shifting takeoff points, the possibility of a piece of the glacier falling off, and massive chunks of ice floating in the landing zone.
“This is the type of jump you start to think about your loved ones, people you care about,” said Torp “But I think our plan is solid. And I talked with Côme yesterday. We’re not here to take the biggest risk. We’re not here to prove to someone that we’re the best at this. We’re here to to make a sick memory.”
In the end, though, they found their white whale…and hucked themselves off of it. Check out the full video below.
