If Tom Daley put on a swimskin, took a swan dive off the top board, would he crush himself on the bottom of the dive pool due to the additional speed from the hydrodynamics?
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Slow day?
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There’s only one east to find out… 
Still has massive drag in a viscous fluid and is buoyant so I’d say no.
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Good idea, and I’m next to the Daley dive school so…Well, I dont know what, but feels like I’m a step closer to getting him to do it.
I’m going to say, Yes. They’re usually pretty near the bottom on the tv. As we know from aerodynamics, a small improvement when air resistance is at its highest nets the biggest improvement. Water resistance is massive, so I reckon the swim skin could easily add 50% of the “submerged distance”.
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What sort of swimskin? Materials? FINA legal or the illegal body suits?
So many questions
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Full-body polyurethane suit
74kg diver
10m dive platform
3m pool depth
Any more?
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LAC is 5m depth (well its adjustable but in dive mode), 3m Tom is getting a sore head
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Ah, for some reason that stat isn’t advertised. Only the 3m depth of the other pools so I guessed.
Wikipedia fame beckons you…
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I only know as Ive spent so much time watching swimming there i can see them adjust it. I think main pools are max 3m though
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