A diving sport for daredevils

Earlier this month Ken Stornes a former Norwegian MMA fighterturnedextreme athlete plunged into the icy waters of Nordfjord from a platform on the side of a tall cliff breaking the record for death diving Invented by guitar player Erling Bruno Hovden at Frognerbadet during the summer of 1972 death diving or ldquoDodsingrdquo is a form of extreme freestyle high diving with stretched arms and belly firstJumps are usually performed from a platform positioned between 10 to 15 m above the water but the bravest of death divers plunge from much higher with the current record in the menrsquos classic category sitting at 405 mldquoOnce again we take the death dive world record back to Norway where it belongsrdquo Stornes wrote on his Instagram where he first posted the video of his insane dive Stornes who looks and markets himself as a modernday Viking has amassed a following of more than 700000 people on Instagram alone by posting videos of extreme jumps in bodies of freezing water His latest feat has been viewed millions of timesldquoIrsquom a person who needs to do things I like to have something to strive for and like to do things that can be a little riskyrdquo Ken Stornes told a Norwegian news website ldquoAt least it makes me feel aliverdquo Deathdiving from over 40 meters is incredibly dangerous and Stornes admits that he could have seriously injured himself if he didnrsquot nail the landing perfectly Classic death diving requires daredevils to dive with their arms and legs extended horizontally for as long as possible before curling up into a pike position just before they hit the waterldquoI landed perfectlyrdquo Stornes said about his recordbreaking 405 m death dive ldquoThe landing was perfect and that is what countsrdquo Asked whether he would ever attempt a death dive from 50 m high and he said ldquoYou canrsquot get away with 50 m without serious injuriesrdquoCharged by AIRussian scientist imprisoned for 10 months after AI wrongly identified him as a criminalAlexander Tsvetkov a scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Inland Water Biology has been living a nightmare for the past 10 months Investigators claimed that he and his alleged accomplice killed at least two people in Moscow and the Moscow region in August 2002According to several news sources despite the mountain of evidence exonerating Tsvetkov in this murder case Russian authorities chose to trust software powered by artificial intelligence It had found that the hydrologistrsquos appearance matched that of the wanted killer about 55 per cent which was apparently enough to warrant his imprisonmentBagged to goFancy a meal on the go Japanese company Sanki Consys Co Ltdrsquos ldquoWillcookrdquo bag which looks like an average laptop bag can heat up what is placed inside to 80C in just five minutes The bag itself weighs just 160 gm and also has insulating properties that keeps food coolFastest fingers first6yearold Cao Qixian from China set the new womenrsquos world record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubikrsquos cube in 597 seconds average at the Rubikrsquos Cube International Open in Singapore Qixian started playing with a Rubikrsquos cube when she was only threeCaution finger foodA Connecticut customer has filed a lawsuit against the fast casual chain Chopt over a salad that she says contained a piece of the managerrsquos finger According to the suit a manager at the restaurant severed a piece of her left pointer finger while chopping arugulaNosy behaviourA team of scientists studying freshwater ponds on an Australian island observed a rather peculiar mosquito behaviormdashwhen feeding on frogs mosquitoes would always go for the nostrils John Gould and Jose Valdez spent three years surveying approximately 60 freshwater wetland ponds on Kooragang Island in New South Wales Out of the thousands of photos 12 of them showed mosquitoes feeding on various species of frogs sucking blood from the animalsrsquo nostrils This suggests that the nostril is the optimal location for blood extraction hence it was worth the riskSwiper no swipingAn arizona woman got a huge shock when surveillance footage showed the thief who stole her backyard cameras was fourlegged and fluffytailed Esmeralda Egurrola of Tucson noticed on Monday that her three motionactivated cameras appeared offline So she checked the most recent recording in each camera from an app on her cellphone Three videos had documented an entire heist carried out by a grey fox