Being an olympic diver

Ever wondered what it was like to stand on the diving platform at the olympics? Letting this interactive image load is worth the 30sec wait to see. Once loaded, you can click, hold and move the mouse to have the head rotation effect of your view. Pretty intense when you imagine the 17k people that would be surrounding you.

It’s also narrated by Thomas Finchum an American diver competing in Beijing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/20080821_10M_DIVING.html