Diving, Bosnian style

Whilst Britain watched Tom Daley winning golds at the world championships, the Bosnians have been doing their own special sort of diving.

The Stari Most (Old Bridge) of Mostar was destroyed by shelling during the war. It was rebuilt in 2004. A old tradition has the men of Mostar jump from the bridge into the absolutely freezing waters of the Neretva below. They still do it. They are quite mad.

Anyway, last weekend they had a big festival. I've been looking on YouTube to see if there were any clips, but I can only find some old ones, so I've included one here. I particularly like the opportunistic Red Bull advertising; last time we were in Mostar I'm pretty sure it wasn't carved onto the keystone.



PS - this is the first time I have ever managed to upload a video so I'm sharing in the applause for being so technical.