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Cirque d'Ingénieur Background: Death defying acts in the circus have always been a big draw for crowds. If it's not animal or fire related, most likely there's some sort of dizzying height involved. The audience must stare upward with such intensity that necks become stiff and sore. An Olympic sport and a classic death defying circus act is the high dive. This is where an athlete/performer leaps off a high platform and lands in a pool of water. In the athlete's case, the pool is Olympic sized and there is no question of missing the water. However, a professional stunt high diver, such as Professor Splash in the picture, is leaping off a 80' tower and landing in a 27' round pool 8' deep. Your engineering team has been contacted by a touring production of Cirque du Soleil to research a new and death defying circus act. They wish to reinvent the drama and tension of the high dive, but with the added complexity of the pool being much farther away from the performer's starting platform. Before you design the full featured device, you have been asked to construct a working prototype... Competition Pictures
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