Huh? I don't quite get that.
Anyhow, check with your homeowner's insurer -- some of them are allergic to diving boards, these days. Also, ever since the Meneely lawsuit that bankrupted the NSPI a few years back, you have to think in terms of a LARGE pool with a really DEEP deep end, to avoid a presumption of negligence.
In that case, the guy who brain panned himself, reportedly preceded his dive with the statement, "Watch me do a suicide dive!" Yet, after quadra-pleeging himself, he still won a multi-million settlement. When I was 18 or 19, I did some really, really stupid things myself . . . and God protected me. But I would hope that, had He not, I would not (or at least my parents would not) have used the courts to take the cost of my idiocy out of someone else's hide. (To be fair, it does appear that the NSPI had sat on data indicating that the pool shapes they approved were not as safe as they'd indicated. But, then Meneely had already worked that out, for himself!)
I'm NOT a fan of lawyers.
I'm sure that, somewhere in the world, there is a personal injury lawyer with honesty and integrity. But it's my guess that they are about as common as the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Check out this url, which searches Google for "Swimming pool accident":
https://www.google.com/search?q=swimming+pool+accidents
Almost ALL the top results are either for attorneys, or for attorney sponsored sites.
I just found a tick crawling up my leg (literally just now; I had to get up to flush it; we walk in the Chickamauga Battlefield most days, and the warm weather has brought them out, early.). Both ticks and personal injury lawyers are parasites . . . but ticks don't know any better.
However, just as Susan and I have to prepare to deal with ticks, like it or not, so you have to prepare to deal with lawyers if you put up a slide or diving board. For what it's worth, diving board injuries tend to be much less common, but much more severe than slide injuries. I don't personally know of a diving board injury, except the chest or back raspberries you get when you come too close. But I've known of numerous slip, fall and break something injuries on slides.
If I could build any pool I wanted for my family, we WOULD have a diving board (and a 13' deep end with a 30' long hopper) but I would not have a slide.
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