The Pink Bull Cliff Diving World Sequence returned to Boston for the third 12 months in a row, with 12 males and 12 ladies leaping off the Seaport’s Institute of Modern Artwork constructing and into the Harbor.
This go to to the Seaport marked the competitors’s one centesimal cease because it started in 2009. However Pink Bull says the game itself is considerably older.
“Cliff diving as a sport originated in the 1700s in Hawaii, when a Hawaiian chief, King Kahekili, first leapt from the holy cliffs of Kaunolo,” the corporate wrote. “The old Hawaiian principles of ‘mana’ and ‘pono’ — power and balance — are still upheld today.”
The occasion continues Saturday, in response to Pink Bull’s web site, and is free and open to the general public, although VIP viewing tickets are on the market.
Museum goers watch as a diver jumps off the Institute of Modern Artwork constructing throughout the Pink Bull Cliff Diving competitors. (Picture By Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Museum goers watch as divers bounce off the Institute of Modern Artwork constructing throughout the Pink Bull Cliff Diving competitors. (Picture By Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
