Tombstoning, or jumping off cliffs, has been in the news a lot recently, and the issue has been causing some major friction in the climbing community.
Tombstoning is a separate entity entirely to Deep Water Soloing. But this is not to say that the two are not considered related -- at least by some government officials in the U.S. and the U.K.
Recently there has been a major incident in the U.K. at Durdle Door in Dorset (See the BBC report), and in the U.S, Tombstoning has been banned from Summersville Lake in West Virginia. This has had a knock-on effect on DWS activates in the U.S as it appears to some that DWS `splashdowns' are an act of Tombstoning.
If the U.K. were to follow the officials at Summersville Lake then activities such as DWS and coastaleering could possibly see a ban in the not-too-distant future.
Tombstoning, or jumping off cliffs, has been in the news a lot recently, and the issue has been causing some major friction in the climbing community. 
2 comments:
I agree that DWS may suffer from the bad press tombstoning is getting, unless people begin to understand the differences. I believe a reasonable amount of DWS climbs end in tombstoning (not splashdowns but people actually jumping in) after the climb is complete. So there is a link.
The difference is the type of person taking part in DWS and those tombstoning. Climbers are considered athlete's whilst the media portrays tombstoners as anyone wanting to injure themselves.
I have linked to this post from tombstoning.com, my site discussing tombstoning.
Regards,
Dan
Thanks for your comment Dan. Iv placed your site as the link for Tombstoning.
Cheers!
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