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How the world's best cliff divers make the switch from platform to rocks. The atmosphere is tense and quiet before the first training session off the pure rocks in São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores; the athletes are scanning the rocky take-off areas, the bumpy entry spots some 27m below, observing the waves coming in and leaving again, taking all the water with them and lengthening the fall for several meters. The relief however, grows with each dive gone well, and as more and more divers come up trumps from the water, the cheering on the surrounding rocks gets livelier.