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If you are performing a high dive, you can still reach the bottom and hurt yourself, YES. This is very unlikely for an experienced diver, not amateur divers can injure themselves.

Injuries from diving usually occur not by hitting the bottom of the pool but by hitting something before they enter the pool such as the platform or side or by poor entry.

Most proficient divers don't dive deep enough to hit the bottom of the pool. If they have a lapse of concentration then perhaps they could touch the bottom but rarely (if not never) would you find one who hits their head at the bottom.

Yes, you can suffer from concussion and die from diving if you hit an object hard. Olympic divers have been known to have such accidents. I'm not sure what the injury/death statistics are.

Realistically, no, but 12 ft. is potentially dangerous, it's right on the edge depending on the diver's mass and angle of entry. But, you would almost have to try by getting a perfect trajection and have your arms to the side at the same time. Usually your arms are in front to break the fall, for one thing.

Honestly no. You instinctively know when to stop when your in the water and you'll probably find that yes it may take some time to get used to and it may even feel a bit different but it's really not that different. I've swam in 25ft. Pools and it didn't feel any different at all. Good luck! You'll be fine as long as you have warm-ups you'll be good. Don't think too much into 3 less feet.

no longer as quickly as I've dived right into a pool, yet genuinely as quickly as I jumped off a diving board. Its a speedy rush to pull my pants up formerly I rose to the exterior. I wager the others who replaced into waiting to pass on the diving board observed it lol!!!

if there is no water,then yeah...