Diving: Iffland and Popovici make historic splash in underground Romanian salt mine

FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women’s 20m High Diving Rounds - Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea - July 23, 2019. Rhiannan Iffland of Australia competes. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

(Reuters) - Four-times world champion Rhiannan Iffland and Constantin Popovici took cliff diving to a new extreme when they launched themselves from 120 metres underground in the Salina Turda, one of the world's oldest salt mines in Romania.

In a first-of-its-kind diving feat, the duo jumped from the walls of the cone-shaped mining area into the underground high-salinity lake in the depths of Transylvania.