Darren Taylor, known as Professor Splash, will try to land safely in one foot of water from 40ft. While most divers try to makes themselves as aerodynamic as possible, Mr Taylor stretches out his limbs and belly flops into the water

"I study a lot of video, and I transform myself into a different being. I become rock hard, I feel no pain," he said. "For your life's sake, jump straight up, jump out, and make damn sure you land flat enough to blacken your chest and legs. You must stay completely focused on your 'flight plan', or it could lead to your death. I never forget at anytime what could happen if this dive goes bad."

Mr Taylor, 47, from Denver, set the current shallow diving record of 35ft 5in, and is now attempting to go nearly 5ft better. He competed professionally as a high diver before realising that shallow diving offered him the chance to get into the record books. He plans three more "deadly" diving records before retiring at 50.

Mr Turner's record attempt will be broadcast from Hollywood on the Jimmy Kimmel show on US network ABC on Sept 12.

Lordy! That's today!

Too late Darren realised the pool was occupied.

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