Was this inevitable?

Very sad news:

A teenager New Year’s Day fun turned to tragedy after he jumped from a 24m waterfall and never surfaced.

The 18-year-old was with friends at Wairua Falls, about 30km from Whangarei on Friday.

The group had been at the falls for several hours and jumped from the top into the pool below.

The falls are estimated to be 24m high and the water beneath about 3m deep.

Constable Sue Grocott said three teenagers – two boys and a girl – made the jump successfully, but the fourth teen “misjudged and landed awkwardly”. He did not surface.

Someone with a physics degree could work this out, but it seems to me that 24 metres (78 feet) is a hell of a drop, and that you are likely to sink more than three metres when you hit, if you don’t bellyflop.