Wife Films as Husband, Friend Are Swept to Sea After Cliff-Diving Goes Wrong

[babylonsister]

Just so sad.


Wife Films as Husband, Friend Are Swept to Sea After Cliff-Diving Goes Wrong
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The family of Daniil Gagarin, the man in the video, are waiting on emergency visas and PCR test results, desperate to get to Spain in time for his cremation later this week.
AJ McDougall
Breaking News Intern
Published Sep. 27, 2021 10:49PM ET
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A Russian fitness coach’s rescue attempt of a friend trapped in churning Mediterranean waters turned deadly after both were swept out to sea—as the entire tragedy unfolded on video, captured by the coach’s distressed wife.

The horrifying footage subsequently went viral on Russian social media, even as the coach’s family has been scrambling to secure permission to travel to Spain for his cremation.

On Sept. 23, Daniil Gagarin, 30, traveled to a stretch of jagged cliffs known as La Zorra cove along the Costa Blanca with his wife, Darya Gagarina, and a woman they were friendly with, Finnish fitness instructor Emma Mönkkönen.

The video that Gagarina, 24, shot had been meant to capture the group’s cliff-diving feats. Instead, it became a terrifying chronicle of Gagarin and Mönkkönen’s final moments.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. No one in their right mind

would jump into an ocean in those conditions.

[Demovictory9]

4. Plus 1 and RIP

[Polybius]

2. So horrible

[struggle4progress]

3. "Hey! Let's jump in where those waves are smashing against these jagged rocks!"

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. "Yeah, what could possibly go wrong??"

"It'll be fun!!!

[PoliticAverse]

15. Yeah, I just don't see why there was any expectation that would end well. n/t

[roamer65]

6. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[NutmegYankee]

7. Accident or suicide?

I mean come on - the sea was bashing up against the rocks. How stupid were these people?

[3Hotdogs]

8. ANSWER: Very stupid.

[LisaL]

9. He managed to do it, apparently more than once.

So suicide clearly wasn't the goal. But it was stupid to assume that a friend would manage to do it as well.

[Raine]

10. Heartbreaking 💔 hearing the wife's horrified screams

when she realizes he's gone.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. It looks more like their heads were likely bashed...

... into some rocks, which knocked them unconscious and they quickly drowned.

I was expecting to see them slowly getting pulled away into the distance by sea currents, based on the article, but the video made them look even more foolish.

I'll do the obligatory candle, nonetheless.

[rpannier]

12. And no one should be surprised

That said
R.I.P.

[canetoad]

13. Yep. Lots o'recs

Rec.

[cstanleytech]

14. I would not do that even on a bet as it does not look to be a safe area to swim in at all.

[Patton French]

16. That's not "cliff diving"

Jumping into churning, rocky, dangerous suff is not cliff diving.