Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips.

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

We did five solid dives — they weren't amazing — but they were good enough. As well as we did at the worlds, it was tough to get up again.

It's a very complicated process requiring precision from design and engineering to manufacture and installation, and there's a lot of room for problems.

We used clay from here in New Mexico and used engineering principals to design a mug that could survive a high drop.