Coasteering

Coasteering allows a person to move in the “impact zone” between a body of water and the coast where waves, tides, wind, rocks, cliffs, gullies, and caves come together.

The term was first used by Edward C Pyatt[2] as the combination of the words "mountaineering" and "coast"[3] and was adopted by Andy Middleton in Wales in 1985, who then made it a business idea.

[4] Although all aspects of coasteering have been informally practised by people for a very long time,[1] if only as a means of access to a cut-off cove beyond a headland, the term appears first to have been used in 1973.

In the late 1980s Andy Middleton of Twr-y-Felin Outdoor Centre developed it as a commercially guided recreational activity initially along the cliff coastline of St.Davids in Pembrokeshire in Wales.

[13] Impacting with the water surface at this velocity is capable of giving a person temporary paralysis of the diaphragm,[12] a compressed spine, broken bones, or concussion.