{"id":943361,"date":"2026-10-23T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943361\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:14:18","slug":"molly-carlsons-daring-red-bull-iceberg-backflip-released-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943361\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Carlson\u2019s Daring Red Bull Iceberg Backflip Released in Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Molly Carlson about to perform a backflip dive off an iceberg off Twillingate (Red Bull)<\/p>\n

It gained a lot of attention<\/a> when it was recorded back in June \u2013 now video of Canadian high diver and social media personality Molly Carlson<\/a> diving off an iceberg grounded near Twillingate has been released.<\/p>\n

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Carlson is an overall runner-up in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series<\/a> \u2013 and she became the first woman in history to dive from a freestanding iceberg.\u00a0 She trained ahead of time by learning how to ice-climb.<\/p>\n

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Molly Carlson surveying the iceberg she is about to dive from (Red Bull)<\/p>\n

The highly-organized event gained a lot of attention and concern in this province, where people are only too aware of the dangers of approaching \u2013 or climbing on top of \u2013 an iceberg.<\/p>\n

Huge chunks of ice that calved from Greenland glaciers pass by the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador each spring and early summer.<\/p>\n

While they attract a lot of interest and are a huge tourist draw, they are highly unstable and unpredictable as they melt and break apart.<\/p>\n

Carlson admitted the danger involved in a video released by Red Bull.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Molly Carlson about to perform a backflip dive off an iceberg off Twillingate (Red Bull) It gained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,82,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-943361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-sports","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}