MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diver with an Old Bridge tattoo on his chest waits for the beginning of the 448th Old Bridge diving competition in Mostar. The Old Bridge, a symbol of Mostar, is very common tattoo among Mostarians divers, who are united in love for their city and emerald Neretva River.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Boy watches from a distance as a thrill-seeker prepares to take a jump for tourists from the Old Bridge.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Two divers stands on the parapet of the Old Bridge behind the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the national anthem is struck up.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JUNE 2016: For some the Neretva River brings joy and refreshment during the long hot summer days in Herzegovina. Novice divers often practise on a 10-metre-high diving board before they muster up the courage to take their first dive from the 24-metre-high Old Bridge.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diver Ermin Sarić - Germa looking out the window onto the Old Bridge bustling with tourists. He has been diving since he was 15 years old, and spends almost every day on the Old Bridge, diving and collecting money from tourists for the jump.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diver Goran Fink, the brother of the late, great diver Jadranko Fink, gives instructions to his son Edi Fink before the opening of the 448th diving competition. This was Goran’s farewell to competitive diving; he took his last jump, though not as part of the actual competition.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: A thrill-seeker after a jump from the Old Bridge.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diver warming up before the opening of the 448th diving competition.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JULY 2014: A boy before his first jump from the Old Bridge.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2015: Man executes the Mostar Swallow, a headfirst dive into the Neretva. "When you take a dive from the Old Bridge, you've joined the ranks of the bold" - Emir Balić, the legendary Swallow of Mostar.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diver with an Old Bridge tattoo on his thigh waits for the beginning of the 448th Old Bridge diving competition in Mostar. The Old Bridge, a symbol of Mostar, is very common tattoo among Mostarians divers, who are united in love for their city and emerald Neretva River.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JUNE 2016: For some the Neretva River brings joy and refreshment during the long hot summer days in Herzegovina.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2015: Diver prays before the jump from the Old Bridge during the 449th Old Bridge diving competition.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2015: Diver warming up on the Old Bridge before the beginning of diving competition.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JULY 2014: 16-year-old Edin Čolaković dives from the Old Bridge for the first time. "When you take a dive from the Old Bridge, you've joined the ranks of the bold" - Emir Balić, the legendary Swallow of Mostar.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2015: Diver Lorens Listo, eight-time champion, passes the remains of the original Old Bridge, which stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed in November 1993 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "In its absence, the Old Bridge quickly became a powerful symbol of Bosnian multiculturalism because its destruction was understood as an attack on Bosnia’s pluralistic tradition. The new Old Bridge, which was rebuilt in 2004, has also become a symbol of peace and reconciliation because its reconstruction is compared to the rebuilding of metaphoric bridge between Bosnia’s divided peoples." - Emily Makas, Cornell University. The bridge was placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 2005.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Divers warming up on the Old Bridge before the beginning of the 448th diving competition.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JULY 2014: Diving with torches. Every year, a fiery group of Velež Mostar FC fans Red Army closes the competition.