Ryan Bean went in head first. Off the Giganta ramp, forty feet up, into a body of water measured at three and a half feet deep. Death-diving thrill-seeker Ryan Bean will attempt a high dive off Nitro Circus' world famous Giganta ramp, forty feet tall, into a 3.5-foot body of water. The margin for error is the difference between a dive and a stop.
The stunt arrives as one of the new set pieces of the 2026 Nitro Circus 2.0 Tour. Nitro Circus framed it without embellishment. Going head first into 3ft of water — of course, the one and only Ryan Bean would do it for Nitro Circus. The house added a two-word verdict of its own: this isn't normal. From the top of the ramp the water reads as a thin line. Bean commits before the surface tells him anything useful, arms first, spine straight, the entry angle doing the work the depth cannot.
The set piece
The context is a production built on scale. Thrill Sports, P1 Live and RNC Entertainment announced the 2026 Nitro Circus 2.0 Tour presented by Ram Trucks, co-founded by action sports figure Travis Pastrana, featuring elite athletes and daredevils in Freestyle Motocross, BMX, Skate, Scooter, and everything in between. Bean's dive sits alongside other headline attempts. For the first time, Adam Jones, the most decorated Freestyle Motocross athlete, will attempt a 75-foot backflip breaking through a 35-foot wall of fire. Among all that engineering, Bean's stunt is the plainest and the most exposed: a man, a ramp, and water too shallow to forgive a wrong line.
The move also changes his address. Until now Bean worked alone, off cliffs, camera running, no crowd, no schedule. The Giganta dive is the arena version of the same instinct, performed on a fixed date in front of a paying house. The discipline is identical. The witnesses are new.
The trajectory
Bean has been rehearsing this relationship with shallow water for years. In November 2024 he invented the Kong drop to fronty, touching a rock face mid-fall to redirect himself into a front flip; it took three attempts to find the trajectory, and the only safe part of the pool below was roughly three feet across, with slanted walls closing in from both sides. He had already learned to enter a small target with no room to spare.
Then came the reach for size. In June 2025 he landed the biggest gainer of his career, a backflip-rotating cliff dive from 160 feet, hitting the water at around 70 mph. A gainer rotates forward off the takeoff, which meant Bean turned blind over the edge and spotted a landing zone he could not see when he left it. Travis Pastrana, Ryan Williams and Noah Gaffney praised it publicly.
Height taught him the leap. Depth taught him precision. On the Giganta ramp, both arrive at once.
