It takes its name from the four fixed objects - buildings, antennae, spans and earth - which divers use to take off.

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An antenna, which is 40cm across and 15cm high, is firmly embedded in a 4.5 tonne slab of 300 million year-old sandstone from Yorkshire which in turn is fixed almost three metres into the earth.

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