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You may have seen skydivers create fascinating shapes thousands of feet above ground, but this one might just beat all. A group of more than 200 skydivers from 21 countries came together to form a 100-way out facing diamond shape 18,000 feet off the ground. And after three days of multiple trials, the group beat a 99-way out-facing diamond record, which had been formed at Skydive Spaceland, Texas in 2008.

Watch the breathtaking video above, made by by Andrey Veselov from Skyphoto that captures the phenomenon with the team behind Sequential Games.

According to the group, this formation has already been tried twice in the past. The first one went really close but missed by one person. The second attempt was in 2010 in Eloy, Arizona, where the best jump still had 4 or 5 people out.

"We first came together this past Saturday and started doing small practice jumps," one of the skydivers, Brodsky-Chenfeod said."We began the record attempt Monday, and it was on our seventh attempt on Tuesday that we did it." The jump was successfully conducted in Perris, southern California.

Talking to Skydivemag, the event organisers mentioned that the 100-way out-facing diamond was built with the precision of a Swiss clock – or some would say German engineering - with perfect docks. This shape is now the biggest outfacing diamond ever built mid-air.