Qualifying system
For individual diving the top twelve from the 2011 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2012 Diving World Cup will qualify a quota spot. For the pairs events the top three from the world championships, the top four from the world cup and the hosts qualify.
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Qualification timeline
Men's 3 m springboard
For the individual events, any one diver can only gain 1 quota place per event for their NOC.
Women's 10 m platform
^1 Only two athletes per nation can qualify, meaning if there are less than eighteen athletes the remaining quota spots will go to the additional pool.
References
Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA