Could you please check these two sentences, please?

1) Water chute and spring board don't have the same meaning, but I think I can use them both with "dive into the water".
2) Superman was both a superhero endowed with superpowers and a shy and insecure newspaper reporter.
He was named (called, are they synonyms?) Clerk by the Kent familiy, who adopted him afer he was sent to earth from the planet Krypton.

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1. You would use "dive" with "springboard" (or "diving board"), but you'd use "slide into the water" with "water chute." See the differences:

Water chutes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=water+chute&hl=en&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS379US379&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=EWtvTsnzOOPIsQKywpXXCQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBMQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643

Diving (spring) board:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS379US379&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=diving+board&oq=diving+board&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=28981l30326l0l30544l12l10l0l0l0l0l265l1567l0.4.4l8l0

2. Superman was both a superhero endowed with superpowers and a shy and insecure newspaper reporter.
He was named Clark by the Kent familiy, who adopted him afer he was sent to earth from the planet Krypton.