Sam Fricker talks about Lambton Diving Tower

Olympic diver Sam Fricker joins the campaign to keep Lambton diving tower open

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00:00Hey guys, Sam Fricker here, Australian Olympic diver and Commonwealth Games medalist, and I heard

00:04the terrible news that Lambton Pool is being closed to the diving clubs, which is devastating.

00:10That's where I started diving, it's where I come up and train, and coming into summer,

00:15that's where we get our best diving outdoors. Now, the reason the pool is closed is because

00:20Work Health and Safety said that the bars and the railings need to be put there, and we're all for

00:25safety, and it's a highly controlled environment with trained experts who run the sessions, and

00:31all they were asking is that they're allowed to use the pool until those extra railings are put on.

00:36Now, the pool's in the same condition it's been in for the last, you know, 30 or 40 years.

00:42Eric and Gillian Booker, who run Dive in New South Wales, even started diving there themselves

00:47many, many years ago. So, the pool's always been like this, and they've come in with these new

00:51pool requests for railings, which we're happy to put on, and I'm sure that they will, and all

00:56they're asking for is to have access to the pool so they can train their athletes for this

01:01competition season while they do that lengthy process of putting in these new railings. So,

01:07I'm devastated to hear that, at the moment, the pool's been cut back from having anyone dive

01:11on any other boards but one of them, and hopefully this can be sorted out very quickly.