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West Tamar councillors Julie Sladden and Rick Shegog jump in ahead of the Tasmanian Bombing championships at the Riverside pool.  Video by Phillip BIggs

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00:00Riverside's built for bombing. We've got a one metre platform, we've got a three metre deep end.

00:06It's just past time from, you know, 60 years ago when the pool was built.

00:11It's a place to come and bomb.

00:16We've got a rope set up, that's for height of the bomb.

00:18So that's one of our main things we're looking for is the splash.

00:21So what I did is I set it up four metres above the water,

00:25and the kids were just nailing that, so I put it up another metre to five.

00:29Now we've got our top rope at six metres above the water,

00:32so that's the main thing we're going to be looking at.

00:35That'll be our point system.

00:43From little kids from under the age of five right up to pensioners.

00:48It's just something that people have done here for a long, long time,

00:51so everyone wants to come and have a crack.

00:53We'll give you one point for that for effort, but didn't even hit the blue rope.

00:57That's why I'm not competing.

01:01Yeah, so I Google searched it.

01:03I couldn't find anything for a Tasmanian or Australian championships.

01:06The only thing I could come up with was a canoe championship in New Zealand.

01:10Saw what they were doing.

01:12Everyone was having such a good time.

01:15And then...

01:28Six metres of rope, it's a big bomb.

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