Aliek WickJiam, the one-time crack Sydney • swimmer, holds one record which is unlikely to be taken from him, nays a Smith’s Weekly paragraphist. That is the world’s highest dive (205 ft made at Deep Rock carnival, Melbourne, in 1918. By some error the diving tower, which was intended to be only 100 ft, was built up to 205 ft. Wickham did not realise what he was up against till he climbed to the top of the structure and saw the water beneath him. However, he pulled himself together and brought off a perfect “shallow.” He remembers nothing after leaving the tower. He was unconscious when picked up, and his costume was found to have been torn clean off, Jack Wren gave him fl 00 to buy a. new one.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 4
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