Talk:Wentworth Falls (waterfall)

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Incidents and Accidents
Sunday 20 December 1987. Sean O’Malley went to the Blue Mountains with five other members of the Marrickville SES on Friday for a weekend camp. On Sunday, four of them, led by O’Malley, went down Jamison Creek but did not follow the Darwin Walk. Instead they waded and slid their way through the water. By the time they got to Weeping Rock, O’Malley was a long way ahead of his companions, but they were too busy negotiating the slippery rocks to notice. O’Malley went past Weeping Rock, across the National Pass track, over the fence, and slipped on Wentworth Falls. He plunged 91m to his death, on a ledge below. Blue Mountains Gazette 22/12/1987

27-year-old Paul Marshall, an English tourist from Leicester, fell 76 metres (250 ft) off the waterfall and died while paddling in a rock pool December 9, 2000.[3] Another English tourist, 20-year-old Josh Furber from Runcorn, slipped on rocks and died January 6, 2013 after falling 100 metres (330 ft) off the waterfall. He was seen by a witness "mucking around" on the slippery rocks with his seven friends, having climbed over the safety barrier. [4][5]

The top of the waterfall is now completely blocked off by a low metal mesh fence, which periodically gets knocked down by floods.Sitalkes (talk) 01:22, 18 December 2020 (UTC)