It may be coming about 25 years later than former diver Katura Horton-Perinchief would have liked, but the National Sports Centre Board of Trustees member believes the new Aquatics Centre can still serve a need in the community.Horton-Perinchief, who represented the Island at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, stood at the site yesterday where she hopes to inspire other youngsters to take up diving competitively. After all, diving in its rawest form is practised by Bermudian youngsters every summer.“It would have been wonderful to have it 25 years ago but it is here now and it is here for the youth of Bermuda to go ahead and exercise another realm for them to be able to achieve scholarships abroad and to be able to represent our country in the Olympic Games,” said the former star.“It’s a small sport, exciting and we already see small kids throwing themselves off rocks and bridges daily with the skill level that you don’t see anywhere else. I really would have loved to have grown up here in Bermuda and practised my sport, because at that time I had already been a competitive diver in Toronto for over two years and well on my way to progressiving towards elite status.”Horton-Perinchief has not competed for four years but is now a certified diving coach and judge and ready to give back to her sport.“I probably won’t be demonstrating but I absolutely will be coaching the future Bermuda divers,” she said.The dive platform will have four different heights, and while the highest level looks intimidating at first glance, Horton-Perinchief is confident youngsters will quickly adapt and become the next Bermuda Olympic divers.“That’s why we like five-year-olds,” she joked. “Kids really take to this because they have no fear and if we can foster the fact that they have no fear and are willing to take direction then we can take them very far in this sport.”Jumping off rocks and bridges is most youngsters’ first introduction to diving, now it can be done in a structured programme.“We do it naturally, and now we can teach them a safe way to do it and it is productive, so I’m really excited.” said Horton-Perinchief. “The pool in the diving world is huge and we can get these kids some scholarships. I really believe we can change some lives.”“They want me to open the pool but I think I probably need to go somewhere to train for it first.”The four platform levels range from three metres to ten metres which is the Olympic height. “The seven and a half and ten metres will be used in national competition and the ten metres in international competition,” she explained