Читать книгу Into the Abyss. Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World онлайн

109 страница из 133

I motored round him and played out the water ski rope. Once he had grabbed it I took up the slack - until the rope was taught. At his shouted command, I gunned the outboard engine and the boat surged forward. Although he clung on manfully he didn’t get up. Of all the times I had taken first time water skiers out I had never seen anyone learn to get up and going very quickly.

After a few more attempts, he started to get up and then was trying to master the art of staying up. Having found this hard to do myself I realised how tough he would be finding it.

Bravely he persevered and after a while was able to stay up for longer and longer periods. After about 45 minutes of this rather arduous work he signalled that he had had enough. I pulled in the water ski rope and came alongside him. He pulled off the skis and handed them up to me and then pulled himself up over the tube into the boat.

The wind by now had picked up a bit and there was a bit of a swell to the sea. But I still thought I could ski in the conditions and pulling on the skis slipped over the side.