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On a stormy night in the South Pacific, four sailors and three dogs huddled in the cabin of a bucking catamaran. They were adrift, nearly 200 miles off New Caledonia, with no engines or radio ...
Learning to fly gliders in a 2-33 and working on pattern tows when my instructor surprises me with a tow rope break at 300' AGL. Maddow Blog | Among the problems with Trump’s ‘free’ luxury ...
While doing so, authorities said, the jet skier struck the tow rope and sustained serious injuries. Authorities took the jet skier to the hospital.
Heny and Tim Harris, co-founder and chief executive officer of autonomous vehicle company Swift Navigation, in late 2023 used the opportunity to found Parasail, which emerged from stealth this week ...
The new rope tow, a hang-on and get-pulled mechanism announced last week, spans 1,000 feet along “Swifty Park”, and is expected to provide welcome relief from boot packing or a trip to the base.
Below Big Sky Resort's Instagram posts, skiers and snowboarders clamored for a rope tow in the ski area’s terrain park. Once a running joke, those requests have now been made a reality.
A rope mishap during paragliding at Keri plateau in Goa resulted in the deaths of a 27-year-old woman tourist from Maharashtra, Shivani Dabale, and a 26-year-old operator from Nepal, Suman Nepali.
“I’m so excited to have the rope tow first run and I was going to get to go up the lift first,” said Marilyn Cochran of Cochran’s Ski Area. Cochran, as her namesake suggests, is a part of ...
Kinetic recovery ropes are a game changer for serious off-roaders. Unlike flat tow ropes, they harness the unique power of kinetic energy to smoothly pull stuck vehicles out of tough spots with ...
A gang of thieves in Valencia, Spain, attempted to steal three valuable statues by latching them to a car with a tow rope on August 12. CCTV footage shows the bungled theft as the rope snaps ...
A glider pilot died in a crash after his tow-rope became detached from another aircraft during take-off, a report has found. The 47-year-old, who had 131 hours of flying experience, died on 16 ...