Kite Tube DEATH

[AbunDiga909]

Anyone who is subscribed to the Yahoo! Hydrofoil Group chat list should have gotten a couple emails about this. Pretty scary stuff....

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[surroundsound64]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

DUDE!!!!!!! That is insane!!!! Did he really die?! lol He was so high on that last fall!!

[surroundsound64]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

Oop, sorry. I just read the article.

[jroyal]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

Poor guy. That skull and cross bones on the bottom of that thing is so appropriate. Adding stabilizer fins to that tube wouldn't be a bad idea.

[Nates78Ski]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

my buddies & i were @ a friends cottage last year after i convinced him to buy a "manta Ray" tube, similar to that one, we put like 150ft of line on it & went directly against the wind (as to avoid the crosswind),, & never go over 25-30 mph & i got like 30-35 ft in the air my friends say, one of them has it on his camera phone still i believe, i thought it was a good time until i saw that someone died from just 15 ft.

[Onthewater]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

surround, i do not believe that the video was of the person that died.

this was merely an accident, fall wrong wakeboarding and you could break your neck or another life threatening injury.

[AbunDiga909]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

Yeah, the vid isn't of the dead guy, but just what an example of what the falls are like on that thing...

[M3Fan]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

I still think we need to get one of these for the CC reunion... I'll see what I can do.

[Andrew]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

there is a message on the tube that says something like "don't go any higher than u are willing to fall"

that is complete crap. the rider has absolutely no control on the height. when the kite wants to go up it does, and it does it really really fast

[Andrew]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

yeah, a friend of mine just bought one of those. the first day out another friend (girl) fell from about 30ft up (she caught a gust of wind and had very good balance) when she got to about 30ft, the tube jerked and she fell. i swear it was the sickest thing that i had ever seen. i thought her left ribs were going to puncture both lungs. turns out she only had a nasty bruise and coughed up blood for a little while (which i thought to be very scary and tried to persuade her to go to the hospital, but she refused)

anyway, the things are great fun but at the same time EXTREMELY dangerous

[Andrew]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

after watching that "40ft" video, i change her height to 60 lol. that wasn't 40ft, but if it is she went much higher than that

[ScarletArrow]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

Yowers...that guy was just catapulted off of that thing!

[Hydrofoilmaniac]

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Here's a post I saw on the "Hydrofoil List":

"Going back about 8 weeks ago i watched this boat towing a Manta Ray in front of our shack.He took of flat out and then the manta ray took of and flew about 30 feet straight up and spat the bloke of big time.He hurt himself and got back into the boat.His mate then jumped on it and of they went.Flat out again spitting the second guy off hurting him as well.Well to top all this of a young girl about 15 years old jumped on it for a ride.I thought to my self this idiot better slow down for her,not.Again flat out,the manta ray shot up to about 35 to 40 feet,rolled over and spat her out.She hit the water so hard and was knocked unconscious,floating face down.It took about 30 seconds for the boat to return.They pulled her out and she came too.They then slowly motored back to the boat ramp and called an ambulance to take her to hospital.This all happened in a 1/4 mile. Stupid driver ,and dangerous toy"

[redelf75]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

There's not doubt. After reading these posts I'm sure of two things. I won't be buying any of these flying tubes, but if you want one, you better grab one quick, cause they're all going to bo of the market soon.

[ihaveansv211]

RE: Kite Tube DEATH

a lot of tubes out there now will do this same thing. we have a 10 ft diamter flat round tube. with one person on it, it will go 15 ft high easily, the only thing thats different is u cant control it like it looks like u can on the kite.