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  2. Parasailing - Wikipedia

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    Spinnaker is a recreational activity that is commonly mistaken as parasailing. Both of them allow people to ascend on the ocean by using the wind force against a specially designed canopy. Parasailing includes ascending, while spinnaker allows a person to swing at the front of the tow vehicle (i.e. a boat).

  3. Paragliding - Wikipedia

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    Another form of towing is static line towing. This involves a moving object, like a car or a boat, attached to a paraglider or hang glider with a fixed-length line. This can be very dangerous, because now the forces on the line have to be controlled by the moving object itself, which is almost impossible to do, unless stretchy rope and a ...

  4. List of water sports - Wikipedia

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    Parasailing, where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute Picigin is a traditional Croatian ball game that is played on the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shallow water, consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water.

  5. White-Miskell Act - Wikipedia

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    The White-Miskill Act for Parasailing. [1] is a law enacted by the legislature of the State of Florida in 2014 for the control of the sport of parasailing.It relates to commercial and recreational water activities prohibiting certain water activities within some areas and specifies the requirements for the operator of a vessel engaged in commercial parasailing.

  6. A parasailing excursion on a family vacation when I was ... - AOL

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    On a family vacation, we booked an excursion to go parasailing. We were all so excited to try it, but on the boat, I started to feel nauseated. I got sick while in the air and was horrified, but ...

  7. List of surface water sports - Wikipedia

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    Wakesurfing differs from other wake sports in that the boat does not tow a rider (continuously). The rider uses a tow rope to help them get up in the wake. After doing so, they drop the rope and then ride the wake as they would when surfing. The rider is also much closer to the boat than with other water sports such as wakeboarding.

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    "Under normal parasailing operations, it is the operation of the vessel, in particular the speed of the vessel, that creates the wind to lift the parasail into the air. The operator of the vessel ...

  9. Tubing (recreation) - Wikipedia

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    Towing a tube or tubes also requires a powered watercraft such a motorboat or personal watercraft as well as rope to tether the tubes to such craft. Tubes used for free-floating tubing have traditionally been true inner tubes, but commercially sold tubes for the same purpose are becoming common place.