It was a hot and windy day in Rotorua on the 2nd of January. My family and I were at lake Rotorua enjoying the day and eating ice cream. I was 10. My mum had booked us a tandem tour to go parasailing.
As we were waiting for others to join, the instructor was explaining what to do while you are in the air. He was explaining this, while we were my mum and I was getting suited up. Finally, people came to accompany us. I was beyond the moon excited to go parasailing. When we were in the boat, all the people were getting wet because we were zooming to the middle. So we got to the area and my mum and I were getting attached to the parachute. We were in the air enjoying the nice, cold wind when we heard a TING!! My heart was pounding cause I thought were going to fall in that was what most of my brain was telling me and the other bit was telling me that it was nothing that always happened but I was VERY, VERY WRONG……….
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!! Dupuy! We fell in the water. The water was very frigid, almost like ice but in the antarctic. My mum and I were screaming so loud my mum was saying” everything will be okay”, but the thing was that I had a helmet on, but my mum didn’t tighten it enough so it was over my head. And I couldn’t see anything only I could only hear my mum screaming and the boat coming closer!
hear my mum screaming and the boat coming closer!
Basically what happened is the parachute was still attached to us so the wind gathered up in my parachute and it got too much and so we got launched across the lake and the boat was trying to catch us. This mishap happened twice until the boat finally caught us. Well, step 1 was over but step 2 wasn’t it was, getting on the boat. Well, the boat finally. The skipper put a ladder over the boat so we could climb up but then the guy who attached us to the parachute jumped in behind me to make sure I was still afloat, and to keep me safe.
My mum struggled to get up the ladder but when she did I scurried up it as well now we were on the boat and we were shivering!!! The skipper said we would go back to dry land. So, that’s what we did. As soon as we got off the boat I ran to my dad and hugged him tightly.
Turns out, somehow the rope attaching me and my mum together and also attaching us to the boat snapped so that’s why we fell. The next day, my dad said that he is going parasailing today with me and he “said no matter what we are doing parasailing!!!” So I said ok but they had closed it due to the wind. We went the next day and it was still closed for the same reason. The last day in Rotorua we went but the same thing again so they said that because that tragedy happened to me and my mum they could put us on the next jet boat trip for free but instead of just us two, me and my dad, they said they can put my entire family on as well for FREE!!! We went on the jet boat and it was awesome! That’s my memorable moment about parasailing!
Now that you’ve heard my story. If you were in my situation what would you do? My heart was pounding like an elephant running when were falling. Overall this experience was scary and I would not like to do it again.
