Mr Price became the first ever totally blind water-ski jump world champion in 1987.

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That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.

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Blair also is known in Navy circles for once trying to water-ski behind the destroyer he skippered, the USS Cochrane.

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In Cumbria, blind world water-ski champion Gerald Price was presenting the same report to the Lake District National Park Authority in Kendal.

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Mr Price, from Stockport and a founder member of the British Disabled Water-Ski Association, says Windermere is regularly used by the British disabled team for training purposes.

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Two control lines, generally 60 to 90 feet long, lead from the sides of the kite down to a padded bar about twice the length of a water-ski towrope handle.

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If you look around, you see the cameras are ubiquitous, dangling from the mouths of surfers, held up by spectators and strapped to the helmets of Jet Ski-zipping water rescuers.

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The three year old used to ski down that hill, skate on the frozen water, and wander off on animal trails.

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The morning haze had burned off, and in the noon light the brackish water appeared deceptively lovely, its surface undisturbed except for a single Jet Ski carving a white wake whose exhausted wavelets lapped at the riprap at the side of the road.

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Craigavon- Northern Ireland Water Depot, Unit 41, Seagoe Industrial Estate, Craigavon, Co Armagh, Craigavon Golf Ski Centre and Lough Neagh Discovery Centre.

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