European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse At sixty Miles an hour the quintet leaves behind a Wake of Spray and a Trail of vapor that Clouds the Miami Skyline sea skiing by torchlight an old sport gets a new sea skiing is done at night in the Light of magnesium flares photographs by Charles in Florida is the Home of Sailfish girls in bathing suits and a very specialized kind of water skiing done at night by the Light of magnesium the exhibition sport evolved As a variation of the popular daytime water skiing per formed behind motor boats through the Bay areas around it started when someone suggested that water skiing could be tried at night if the skiers could hold the idea was a Good one but needed the major ingredient of a person who would be willing to hang onto a motor boat going sixty Miles an hour in pitch holding on to the Tow rope with one a hunk of White hot magnesium held High in the first to try the sport was Bruce often termed the worlds Foremost Parker recruited a team made up of has John and Ann Nagler and Guy Scott when they went into the team found its biggest problem was the Short lived burned for Only two in pitch Black even the experienced skiers on this fireman team had All towline Are on one boat and As the skiers could not see each other when the torches burned there was a Fine problem of avoiding there were some spills but nothing the two minutes the torches stayed lit proved Long enough for cameramen to record the ski jumper Bruce takes Oil grasping reins in one Torch in the on previous try the Torch went out but he landed he and Katy Turner practice during the 20
