One boat, 145 water skiers.
That was the combination that set a world record for the most water skiers being towed by a single vessel, off the coast of Tasmania, in Australia.
ABC reported the ages of the skiers ranged from 12 to 60, and that the 145 participants had to stay upright for one nautical mile to qualify for the record.
A tourist cruise ship did the heavy lifting, but it still took its two 1,550-horsepower engines 25 seconds to pull everyone up out of the water.
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