86 Out of Control

Out of control

As the man tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering wheel came away in his hands.

He waved desperately to his companion, who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes.

Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening when they were thrown violently into the sea.

The speedboat had struck a buoy, but it continued to move very quickly across the water.

Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore,