NEW WATER SPORT.—T. Torrens, a London skin-diver, wading ashore at Chichester Yacht Basin, Sussex, after a recent trial of aqua-sledging. He is carrying the aqua-sledge and looking through the unbreakable perspex viewer which is fitted to the bottom of the craft. Officially called C-Skate, a surface and underwater vehicle, it is towed in the same way as a water skier, although the user rides the vehicle in a horizontal position and can control the movements up, down, left, or right by a simple differential gearing system worked by one hand. The craft, constructed of three-ply fibre-glass, weighs 281b unladen, is 4ft 7in long, and has a wingspan of 3ft 4in. The planes are foam-filled and will take pressure up to 200ft under water.

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 19

NEW WATER SPORT.—T. Torrens, a London skin-diver, wading ashore at Chichester Yacht Basin, Sussex, after a recent trial of aqua-sledging. He is carrying the aqua-sledge and looking through the unbreakable perspex viewer which is fitted to the bottom of the craft. Officially called C-Skate, a surface and underwater vehicle, it is towed in the same way as a water skier, although the user rides the vehicle in a horizontal position and can control the movements up, down, left, or right by a simple differential gearing system worked by one hand. The craft, constructed of three-ply fibre-glass, weighs 281b unladen, is 4ft 7in long, and has a wingspan of 3ft 4in. The planes are foam-filled and will take pressure up to 200ft under water.