As the motorboat picks up speed, the rubber tube being pulled through the water by a rope goes from bobbing in the water to floating more than a dozen feet in the air, with a man clinging to its top ...

July 14, 2006 — -- At the height of summer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday the recall of a type of kite tube, a large inflatable device that lets people ride behind a ...

And I'm Melissa Block, reporting the end of a fad maybe before you've ever heard of it. Yesterday the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a nationwide recall of a product called the Wego Kite ...

RALEIGH -- Following numerous reports of injuries, the enforcement division of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is warning the new, extreme water sport of kite tubing is potentially hazardous.

A 42-year-old woman knocked unconscious on Union Lake on the Fourth of July was kite tubing, a new form of water sport that is both thrilling and, according to some, dangerous. The woman, who has not ...

LITTLE ROCK, AR - The Army Corps of Engineers at Little Rock has issued a permanent ban on kite tubing on all Arkansas and Missouri lakes and the stretch of Arkansas River that are supervised by the ...

The U.S. Corps of Engineers has banned kite tubing, a new extreme water sport, on its lakes in Arkansas and Missouri. Kite tubing has caused at least two deaths on other lakes in Texas and Wisconsin, ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris. MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block, reporting the end of a fad maybe before you've ever heard of it. Yesterday the Consumer ...