Bail For Your Life

My family has a cabin in Fernie, BC, that we go to in winter and in summer. About a thirty minute drive from our door step is a lake called "Lake Koocanusa". It is a dammed lake that fills up at the start of every summer, and is drained at the end of the summer. We have a boat, and have had one for a while. I slalom, wakeboard, wakesurf, and tube behind it. Tubing is alot of fun because the boat pulls you along on an inflatable floaty tube, really fast! Normally, other water sports like the water to be calm and flat, but for tubing, it is best when choppy and bumpy. Anyways, one day last year, we were waterskiing and wakeboarding when we saw dark storm clouds at then end of the lake. The water started to get rough from the storm, so my brother and I decided to tube back to the boat launch, which was about a 10 minute boat ride down the lake, into the storm. So we get behind the boat, started it up, and headed down the lake. The water got increasingly more and more rough as we went along, so the fun and scariness also increased. Eventually, we were hitting 4-5 foot waves on this little tube. My dad wanted to get off of the water, so he started to speed up. My brother and I were catching air off of every wave. When the boat launch came in sight, a few boats drove in front of us and their wakes collided and created a massive wave, headed our way! Combined with the stormy wind, already huge waves, and these new ones, a 6-7 foot wave was charging towards our tube! My brother, being 4 years younger than me, started to freak out because "He didn't wanna die!" So we had to bail for our lives, and dove off of the tube through the wave to safety. It was a good thing we did too, because the tube was submerged under the water for a good 30-40 seconds, and we couldve been hurt badly! Now we have learned our lesson, and stay off of the water when storms hit.