I saw in the news that the Kawarau Jet in Queenstown has crashed.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534245

I must say I am not surprised. We went on the Kawarau jet in Dec 2006 and it was dodgy then.

Here is the blog I wrote at that time.

Jetboating Blog from December 2006

We took the Kawarau jet boat ride as it was based in the middle of Queenstown and had a mixture of lake and rapids. As we had both been jetboating before the 360s didn’t really scare us, but it was fun laughing at the other people screaming. And the driver did manage to drench us, it was freezing.

The scariest bit was on the rapids when we did a 360 and ran aground. It was lucky we didn’t tip over. The driver couldn’t get the boat started again. It kept sucking up stones into the jet. Meanwhile we are drifting out of control on the rapids. There is silence in the boat. I am not enjoying this one bit. Finally the driver had to drift out into deeper water and thank god he managed to get it started. I must say I lost all faith in his abilities after this and the rest of the ride wasn’t so enjoyable.

He commented that the river wasn’t as low last week when he took a tour out. Surely they should check out the state of the river before taking people out.