Blimp Tows Water Skier 6.9 Miles to Set World Record

Yes, that was a blimp towing a water skier across the surface of a Southern California lake. The Press-Enterprise reports the blimp towed skier Kari McCollum for 6.9 miles at Lake Elsinore on Tuesday. The newspaper says that's a new record, according to Philip Robertson, an adjudicator with Guinness World Records. The old mark for a water skier being towed by a blimp or airship was nearly 5 miles, the AP reports. The companies sponsoring the event included T-Mobile and AirSign, an aerial advertising company. See more photos in our gallery. (More Guinness World Records stories.)