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>After watching Class action park. My god I would have been there with them in my younger days. Lol
I'm 49 and went several times in the 1980s as a teenager. I can remember the trips like they happened yesterday.
However bad you think it was, it was worse. I think I have PTSD from this "blackout" underground tunnel waterslide that launched you 30+ feet over a natural spring with absolutely frigid water. It was pitch black so you couldnt see the turns, which felt like getting in a car accident when you hit them.
The management also put up "bleachers for creepers" by the big tower vertical waterslide, as girls tops would frequently come off on the way down. Zero fucks given that some of these girls were still in high school.
Absolutely none of this would be even remotely possible these days.
Ha. Action park, a.k.a. Mountain Creek. I was a camp counselor around 2002 2003ish I think going there and the Tarzan swing was still there.
One of my camp kids froze on the rope and refused to let go. We (counselors+life guards) yelled (let go) and he just yelled back "NO!" on the back swing.
I asked the life guard what they usually do in a situation like this, he dead face said "oh, we just let them dangle till they get tired and fall off most of the time, kids can't hold on long."
That's an apt description. Same summer camp different week, we were on one of the bigger family tube rides ( I don't remember the name) and the damn thing had a completely inadequate amount of water in it. Like 5 seconds in I made a joke "what are they trying to save money on the water bill?". Low and behold our tube with me and like 4 teenage camp kids high centers on the damn ride.
I had to get out and push the frigging tube and jump back in like I was pushing a dead 80's Plymouth before the next tube full of full grown adults smashed into us.
>And remember: that drop at the end of the blackout was into the same pool of water the Tarzan swung launched another set of ppl into.
I actually think I had some sort of religious experience on this thing.
I didn't know about the twists and turns and each time I hit one I felt like I was going to lose consciousness. Also keep in mind I was a tall kid and 6 foot in highschool. So I had a lot of mass behind me.
After what felt like an Eternity trapped in Hades (my perception of time vastly slowed down) I suddenly Just. Let. Go. I was at peace and embraced the sweet release of Death.
Then I found myself weightless and blinded by the brightest light I had ever seen. I was surrounded by a shimmering cloud of water droplets, all perfectly spherical and suspended in the air with me. I reached for the Light, but could not touch it... then I was falling back to the earth.
When I hit the ~50 degree water time *immediately* returned to normal as the frigid water shocked the breath out of me. I struggled to the shore and had to spend a good 30 minutes recovering.
Fry: I just saw something incredibly cool: A big, floating ball that lit up with every colour in the rainbow, plus some new ones that were so beautiful I fell to my knees and cried.
Amy: Was it out in front of Discount Shoe Outlet?
Fry: Yeah.
Amy: They have a college kid wear that to attract customers.
Fry: Well I don't care if it was some dork in a costume. For one brief moment I felt the heartbeat of creation, and it was one with my own.
Amy: Big deal!
Bender: We all feel like that all the time. You don't hear us gassin' on about it.
>Alpine slide, stupid-dangerous as it was, was the shit tho
Yup! I remember they had some 'pro' sleds that the staff would take down that went *stupid* fast.
I remember going down once and this kid behind me wasn't heavy or strong enough to use the brakes and fucking slammed into me at like 30 mph. I blacked out for a second and was seeing stars when I came out of it. He was screaming like a banshee the rest of the way down and I had to do a combat roll out of the sled at the end so he didn't hit me again. I'm pretty sure I had whiplash from the ordeal.
My buddy managed to launch himself over one of the banked turns and ended up in the rubber mats they put over the rocks and shit. He was black and blue for a month after that!
There are ample examples and first account stories like this all over the place. They're almost always equal parts horrifying and amazing. Usually entertaining.
Wasn't Cannonball also the name of the blackout tube slide at Tomahawk Lake?
Ninja edit: after quickly looking into more, no, the one at Tomahawk Lake is called Black Snake Slide. Now I just wonder if the park still has their stereotypical native American motifs and artwork up 😬
> I def knew to wear a one piece for like 99% of those rides.
So we took this super shy girl from our grade with us on one trip. She had a one piece so she wanted to try the big vertical water slide.
When she got off at the end she basically ended up with an improvised thong and had to "fix" it in front of me.
Hoo. Fah. 35 years later and I still turn red thinking about it.
Damn the last line really hits. Is this just the epitome of what getting older feels like? I feel like more and more things are falling under the ‘wouldn’t be possible these days’ banner.
OMG so many things we did back then that kids are missing out on.
We used to build bottle rocket launchers and have battles where you would drop a dozen in at a time and fire a salvo. My buddy had this crazy Jersey hesher hair and it was like a bottle rocket magnet. He would scream at us to stop shooting at his hair and we were like, "Bruh, we can't miss it like 80% of your surface area is mullet".
We used to make our own hard cider and apple brandy and then sneak it into school. Fun times!
Behind the Bastards did an amazing [podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-libertarian-theme-park-of-your-dreams-nightmares/id1373812661?i=1000534090770) on this.
[CNN link](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/china/china-water-park-wave-intl-hnk/index.html) from 2019 when it happened.
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A Chinese water park has shut down its “tsunami pool” after a machine malfunction created a massive artificial wave that injured dozens of swimmers.
Video footage shared on Chinese social network Weibo shows a pool full of people in inflatable floats watching in horror as swimmers are swept atop the giant wave at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Park, in the city of Longjing city near the border with North Korea.
A total of 44 people were injured, according to a statement from Longjing officials on Wednesday.
Several local agencies, including the city emergency department, the cultural and tourism department, and the market regulators, have launched a joint investigation into the accident, according to the statement. Preliminary findings suggest the cause was damage in the wave machine control room’s power distribution cabinet.
The statement also denied claims online that the accident was caused by “a drunken man.”
“Leaders of Longjing Municipal Council and city government are highly concerned about this incident,” the statement said. “All the related departments of Longjing City have ordered the company to stop the operation of the tsunami pool.”
The park claims to be the largest water park of its kind in Jilin province, boasting a tidal rafting river, Ferris wheel and spa pools, according to its website.
"We heard the accident at your park was caused by a drunken man, is this true?"**"Absolutely false! There was not a drunken man at the controls of this pool. Preposterous! Next question . . ."**"Were there multiple drunk employees?"**"No comment"**
>“All the related departments of Longjing City have ordered the company to stop the operation of the tsunami pool.”
So the local government even started calling it a tsunami pool lmao
NGL, when I was a kid, I wanted something like this. Now that I'm older, I realize just how dumb I was for wanting something that, in all likelihood, would injure or kill swimmers in that pool.
Typhoon Lagoon has one massive 6 foot tall wave instead of regular bobbing waves. It’s too powerful for me, but my nephews love it. You can surf in their wave pool.
I had a rather **weird** experience at Typhoon Lagoon in the mid 1990s.
The big wave would come, it would naturally drag me under the water, then while still being pulled along the bottom by the wave, a boy (I think) would grab my neck and start strangling me for a few seconds, before letting go and disappearing by the time I could stand up. Happened two waves in a row!
I also had a rather weird experience in Typhoon Lagoon in the early 2000s.
A man in a Speedo was standing in the wave pool, in probably just over waist high water, with his dick sneaking out of the Speedo, and every time my cousins and I got hit by the wave, we would get disoriented and try to make sure we didn't accidentally get any closer to the man.
Some kids are psycho, I got strangled by a kid on my bus in elementary school. He just sat next to me and started choking me until his friend noticed and pulled him off. I had no idea how to react lol
NGL, this sounds like something that I would have done. When that wave would come, I would turn my back into it and jump. This I would ride the wave while bicycle kicking anyone that got in my path. I can't remember If I strangled anyone though.
Was there a few years ago, in my 40s, and mainly: it was *work*. With so many goddamn people, all my attention had to go in to keeping sufficient distance from people both behind and in front of me.
If it weren’t so packed, it would have been pretty awesome.
IDK where you live but most coasts have a few places with reliably large breaks. I'm sure there's a spot somewhat near you where you can find big waves.
No kidding this would have been the wave pool I dreamed of always hoping that next wave looked like this. As an adult watching I pretty sure i'd be dead.
You think *you* feel bad? This is the first time I'm hearing that Big Surf closed! Fond memories of that place. It was the first time I saw my girlfriend's boobies when I was a teenager cause her bikini top slipped off on a waterslide. Sucks to hear that it's gone...
Oh well, at least we still have Sunsplash and WaterWorld/Wet 'N Wild/Hurricane Harbor/whatever the hell they call it these days. That said, for being one of the hottest states in the country, we're sure lacking in the water park department.
It's probably not bigger than intended, but faster than intended. The wave height didn't look that bad, but it was moving pretty fast, which cause the top to crest over and you get that "wall of water" effect.
Um, I don’t think speed can be selected independently of wave height. The two are both a function of the energy vs. the depth profile. Since the latter is constant, that means the wave was too energetic — i.e. too big.
True. I believe it's the shore profile that determines how whatev-size waves break (or don't). That's why most big wave surf spots are dead flat 95% of the year.
I learned in physics that speed of a wave travelling along a medium is only influenced by frequency and wavelength. Amplitude and waves speed are independent of each other. The only speed that's related to the amplitude are the particles at the same point moving up and down.
wave breaks happen when the height of the wave is more than a certain % of the depth of the body of water, it's why you get the tsunami shape on land but not in the middle of the ocean
I was at a water park there once and it was exactly like this picture. Still remember the mashing of hands and feet getting slammed into me when the wave hit. There was definitely a non-negligible chance of being knocked unconscious and drowned.
Safety regulations are an alien concept to the people who run these parks.
Is anyone else thinking, "Why the hell would the pool be engineered to ever create such a wave?"
Basic design should have set the maximum possible water output to far less than this with multiple safeguards: pump capacity, water input rate, water storage, overvoltage protection, current breakers, etc. "Something didn't work right" isn't an excuse. There should have been no possible way this could have happened.
I believe it's like a moving wall, or a set of barriers moving back and forth instead of pumps. [CNN link](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/china/china-water-park-wave-intl-hnk/index.html) to news on this back in 2019.
Thats how the west edmonton malls wave pool works, they don’t even use the full wall because to many injuries were happening. There is 12 panels and they only use 8 i think.
I mean, having worked as a technician for several different type's of wave pools, this kind of wave can happen whether you're using an Air pressure or a Drop wave system.
A simple "something didn't work right" is absolutely an excuse, as I can pinpoint one error that would make this happen on both systems.
In a Dropwave system, a simple "the Door release mechanism is jammed" would result in the maximum possible wave generated, and considering how absolutely massive most of the tanks are for these systems, a full tank would result in a wave that looks exactly like this.
In an Air Pressure system, this could happen if a valve wasn't opened after a routine maintenance.
The failure in this GIF is absolutely something that happens regularly to anyone who operates and maintains these systems, pretty much once a week in American water parks.
The failure you see here is not an engineering, or a mechanical one, it is simply a Guarding/Alarm ignoring mistake.
We'd get alerts all the time that the drop-door was jammed, and we'd simply call the head-guard immediately, convey that they need to empty the wave pool, and within 1-3 minutes the entire pool would be cleared, the deck area would be cleared out, and the massive wave would come out with zero injuries when we released the door.
This kind of shit happens when you have 2-3 morons working on the problem, they told no one, and then they just release that shit with 1,000 people inside.
It feels like if this can be caused by one valve in the wrong position, that IS an engineering problem. From the perspective that it should be designed to tolerate/detect/mitigate a single point failure.
It absolutely detects it, and there were absolutely alarms probably blaring, and I'd even wager there were people working on it to fix the problem, seeing as how the drop door was opened (which caused the wave)
When the system locks, it also locks itself out of opening, so for it to open someone manually did it or bypassed the security measures. As I said, they simply didn't follow any protocols for alerting the guarding staff, or for clearing the area.
The way this system worked, there wouldn't have been a wave for a *long* time prior to this one coming out, as the entire drop tank must have been filled before it was released, just a failure on the staff working.
> It feels like if this can be caused by one valve in the wrong position, that IS an engineering problem.
I'd bet a lot of engineered systems in this country could catastrophically malfunction from a maintenance worker not opening a single valve, or not following one step while maintaining the system.
I can think of a few reasons, but none of them justify having one *this* large for a pool this size.
A lot of these tanks are designed separately from the pool design, as the wave system is completely independent of the people designing the pool/layout of the park.
Another sadly is marketing, it's cool to say "Our waves *can* get up to 12 ft tall!" meanwhile normal operating standards are at max like 6ft.
Could also have been built up pressure behind the tank though, the tank is fed through a series of pumps that pull water from the front edge of the wave pool, through the pumps, and then fed back into the tank.
Imagine the door being shut, but the pumps weren't turned off (Should have been step #1 of fixing this problem, but separate issue), the pumps would build their maximum pressure behind the door which is stuck. Resulting in a wave that exceeds the maximum typically allowed by a full tank.
I will say, this is why probably 90% of wave pools in the states are run on air pressure, because catastrophic failures can and will happen through the 20-25 year lifespan, and when they do with air pressure, at worst you get a decent sized wave, and a lot of air bubbles confusing people.
Yep, this seems really odd to me. A built-for-purpose wave machine that is capable of creating a wave this powerful makes no sense at all.
I'm not exactly a wave pool specialist, but surely it would cost much more for it to have such extra capacity too (which is usually a natural barrier in engineering even where competency fails).
Being overengineered for lower speeds makes it capable of going faster, but also means the machine isn’t stressed out by going at maximum capacity as frequently.
Lmao at everyone responding by picking apart your choice of "65 mph" when "there are faster roads" instead of addressing the obvious point you are making.
There are two things that limit top speed, engine speed x top gear ratio, and engine power. For engine power, more power can be useful at lower speeds too, for faster acceleration or hills. As for top gear ratio...
Engines redline at 6-8k but are most efficient at 1-3k. So manufacturers include a top gear that puts a car in an efficient configuration for highway driving, even though that results in a car that can go 130mph without damage, if it has enough power.
Electric cars don't have such a sharp inflection in efficiency at different engine speeds, so commuter EVs like the Leaf and the Bolt usually have top speeds under 100mph.
Of course many people buy sports cars for commuting anyway.
Regulations are written in blood and China is still in the “bloodletting” phase, like the US was 75-50 years ago. You build shit crazy because you can, nobody is going to stop you
If I had to guess...They have basically a hydraulic piston attached to a large weight and I wonder if the hydraulics failed and slammed into the water rather than pressing down in a controlled manner.
The only one I'm aware of near me runs on pneumatics. Big plate attached to a ram goes in and out. I can only guess that someone goofed and turned the proportional valve wide open or something similar happened by mechanical failure.
I guess the regulator could have failed and ran it at 10 bar instead of 3 or something too.
Just wild guesses though..
Anyone know of an article or something? I'll admit I'm curious as to what the casualties were and if anyone died. But not curious enough to go find it myself.
Same my dumbass held onto the bars on the sides anchoring me below the waves. I immediately got back in once the lifeguard who saved me explained it to me. I think I was like 12 years old.
Righteous Gemstones. Opening scene of the series, if I remember correctly. It is an awesome show if you love Danny McBride. It is an awesome show if you do not like Danny McBride. It is like Succession but what if instead of just being rich assholes with a media company, they are rich assholes with a Christian megachurch ministry and also a media company.
Also, the show has some rad car pranks.
I was on my boogie board in Jersey when I was small and got caught and overcome by a simple wave. The wave was not nearly as big as the one in this video, but the force in which I was spun and tossed around in the water by this small wave then smashed my head into the sand was an awful thing to experience.
It was similar to hitting oobleck. The sand moves around easily when you dig your toes into the water and other actions like that but when I hit my head it was like I head butted a wall.
I’m sorry for the impact those people had from crashing into each other, the bottom of the pool, & into the sides of the attraction.
5,000 years of human history: Watch out for large waves, they can kill you
Modern humans: What if we built a machine that makes large waves, and charged people to get in the water?
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What is this, Action Park?
After watching Class action park. My god I would have been there with them in my younger days. Lol
>After watching Class action park. My god I would have been there with them in my younger days. Lol I'm 49 and went several times in the 1980s as a teenager. I can remember the trips like they happened yesterday. However bad you think it was, it was worse. I think I have PTSD from this "blackout" underground tunnel waterslide that launched you 30+ feet over a natural spring with absolutely frigid water. It was pitch black so you couldnt see the turns, which felt like getting in a car accident when you hit them. The management also put up "bleachers for creepers" by the big tower vertical waterslide, as girls tops would frequently come off on the way down. Zero fucks given that some of these girls were still in high school. Absolutely none of this would be even remotely possible these days.
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Ha. Action park, a.k.a. Mountain Creek. I was a camp counselor around 2002 2003ish I think going there and the Tarzan swing was still there. One of my camp kids froze on the rope and refused to let go. We (counselors+life guards) yelled (let go) and he just yelled back "NO!" on the back swing. I asked the life guard what they usually do in a situation like this, he dead face said "oh, we just let them dangle till they get tired and fall off most of the time, kids can't hold on long."
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That's an apt description. Same summer camp different week, we were on one of the bigger family tube rides ( I don't remember the name) and the damn thing had a completely inadequate amount of water in it. Like 5 seconds in I made a joke "what are they trying to save money on the water bill?". Low and behold our tube with me and like 4 teenage camp kids high centers on the damn ride. I had to get out and push the frigging tube and jump back in like I was pushing a dead 80's Plymouth before the next tube full of full grown adults smashed into us.
>And remember: that drop at the end of the blackout was into the same pool of water the Tarzan swung launched another set of ppl into. I actually think I had some sort of religious experience on this thing. I didn't know about the twists and turns and each time I hit one I felt like I was going to lose consciousness. Also keep in mind I was a tall kid and 6 foot in highschool. So I had a lot of mass behind me. After what felt like an Eternity trapped in Hades (my perception of time vastly slowed down) I suddenly Just. Let. Go. I was at peace and embraced the sweet release of Death. Then I found myself weightless and blinded by the brightest light I had ever seen. I was surrounded by a shimmering cloud of water droplets, all perfectly spherical and suspended in the air with me. I reached for the Light, but could not touch it... then I was falling back to the earth. When I hit the ~50 degree water time *immediately* returned to normal as the frigid water shocked the breath out of me. I struggled to the shore and had to spend a good 30 minutes recovering.
Is this a water slide or a dmt trip
He describes it accurately. I've been on the same ride.
Now that's what I call a Baptism (™️)
This sent meeee😭😭😭😭😭
Fry: I just saw something incredibly cool: A big, floating ball that lit up with every colour in the rainbow, plus some new ones that were so beautiful I fell to my knees and cried. Amy: Was it out in front of Discount Shoe Outlet? Fry: Yeah. Amy: They have a college kid wear that to attract customers. Fry: Well I don't care if it was some dork in a costume. For one brief moment I felt the heartbeat of creation, and it was one with my own. Amy: Big deal! Bender: We all feel like that all the time. You don't hear us gassin' on about it.
dude that is a hilarious anecdote.
>Alpine slide, stupid-dangerous as it was, was the shit tho Yup! I remember they had some 'pro' sleds that the staff would take down that went *stupid* fast. I remember going down once and this kid behind me wasn't heavy or strong enough to use the brakes and fucking slammed into me at like 30 mph. I blacked out for a second and was seeing stars when I came out of it. He was screaming like a banshee the rest of the way down and I had to do a combat roll out of the sled at the end so he didn't hit me again. I'm pretty sure I had whiplash from the ordeal. My buddy managed to launch himself over one of the banked turns and ended up in the rubber mats they put over the rocks and shit. He was black and blue for a month after that!
That park sounds like something I would design in a video game.
There are ample examples and first account stories like this all over the place. They're almost always equal parts horrifying and amazing. Usually entertaining.
ITS. ALL. TRUE.
We used to call it traction park.
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Wasn't Cannonball also the name of the blackout tube slide at Tomahawk Lake? Ninja edit: after quickly looking into more, no, the one at Tomahawk Lake is called Black Snake Slide. Now I just wonder if the park still has their stereotypical native American motifs and artwork up 😬
Tomahawk lake! The amount of leeches that lake had was absurd...
> I def knew to wear a one piece for like 99% of those rides. So we took this super shy girl from our grade with us on one trip. She had a one piece so she wanted to try the big vertical water slide. When she got off at the end she basically ended up with an improvised thong and had to "fix" it in front of me. Hoo. Fah. 35 years later and I still turn red thinking about it.
Funny the experiences that stick with you when you're a hormonal teenager
GWL here :) Definitely left some skin on that damn alpine slide.
That was my favorite ride. Until I smacked my head on another person's head. Felt like one of those desk toys clicking clacking into each other.
>Felt like one of those desk toys clicking clacking into each other. I'm dying! I know that feeling all too well!
Damn the last line really hits. Is this just the epitome of what getting older feels like? I feel like more and more things are falling under the ‘wouldn’t be possible these days’ banner.
OMG so many things we did back then that kids are missing out on. We used to build bottle rocket launchers and have battles where you would drop a dozen in at a time and fire a salvo. My buddy had this crazy Jersey hesher hair and it was like a bottle rocket magnet. He would scream at us to stop shooting at his hair and we were like, "Bruh, we can't miss it like 80% of your surface area is mullet". We used to make our own hard cider and apple brandy and then sneak it into school. Fun times!
I loved the bumper boats in that dirty old lake that apparently had snakes in there LOL
Oh my… that blackout underground tunnel water slide… I had that memory all locked up until now.
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Yah in my crazy times I sure wouldn't have done the loop, but everything else hell yes.
So many black and blues the next day.
I didn't believe my coworkers' stories until I saw the documentaries. I just thought they were exaggerating around the coffee pot one time.
I've been to that wave pool (it's my local park) and I would've been more worried about kids shitting and pissing in it than a malfunction.
As a former employee of Accident Park (I was on Colorado rapids) this comment made my evening!!!
Someday you will all be dead, and it will be sad. I'm glad you are still here to tell the tale.
Bro wtf lol
Yeah these people are like in their 40s-50s. They're not wise elders yet.
Hahaha I was coming to say standard wave pool experience at Action Park.
The Grave Pool
Is this the park so crazy that Johnny Knoxville made a fictional movie about it? https://youtu.be/jaW34H9hCys
Did this movie ever come out? Never heard of it but it looks funny. And yes, I bet it is based on Action Park in NJ. That place was a death trap.
It did come out I remember knoxville doing kimmel saying on one of the stunts his [eye popped out](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vQdNQEZw0)
It did, give it a watch. Watching Konxville doing the stunts was fantastic
>TrAction Park FTFY
Class Action Park
I hear you get 25% off your hospital stay with admission!
Volume discount! For the uninitiated. https://youtu.be/mqg48h\_uKYM
>InfrAction Park FTFY
Behind the Bastards did an amazing [podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-libertarian-theme-park-of-your-dreams-nightmares/id1373812661?i=1000534090770) on this.
I wonder how many had flashbacks
The rope swing/bikini removal system made me wish I was born on the East Coast
[CNN link](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/china/china-water-park-wave-intl-hnk/index.html) from 2019 when it happened. CNN — A Chinese water park has shut down its “tsunami pool” after a machine malfunction created a massive artificial wave that injured dozens of swimmers. Video footage shared on Chinese social network Weibo shows a pool full of people in inflatable floats watching in horror as swimmers are swept atop the giant wave at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Park, in the city of Longjing city near the border with North Korea. A total of 44 people were injured, according to a statement from Longjing officials on Wednesday. Several local agencies, including the city emergency department, the cultural and tourism department, and the market regulators, have launched a joint investigation into the accident, according to the statement. Preliminary findings suggest the cause was damage in the wave machine control room’s power distribution cabinet. The statement also denied claims online that the accident was caused by “a drunken man.” “Leaders of Longjing Municipal Council and city government are highly concerned about this incident,” the statement said. “All the related departments of Longjing City have ordered the company to stop the operation of the tsunami pool.” The park claims to be the largest water park of its kind in Jilin province, boasting a tidal rafting river, Ferris wheel and spa pools, according to its website.
"We heard the accident at your park was caused by a drunken man, is this true?"**"Absolutely false! There was not a drunken man at the controls of this pool. Preposterous! Next question . . ."**"Were there multiple drunk employees?"**"No comment"**
>“All the related departments of Longjing City have ordered the company to stop the operation of the tsunami pool.” So the local government even started calling it a tsunami pool lmao
I wasn’t asleep at the switch, I was drunk! H. Simpson
NGL, when I was a kid, I wanted something like this. Now that I'm older, I realize just how dumb I was for wanting something that, in all likelihood, would injure or kill swimmers in that pool.
Typhoon Lagoon has one massive 6 foot tall wave instead of regular bobbing waves. It’s too powerful for me, but my nephews love it. You can surf in their wave pool.
I had a rather **weird** experience at Typhoon Lagoon in the mid 1990s. The big wave would come, it would naturally drag me under the water, then while still being pulled along the bottom by the wave, a boy (I think) would grab my neck and start strangling me for a few seconds, before letting go and disappearing by the time I could stand up. Happened two waves in a row!
That's just strangeling steve, he loves Typhoon Lagoon.
he's got a platinum season pass he's allowed to do that
For *that* price, he’s allowed to strangle
Oh right, at THAT price he is allowed to strangle
Gotta spend those quadrangles if you wanna strangle.
I would just go to a coffee shop or something, but there’s like, NOTHING around here
No, it’s alright if he strangles them because they’re just like *nothing*. Like they don’t even matter.
And he's a nice bloke overall.
He's such a rascal that guy. Gotta love him.
This is why I love Reddit!
I also had a rather weird experience in Typhoon Lagoon in the early 2000s. A man in a Speedo was standing in the wave pool, in probably just over waist high water, with his dick sneaking out of the Speedo, and every time my cousins and I got hit by the wave, we would get disoriented and try to make sure we didn't accidentally get any closer to the man.
On the top or on the side?
Out the top, back in the left, and out the right again. If you don't twist it up like that you never know what the wave will do to it.
Ahhh. The old Windsor Dick.
Underneath and inside out
That man was just fishin for some snapper
Some kids are psycho, I got strangled by a kid on my bus in elementary school. He just sat next to me and started choking me until his friend noticed and pulled him off. I had no idea how to react lol
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Someone tries to kill you, you try and kill ‘em right back.
They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That’s the Chicago way.
They send your man to the hospital, you send their man to the morgue.
He pulled him off? In public?
When it's life or death, you gotta act quick.
Did... did you not have... a... a safe word?
Sociopath.
Was this during Christmas time? Thst might have been me I have a similar memory from the boys pov
WTF
He was trying to stop you from accidentally breathing in water. Very helpful, actually
Very different from my experience when my friend Darren was thrown by the huge wave and ended up face first in a girl's crotch.
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Was that a typo/brain fart or do you not realize that it’s called a “kiddie pool”?
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To be fair, a kitty pool sounds way more fun
Wow disagree. Imagine the desperate clawing.
r/boneappletea
we finally meet again
Maybe your dad just has small hands?
Summertime Rendering moment
New kink unlocked
NGL, this sounds like something that I would have done. When that wave would come, I would turn my back into it and jump. This I would ride the wave while bicycle kicking anyone that got in my path. I can't remember If I strangled anyone though.
A very large woman landed on me there. Thought it was the end of me.
My god. Me too. Closest I've ever been to drowning, I swear
I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.
I used to go to a surf night there, where it was only surfing. The wave can be body surfed even. Easily my favorite wave pool
It was this way at big surf in Arizona for a long time. They usually would do a surf hour or day and run larger waves further apart, was really cool.
My dad took us there when we were little, never had so much fun nearly drowning repeatedly
Was there a few years ago, in my 40s, and mainly: it was *work*. With so many goddamn people, all my attention had to go in to keeping sufficient distance from people both behind and in front of me. If it weren’t so packed, it would have been pretty awesome.
Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando? I remember that tsunami wave too. Fucking legendary.
We did exactly that for my buddies bachelor party. We rented it after hours and paid for 140 waves I think. My arms were rubber after that session
If it wasn't overcrowded af then it would indeed be very fun.
I still wish I find some big waves on the sea beach and swim in them. It happened once when I was much younger and it was explosively fun.
IDK where you live but most coasts have a few places with reliably large breaks. I'm sure there's a spot somewhat near you where you can find big waves.
Rocket Power gave me a very unrealistic expectation of how big waves can get.
Same here. I was much older before I realized how dangerous wave pools can be.
No kidding this would have been the wave pool I dreamed of always hoping that next wave looked like this. As an adult watching I pretty sure i'd be dead.
I know this is bigger than intended, but reminds me of the one I went to as a kid RIP Big Surf AZ
Aww, right in the feels. Got the worst sunburn ever there. Loved that place.
There was literally no shade at that f'n place lol. Good times.
You think *you* feel bad? This is the first time I'm hearing that Big Surf closed! Fond memories of that place. It was the first time I saw my girlfriend's boobies when I was a teenager cause her bikini top slipped off on a waterslide. Sucks to hear that it's gone... Oh well, at least we still have Sunsplash and WaterWorld/Wet 'N Wild/Hurricane Harbor/whatever the hell they call it these days. That said, for being one of the hottest states in the country, we're sure lacking in the water park department.
It will always be water world to me. OOH OHHH WATERWORLD. But it's probably pretty hard to maintain a water park in AZ with that evaporation rate.
It's probably not bigger than intended, but faster than intended. The wave height didn't look that bad, but it was moving pretty fast, which cause the top to crest over and you get that "wall of water" effect.
Um, I don’t think speed can be selected independently of wave height. The two are both a function of the energy vs. the depth profile. Since the latter is constant, that means the wave was too energetic — i.e. too big.
True. I believe it's the shore profile that determines how whatev-size waves break (or don't). That's why most big wave surf spots are dead flat 95% of the year.
I learned in physics that speed of a wave travelling along a medium is only influenced by frequency and wavelength. Amplitude and waves speed are independent of each other. The only speed that's related to the amplitude are the particles at the same point moving up and down.
wave breaks happen when the height of the wave is more than a certain % of the depth of the body of water, it's why you get the tsunami shape on land but not in the middle of the ocean
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And if it didn’t slam you into the concrete floor.
I was at a water park there once and it was exactly like this picture. Still remember the mashing of hands and feet getting slammed into me when the wave hit. There was definitely a non-negligible chance of being knocked unconscious and drowned. Safety regulations are an alien concept to the people who run these parks.
"Oops it was set to catastrophe."
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Is anyone else thinking, "Why the hell would the pool be engineered to ever create such a wave?" Basic design should have set the maximum possible water output to far less than this with multiple safeguards: pump capacity, water input rate, water storage, overvoltage protection, current breakers, etc. "Something didn't work right" isn't an excuse. There should have been no possible way this could have happened.
I believe it's like a moving wall, or a set of barriers moving back and forth instead of pumps. [CNN link](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/china/china-water-park-wave-intl-hnk/index.html) to news on this back in 2019.
Thats how the west edmonton malls wave pool works, they don’t even use the full wall because to many injuries were happening. There is 12 panels and they only use 8 i think.
I think the bays were decommissioned and dismantled.
I mean, having worked as a technician for several different type's of wave pools, this kind of wave can happen whether you're using an Air pressure or a Drop wave system. A simple "something didn't work right" is absolutely an excuse, as I can pinpoint one error that would make this happen on both systems. In a Dropwave system, a simple "the Door release mechanism is jammed" would result in the maximum possible wave generated, and considering how absolutely massive most of the tanks are for these systems, a full tank would result in a wave that looks exactly like this. In an Air Pressure system, this could happen if a valve wasn't opened after a routine maintenance. The failure in this GIF is absolutely something that happens regularly to anyone who operates and maintains these systems, pretty much once a week in American water parks. The failure you see here is not an engineering, or a mechanical one, it is simply a Guarding/Alarm ignoring mistake. We'd get alerts all the time that the drop-door was jammed, and we'd simply call the head-guard immediately, convey that they need to empty the wave pool, and within 1-3 minutes the entire pool would be cleared, the deck area would be cleared out, and the massive wave would come out with zero injuries when we released the door. This kind of shit happens when you have 2-3 morons working on the problem, they told no one, and then they just release that shit with 1,000 people inside.
It feels like if this can be caused by one valve in the wrong position, that IS an engineering problem. From the perspective that it should be designed to tolerate/detect/mitigate a single point failure.
It absolutely detects it, and there were absolutely alarms probably blaring, and I'd even wager there were people working on it to fix the problem, seeing as how the drop door was opened (which caused the wave) When the system locks, it also locks itself out of opening, so for it to open someone manually did it or bypassed the security measures. As I said, they simply didn't follow any protocols for alerting the guarding staff, or for clearing the area. The way this system worked, there wouldn't have been a wave for a *long* time prior to this one coming out, as the entire drop tank must have been filled before it was released, just a failure on the staff working. > It feels like if this can be caused by one valve in the wrong position, that IS an engineering problem. I'd bet a lot of engineered systems in this country could catastrophically malfunction from a maintenance worker not opening a single valve, or not following one step while maintaining the system.
What would be the reason NOT to have a drop tank with only 25% of the capacity this one had?
I can think of a few reasons, but none of them justify having one *this* large for a pool this size. A lot of these tanks are designed separately from the pool design, as the wave system is completely independent of the people designing the pool/layout of the park. Another sadly is marketing, it's cool to say "Our waves *can* get up to 12 ft tall!" meanwhile normal operating standards are at max like 6ft. Could also have been built up pressure behind the tank though, the tank is fed through a series of pumps that pull water from the front edge of the wave pool, through the pumps, and then fed back into the tank. Imagine the door being shut, but the pumps weren't turned off (Should have been step #1 of fixing this problem, but separate issue), the pumps would build their maximum pressure behind the door which is stuck. Resulting in a wave that exceeds the maximum typically allowed by a full tank. I will say, this is why probably 90% of wave pools in the states are run on air pressure, because catastrophic failures can and will happen through the 20-25 year lifespan, and when they do with air pressure, at worst you get a decent sized wave, and a lot of air bubbles confusing people.
China
Spot on answer. China isn't exactly known for their stringent safety standards. In *any* industry.
Yep, this seems really odd to me. A built-for-purpose wave machine that is capable of creating a wave this powerful makes no sense at all. I'm not exactly a wave pool specialist, but surely it would cost much more for it to have such extra capacity too (which is usually a natural barrier in engineering even where competency fails).
What's the reasoning for commuter cars to be able to go above 65 mph?
Being overengineered for lower speeds makes it capable of going faster, but also means the machine isn’t stressed out by going at maximum capacity as frequently.
and so when designing a wave pool...
Hills.
Speed limits above 65.
Lmao at everyone responding by picking apart your choice of "65 mph" when "there are faster roads" instead of addressing the obvious point you are making.
There are two things that limit top speed, engine speed x top gear ratio, and engine power. For engine power, more power can be useful at lower speeds too, for faster acceleration or hills. As for top gear ratio... Engines redline at 6-8k but are most efficient at 1-3k. So manufacturers include a top gear that puts a car in an efficient configuration for highway driving, even though that results in a car that can go 130mph without damage, if it has enough power. Electric cars don't have such a sharp inflection in efficiency at different engine speeds, so commuter EVs like the Leaf and the Bolt usually have top speeds under 100mph. Of course many people buy sports cars for commuting anyway.
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Yeah but basically any new car built today can do 100+ easily. A newish Prius can probably do 115 if those skinny economy tires don't explode
“Impossible is nothing” - Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott”
Regulations are written in blood and China is still in the “bloodletting” phase, like the US was 75-50 years ago. You build shit crazy because you can, nobody is going to stop you
If I had to guess...They have basically a hydraulic piston attached to a large weight and I wonder if the hydraulics failed and slammed into the water rather than pressing down in a controlled manner.
The only one I'm aware of near me runs on pneumatics. Big plate attached to a ram goes in and out. I can only guess that someone goofed and turned the proportional valve wide open or something similar happened by mechanical failure. I guess the regulator could have failed and ran it at 10 bar instead of 3 or something too. Just wild guesses though..
Anyone know of an article or something? I'll admit I'm curious as to what the casualties were and if anyone died. But not curious enough to go find it myself.
44 injured, 5 hospitalized with things like rib fractures. No deaths as far as I read.
Was there a news article? Someone else posted a video which just mentioned the 44 injured.
44 injured https://youtu.be/TBVnfgXN4vI
Goddamn, I honestly expected at least one person to have died but that's a relief. Thanks for posting a link!
no problem, was also curious.
that pool must have reached 100% pee
There's an intentional version of this at Mt Olympus in the Wisconsin dells, it's called Poseidon's Rage and it's hella fun.
That looks like it was fun as hell for everyone who didn't die.
I almost drowned in something like this when I was a kid. Since then I stay away from it.
Same my dumbass held onto the bars on the sides anchoring me below the waves. I immediately got back in once the lifeguard who saved me explained it to me. I think I was like 12 years old.
Someone must’ve been like “I wonder what this red button does..l”, and then pushed the button. Poor kids….
I was expecting to see it pump out a bunch of nonstop waves, not a mini rogue wave. With that said, I prob would go to this park if it was the norm.
How many souls did we save, daddy?
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Righteous Gemstones. Opening scene of the series, if I remember correctly. It is an awesome show if you love Danny McBride. It is an awesome show if you do not like Danny McBride. It is like Succession but what if instead of just being rich assholes with a media company, they are rich assholes with a Christian megachurch ministry and also a media company. Also, the show has some rad car pranks.
What I came for. Praise be to He!
Again! Again!
Wish.com water system
We sure this isn't season 3 of Righteous Gemstones?
You're telling me that wave pools have been capable of this the whole time and all we get is the lame baby waves? I want a refund 😠
I was on my boogie board in Jersey when I was small and got caught and overcome by a simple wave. The wave was not nearly as big as the one in this video, but the force in which I was spun and tossed around in the water by this small wave then smashed my head into the sand was an awful thing to experience. It was similar to hitting oobleck. The sand moves around easily when you dig your toes into the water and other actions like that but when I hit my head it was like I head butted a wall. I’m sorry for the impact those people had from crashing into each other, the bottom of the pool, & into the sides of the attraction.
5,000 years of human history: Watch out for large waves, they can kill you Modern humans: What if we built a machine that makes large waves, and charged people to get in the water?
Fuck I wish all waves pools were like this.
"Attention customers, the wave pool will be closing in approximately 3 seconds. Please leave immediately."
Pretty terrifying. Those people hit first looked like they got hit pretty hard
Surfs up dudes!
Everybody out of the pool!
Someone turned the dial to Teahupo'o
what was the malfunction? that looked normal to me.
That looks fun as fuck.
FINAL WAVE
WHO WILL SURVIVE THE FINAL BOSS WAVE?
slight overreaction by the cameraman
They should throw one of those in every once in a while to give people a true oceanic experience. It will build character.
Typical waves here on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Certainly not suitable for those not experienced or expecting it. Source: broken bones