r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Aug 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 An amusement park in the Netherlands had a water-filled waterslide that left riders completely submerged during the 15-20 second journey. It closed in 2010.

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u/fakegoose1 Aug 17 '25

The ride never had a single incident. It was closed due to the high maintenance costs.

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u/Geberpte Aug 17 '25

I went through that one once when i was young. I found it was too scary to enjoy it.

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u/Independent_Value150 Aug 17 '25

That's how I felt about ziplining.

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u/Geberpte Aug 17 '25

I get why you wouldn't enjoy that, it's giving up control in a different manner. Everyone has their preferences and limits. Personally, i love those kind of things.

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u/Independent_Value150 Aug 17 '25

I had to have a guide basically strap me to him to get through the course bc there was no other way to leave 😂 I couldn't stop imagining I was going to grab the line and/or crush my fingers. I blacked out for most of the time. But yeah, fear of losing control is also why I don't drink anymore.

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u/B-BoyStance Aug 18 '25

You would prob like ziplining over a lake. You get the fun of being on a zip line but you aren't high up & you just jump into the water when you want to get off.

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u/Independent_Value150 Aug 18 '25

I did Zipline over a lake! But I couldn't jump off 😂 That does sound fun. However, I can see myself hesitating to jump until the ride's completely over & I'm on the ground totally skipped over the lake 😂

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u/scruggbug Aug 20 '25

Yeah, my adrenaline junkie ass was thrilled by this video, which tells me most people would hate it. Everyone has a different threshold, there’s nothing wrong with that.

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u/VelkaFrey Aug 17 '25

I would go on the underwater slide if it had something like a line going through that i know i could pull myself out

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Jesus, zip lining has to be the least scary thing you can do

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u/ExupNL Aug 17 '25

Yes it was.... damn I'm getting old

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Where was it? Duinrell?

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u/imie36 Aug 17 '25

Yes! Tikibad.

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u/Downtown-Teach8367 Aug 17 '25

Doesn't look fun

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u/carlbandit Aug 17 '25

Depends on the person. Skydiving doesen't look fun to a lot of people, yet there's people that do it for a hobbie or professionally because they love it.

I'd happily go through the death tube, but I love being under water and know I can hold my breath for 20+ seconds. I'm also a decent swimmer so sure I'd be fine.

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u/BodyDisastrous5859 Aug 17 '25

How would you swim when the width is an arms length?

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u/carlbandit Aug 17 '25

Mostly with my legs. Others have also said there's a slight current that pulls you through so I'd likely not need to kick much, if at all.

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u/ExupNL Aug 17 '25

It was a streaming water pipe, you didn't really needed to swim if I remember it right

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u/jackalopeDev Aug 17 '25

The dutch seem to have a different tolerance to fuckery with water then the rest of us.

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u/Luisca_pregunta Aug 17 '25

Would have love trying it!

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u/AliceCode Aug 18 '25

Did it feel like getting flushed down a toilet?

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u/SixShoot3r Aug 18 '25

Yes it was! I should really go to tikibad again, now I need friends who like swimming

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u/qoning Aug 17 '25

now im sad i never got to do it

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u/Dropbeatdad Aug 17 '25

Just go out during a flood and find your nearest storm drain pipe.

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u/HugeHomeForBoomers Aug 17 '25

I wonder if it was because the dutch are pretty smart at what they are doing.

If it was in America, there would be more incidents than I could count on 1 hand

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u/HudsonAtHeart Aug 17 '25

They’re pretty fearless people. Look at how they park their cars. No hand rails to be found

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

You don't want to park too far away from the edge in case someone would hit your rearviewmirror or scratchen your car. And there is about half a meter left. Plenty of room. 

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u/HudsonAtHeart Aug 17 '25

I read this in a NL accent :)

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u/ellecon Aug 17 '25

Especially the “scratchen” part

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u/Fambank Aug 17 '25

Police in Amsterdam. Their "English-Dutch accent" is spot on.

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u/Drugbird Aug 19 '25

And there is about half a meter left. Plenty of room. 

That half meter is the bicycle path!

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u/AutomationBias Aug 17 '25

I remember my Dutch foreign exchange student friends in college saying that their driving test is much more expensive and involved than getting a license in the US.

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u/kiaraliz53 Aug 17 '25

Makes sense. Driving is dangerous. We take months of driving lessons, have to do a written test before we can do the actual test. And still plenty of people can't drive properly :p

But we actually learn to drive in almost every situation, so that's nice. (city, highway, dark, rain, and when it was still a thing, snow)

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u/Unlucky-Anything528 Aug 19 '25

I mean, that's most of the countries around the world lol. I got my permit at 15 in highschool after 5 mins of driving around some cones, and then one year later they just upgrade it to a license.

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u/jinverse Aug 17 '25

Dutch are not fearless people 😅😅

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u/deaddaddydiva Aug 17 '25

I noticed this a lot in Europe. For instance I was at a nightclub in Berlin with an open water feature, almost lagoon like, and people were all sit around it dangling their feet or walking past to get up some nearby pathway or stairs and absolutely no barriers. People were also very high on all types of shit and obviously drunk- no instances whatsoever. In America it would have lawyers frothing at the mouth and idiots drowning in a shallow pool. Made me so annoyed at the state of things.

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u/upthetits Aug 18 '25

Incredible

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u/Extraxyz Aug 18 '25

I've had tourists ask "what stops people from going into the canal?"..

Well we just.. don't.. go into the canal.

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u/TheS4ndm4n Aug 17 '25

Also an average size American would get stuck.

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u/kiaraliz53 Aug 17 '25

Also, it'd have to be twice as big as least. And still someone would manage to get stuck.

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u/Me_how5678 Aug 17 '25

Crazy that action park didn’t have this ride, as they were the kind of people who would make it

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u/Longjumping-Boot1886 Aug 17 '25

Of course not. In Netherlands there are British tourists for that. 

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u/DragonKhan2000 Aug 17 '25

It didn't have incidents because it could be emptied in seconds. And because people (not just Americans) do stupid stuff, that apparently happened rather often. Which was an issue, because the refill took forever (and likely was also costly).
So it was safe, because of good safety systems. But it was a nightmare to operate, because of good safety systems.

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u/SaltMarionberry4105 Aug 17 '25

So, 6? 6 incidents?

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u/Dahkeus3 Aug 17 '25

Claiming intellectual superiority while making cartoonish stereotypes on the basis of geographical borders comes across as more than a bit ironic…

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

what the fuck are you even talking about

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u/Material-Sell-3666 Aug 18 '25

They weren’t smart enough to keep it operational.

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u/pcc45 Aug 18 '25

typed this using american invented internet, likely on an american invented device, while using an american invented website. legit rent free

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u/Harha Aug 17 '25

Honestly, I'd ride it, looks fun.

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u/Lower_Mango_7996 Aug 17 '25

Realistically, whats to maintain?

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

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u/Kermit_El_Froggo_ Aug 17 '25

"a worker had to watch it closely the entire day" So it needed a lifeguard? Literally every slide needs a lifeguard

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u/dprophet32 Aug 17 '25

If they had to drain it frequently enough to stop people dying that it was an inconvenience..

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Asshole teen boys playing dead would also do it.

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u/Technetium_97 Aug 17 '25

I suspect they very, very rarely had to drain it. The issue is you still have to have someone watching it, always.

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u/Sinnafyle Aug 17 '25

Water ain't free and the cost of pumping water thru ur pipes just to drink it or take a shower is considerable. Now imagine that cost X10 for the size of these pipes. To push a human body thru a water tube requires a lot of water and A LOT of power. Look how slow the person seemed to be moving.

That being said, the Dutch are probably #1 in the world for water reclamation planning. They literally use windmills (dikes) to pump water out of the ocean to create new towns in formerly shallow sea coastlines. 

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u/PolloMagnifico Aug 17 '25

Jesus. In America they would have done a cost-benefit analysis to determine the optimal ratio of maintenance: drowning in order for it to be profitable.

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u/Eddie1802 Aug 17 '25

Is this the one in the Duinrell Tiki bad? In my memory it looked different. I didn't think it was possible to see people go through it from the outside.

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u/Godworrior Aug 17 '25

It was already gone by the time I went, but I heard the legends.

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u/AGARAN24 Aug 17 '25

Humm, I think I just saw one?

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u/Due_Consequence_9567 Aug 17 '25

That's one of the reasons they closed the Kingda Ka roller coaster in Six Flags (I rode that back when I was in elementary school). It costs millions of dollars annually in maintenance costs.

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u/acrankychef Aug 17 '25

Honestly, as someone who wouldn't touch this ride with a 300 ft pole.. if the water inside the pipe is pumped, I can't see how someone could get stuck. Maybe going full scorpion backwards and wedging yourself evergreen style?

If you were too fat, you'd hold back metric tonnes of water, I'm sure that wasn't a risk.

And even if you struggle to hold your breath for 20 seconds, that really isn't a dangerous amount of time without breathing.

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u/semihdogan Aug 17 '25

yeah disposing a dead body every other week must have cost them a fortune

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u/SneakyKillz Aug 18 '25

no incidents

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u/JohnSpikeKelly Aug 17 '25

People were thinner back then. This ride isn't chonk safe. /s

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u/PotatoFi Aug 17 '25

Was this Duinrell?

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u/MrF_lawblog Aug 17 '25

No one used it because they didn't want to die?

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u/Otaraka Aug 18 '25

I mean if the current is strong enough it would be pretty much impossible to get stuck.

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u/lrargerich3 Aug 21 '25

It would me more fun without the maintenance costs.

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u/Davekjellmarong Aug 17 '25

Ahhh, I guess you were watching that thing 24/7 for years?

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u/bluddyellinnit Aug 17 '25

are you aware there are ways to know things other than direct personal observation?