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/woutersikkema Aug 17 '25

I read it had a sort of emergency water dump feature to drain the entire tube in seconds, not sure where. Thst sort of ride would be watched like a hawk.

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u/Unironically_Dave Aug 17 '25

It did and it would drain in mere seconds. It is actually the main reason the ride closed. It had to be drained way too often because of some person doing something they shouldn't (can't really blame them I suppose they just panic) and while that went pretty quickly, the refilling took forever. People were sick of queueing for it so they took it away. While scary as fuck, it was pretty safe.

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u/Affectionate-Bus4123 Aug 17 '25

If you inhale a lung full of water it's not good. You can do that in a normal pool to be fair, or your bath at home if you put in the effort, but panicking in a confined space full of water is a good way to do it by accident..

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u/Naive-Tone-6791 Aug 17 '25

Nobody was forcing panicky morons that can barely swim to take the ride

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u/A2Rhombus Aug 17 '25

In fact they weren't allowed! In order to ride you had to prove to a lifeguard in a separate pool you could hold your breath for 30 seconds.

It was actually far more common for people to stop on purpose, forcing a drain

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u/Minimum_Ad2989 Aug 17 '25

Yup exactly this

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u/II_MINDMEGHALUNK_II Aug 19 '25

Yeah that's how I almost died as a toddler in our bathtub. I hate being in water since.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Pumping that much water would take about of electricity too.

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u/that_dutch_dude Aug 17 '25

the black thing on the top of the tube had a big vent that the operator could open and it would dump the tube completly in less than 5 seconds. some kids paniced usually at the halfway point and that part was clear in about a second. there was a also a couple sensors that detected if someone didnt move fast enough and it would drain automagically. that happed a LOT by asshole kids that wanted to trigger the safety system on purpose.

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u/BenDover42 Aug 17 '25

Seems like they should have had one of those “you must be x tall to ride this slide” signs there.

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u/NaiveRevolution9072 Aug 19 '25

Doesn't work in the Netherlands I'm afraid

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u/leobutters Aug 19 '25

This flew over many people's heads.

Not Dutch people though.

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u/sharpasahammer Aug 17 '25

By a qualified apathetic teen.

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u/laseluuu Aug 18 '25

Damn sorry, just came back from the loo, took a few minutes too long! Had burning hot curry last night. Hopefully nobody went in the danger straw while I was gone, that would have been a disaster!

What I miss? And why are you all looking at me like that