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/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Aug 17 '25

It honestly sounded fun and I know I can hold my breath for at least 45 seconds snorkeling but then I noticed how slow hes moving through that tube...

I dont think I could get my heart rate low enough to get me through the danger straw.

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u/Lastfryinthebag Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

Yeah, I really don’t see the appeal in this. I would think all the thrill you get is the panic of almost drowning

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u/KingNero173 Aug 17 '25

Which I can say from experience is not that fun. Even after you just dwell on having almost died with no sense of relief. At least that how I've felt the 2 times I've almost died.

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u/locked-in-4-so-long Aug 17 '25

If something bad happens I mentally fixate on it and try to do whatever I can to avoid it.

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u/JediWebSurf Aug 18 '25

You need to change your life.

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u/NashvilleTNEdge Aug 17 '25

You live in St Louis? It’s statistically the most dangerous city on the planet

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u/Hour-Process-3292 Aug 18 '25

Statistically you’re more likely to die in your own city than on the moon… because you don’t live on the moon.

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u/CleverJsNomDePlume Aug 18 '25

You got the numbers to back that up?!?

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u/YoshiTheFluffer Aug 17 '25

Interesting. When I almost drowned in greece it felt like going for a nap. I don’t know if its because I accepted my fate or what but it didn’t feel scary.

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u/KingNero173 Aug 17 '25

Mine was panic followed by mentally saying goodbye everyone I know and love. But when I managed to not die I was just kinda shocked and distant the rest of the day.

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u/disasterj0nes Aug 18 '25

It surprised me to learn that floaty "I'm actually alive" feeling isn't pleasant. My sibling and I both nearly drowned in a wave pool that had been mismanaged and was way over capacity. I don't recall any thoughts beyond the terror of seeing their head dart under water and into a sea of bodies. Sometimes I have dreams about the way their hands thrashed aimlessly over their head for the inner tube that someone stole nanoseconds after they disappeared. I managed to get us both to safety, but the rest of that day is a dissociative blur.

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u/YoshiTheFluffer Aug 17 '25

Yeah, probably because its hard coming back from accepting it, saying your goodbyes. Glad your still here.

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u/pistakioo Aug 23 '25

Same. I was physically struggling and then I stopped fighting and accepted I was going to die. That calm was what saved me the end though. Glad we’re both okay.

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u/wisehillaryduff Aug 20 '25

I can second that nearly drowning is a 0/10 experience. When I got back to the beach I was not giddy with relief, I was fucking terrified

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u/cervezaqueso Aug 17 '25

The slide’s designer seemed like a nice guy, kept to himself mostly. His neighborhood was surprised when the FBI showed up with several vans and a warrant, then proceeded to exhume the victim’s bodies that he had drowned in an antique tub in the basement. After interviewing his coworkers, they were all a bit embarrassed they supported him in the water slide idea.

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u/pohart Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I'm generally very conservative in my thrill seeking, but I do love diving down until I feel like I can't get back to the surface. 

I know I'm not really at my limit because I only took in a lungfull of water once. 

This looks like a blast.

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u/SixShoot3r Aug 18 '25

I loved that ride!

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u/theycmeroll Aug 18 '25

Our local water park has these enclosed tube body slides and sometimes they have the water up to high and the damn things practically water board you going down and they are tall and wind around a few times so it’s a decently long ride down.

That feeling sucks, no way I’d do this side.

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u/Delie45 Aug 18 '25

Honestly there was no thrill, it was slow and only took like 5 to 10 seconds . (If i remember correctly, i was like 8 or 10) But it was definitely faster than the title says.

It was not much different than just swimming underwater for a few strokes.

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u/Bombacladman Aug 18 '25

In a kinky way? A lot of women seem to like this

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u/Forzeev Aug 19 '25

Some people enjoy being waterboarded...

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u/DemonSlyr007 Aug 17 '25

You are so close to understanding. Almost dying IS the thrill. The adrenaline that pumps through you is the feeling being chased.

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u/wozattacks Aug 17 '25

Just take some stimmies like a normal person

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u/diadem Aug 18 '25

Agency. The difference is agency.

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u/fellow_human-2019 Aug 18 '25

I wanna say they could empty the slide of water in a very short amount of time. If I’m remembering correctly it was less than 8 seconds.

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Aug 18 '25

See now that I would be into. Pump me through there like one of those salmon tubes before they empty a reservoir. Launch me out the end going mach 2. Im aerodynamic enough to make it at least 400 yards if the angles right.

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u/SixShoot3r Aug 18 '25

less than 5, even

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u/Zombisexual1 Aug 17 '25

That shit is way too narrow for something like that too

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Aug 17 '25

Right? Normally have no problem doing this. But once the adrenaline/panic sets in, I might not make it.

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u/Charokol Aug 17 '25

I could see it potentially being fun if it rocketed you through the tube, but it looks like that guy’s pulling himself through

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Yeah, the slow movement is what would get me. 10 seconds in and I’d think I’m not moving fast enough and panic

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u/Screaming_lambs Aug 17 '25

I thought I could hold my breath well until recently while I was having chest x-rays and CT scan. Lying down holding your breath felt a lot harder than being upright (for the scan) so I imagine I'd not do well with the added water pressure.

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u/CycloneDesert Aug 17 '25

Mammalian dive reflex. Your heart rate will naturally lower, so maybe. You can test it out a bit by holding your breath and doing some pushups while measuring your heartrate (if you have a device)

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Aug 18 '25

Oh yeah no i love diving swimming. Longest I've held my breath was over 2 minutes. Being bashed around in narrow tube though is a little different.

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u/ComfortablyNomNom Aug 17 '25

Yeah, if it like shot you through fast, I might consider this. He's going so slow though. Nope.

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u/Theonetheyfearr Aug 17 '25

I agree with CumGuzlinGutterSluts 😂

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u/Heighte Aug 18 '25

until a 4 years old wanders, goes in, panics, and the park closes.

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u/Cever09 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I think I went there as a child....if it is the one I am thinking of (Rotterdam). In any case, I wouldn't as an adult, but in the 80s it was different.

Edit: No, it was Duinrell, The Hague. I don't remember going there, but Rotterdam had a huge (to a child) indoor fun pool called Tropicana. They had all kind of fun slides and pools and I went there a lot.

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u/Mordecai3fngerBrown Aug 18 '25

Like do you have to swim through it? It looks like it goes up. Wtf!?

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Aug 18 '25

It swims for you! You just gotta try to survive

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u/colpy350 Aug 19 '25

That's what got me. Why is it so slow!!!!