There are already water slides taller than this in other countries. The current tallest water slide, Kilimanjaro in Brazil, opened in 2002, and is 163 ft tall. Icarus has a near clone at Perfect Day at Cococay in the Bahamas that is just 10 ft shorter with nearly the same layout, and has operated since 2019 without incident. This ride will be perfectly safe. Verruckt, the waterslide that you are probably thinking of, was 167 ft tall and featured an airtime hill that was not engineered. It was built in-house and had fundamental design issues which lead to a fatality in 2016. Icarus is completely different, being a fully enclosed body slide with only a slight hill at the end which is too shallow to cause ejection
@@wheelgap don't get me wrong, I like the concept, but as I mentioned earlier, EVERY time they shoot for a record on water rides, someone has gotten killed on it. It's not a case of one or two rides, it's been dozens over the last 60 years. Action park was a big straw on the camel's back for a lot of us in the OABA and IAPAA. I'M counting the days.
@@FAFO4wisdom what rides are you talking about then? The industry has also made drastic changes from the 80s and 90s when Action Park and the Schlitterbahn parks were just hand making slides and hoping things would work. Now, firms like Whitewater West and ProSlide do extensive calculations on these structures to ensure that they are safe. The only major incident that I know of since the millenium was the Verruckt incident, which was created using the 80s / 90s technique of guess and check. That killed NBGS and Schlitterbahn, ruining their reputations forever and forcing sale or closure of all of their parks
@@FAFO4wisdom I can't find a ride accidents database. This law firm has a summary of some accidents: blumenshinelawgroup.com/water-park-injuries-and-deaths/ Looks like most issues in the past couple years have to do with the braking trough for body slides. If the water level is not high enough, you may not stop in time, or you will end up hydroplaning. With standard testing procedures and the correct tuning, this would not happen (and doesn't) regularly. Otherwise I am having a tough time finding specifically a water slide ride accident database. Most accidents I can find at water parks are from drowning in large pools, such as wave pools. Lifeguards often save most potential casualties, but every once in a while, lifeguards don't pay enough attention and someone will drown. To me, saying that we shouldn't build taller water slides because there are a small number of accidents is like saying cars shouldn't go faster than 60 mph because there are crashes. It is all about engineering and policy changes that make these activities (water slides, not cars) some of the safest "things" you can do at any time, as long as you can swim. I also forgot that the Meryal tower has a 260 ft body slide also from WhiteWater West. That opened back in November and I have not heard of any issues. This by comparison is nothing. Just, if you are going to say something inflammatory, please either a) be right and have sources to back up your claims, or b) acknowledge that you might not be correct and move on. You don't have to ride this ride! But millions of people will ride this ride over the next however many years, with a very minimal risk of injury, let alone casualty. MtO has had some issues with safety over their history, but that has come down to people disobeying rules, overcrowded pools, or maintenance policy failures on their wild mouse. The park has changed and grown since then and has had a spotless record for the past decade, and I expect this ride to be extremely safe
this is coming up so fast compared to sky striker
Seriously. Also sky striker is so EASY to assemble next to this!
Everytime someone pushes the height records on these waterslides, someone gets killed. How long until it happens on this?
There are already water slides taller than this in other countries. The current tallest water slide, Kilimanjaro in Brazil, opened in 2002, and is 163 ft tall. Icarus has a near clone at Perfect Day at Cococay in the Bahamas that is just 10 ft shorter with nearly the same layout, and has operated since 2019 without incident. This ride will be perfectly safe. Verruckt, the waterslide that you are probably thinking of, was 167 ft tall and featured an airtime hill that was not engineered. It was built in-house and had fundamental design issues which lead to a fatality in 2016. Icarus is completely different, being a fully enclosed body slide with only a slight hill at the end which is too shallow to cause ejection
@@wheelgap don't get me wrong, I like the concept, but as I mentioned earlier, EVERY time they shoot for a record on water rides, someone has gotten killed on it. It's not a case of one or two rides, it's been dozens over the last 60 years. Action park was a big straw on the camel's back for a lot of us in the OABA and IAPAA. I'M counting the days.
@@FAFO4wisdom what rides are you talking about then? The industry has also made drastic changes from the 80s and 90s when Action Park and the Schlitterbahn parks were just hand making slides and hoping things would work. Now, firms like Whitewater West and ProSlide do extensive calculations on these structures to ensure that they are safe. The only major incident that I know of since the millenium was the Verruckt incident, which was created using the 80s / 90s technique of guess and check. That killed NBGS and Schlitterbahn, ruining their reputations forever and forcing sale or closure of all of their parks
@@wheelgap ride accidents database. I'm busy.
@@FAFO4wisdom I can't find a ride accidents database. This law firm has a summary of some accidents: blumenshinelawgroup.com/water-park-injuries-and-deaths/
Looks like most issues in the past couple years have to do with the braking trough for body slides. If the water level is not high enough, you may not stop in time, or you will end up hydroplaning. With standard testing procedures and the correct tuning, this would not happen (and doesn't) regularly. Otherwise I am having a tough time finding specifically a water slide ride accident database. Most accidents I can find at water parks are from drowning in large pools, such as wave pools. Lifeguards often save most potential casualties, but every once in a while, lifeguards don't pay enough attention and someone will drown.
To me, saying that we shouldn't build taller water slides because there are a small number of accidents is like saying cars shouldn't go faster than 60 mph because there are crashes. It is all about engineering and policy changes that make these activities (water slides, not cars) some of the safest "things" you can do at any time, as long as you can swim.
I also forgot that the Meryal tower has a 260 ft body slide also from WhiteWater West. That opened back in November and I have not heard of any issues. This by comparison is nothing.
Just, if you are going to say something inflammatory, please either a) be right and have sources to back up your claims, or b) acknowledge that you might not be correct and move on. You don't have to ride this ride! But millions of people will ride this ride over the next however many years, with a very minimal risk of injury, let alone casualty. MtO has had some issues with safety over their history, but that has come down to people disobeying rules, overcrowded pools, or maintenance policy failures on their wild mouse. The park has changed and grown since then and has had a spotless record for the past decade, and I expect this ride to be extremely safe