30 shocking facts about aquatic parks

You may want to rethink this trip to SeaWorld.


Water parks are an insured source of summer fun. But before walking in the cousin splashy park of fun, ask yourself: How much do you really know about these popular summer palaces of summer? Although the parks - and the walks that compose them are not there for a long time (the first opened its doors to the public in 1962), you will find a lot of crazy history and farm facts are hiding in the water shudding and the lazy rivers in the world. In other words: If you are among the 85 million people spending time in a water park each year, you will want to tilt these shocking facts before your next visit. And for more nidbite fun, check these30 shocking facts about amusement parks.

1
The water slides are more dangerous than the rollercoasters

Waterslide

In 2014, the Ministry of Community Affairs of New JerseyData collected In wounds in amusement parks and aquatic parks and found that visitors were more than twice as likely to be hurting the slide compared to a rollercoastre. Among the reported total incidents, water rides accounted for 40% (and this is even more shocking when you consider that rides on water represent only 11% of all the attractions of New Jersey.)

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The "capital of the world's water park" is not where you expect

Wisconsin Dells water park, travel

With more than twenty interior and exterior water parks,Wisconsin Dells is the "self-proclaimed water park capital" of the world. "The city houses Noah's ark, the largest American water park and Kalahari Water Park, the largest inner water park in the country. If you plan to travel to Wisconsin Dells, you should first follow the20 food doctors always avoid traveling.

3
In Japan, tattoos are verboten

Bai Ling tattoo

In Japan, tattoos are usually associated with criminals and organized crime, as well as such Japanese aquatic parksProhibit integrated people from the visit. "As a general rule, people affiliated with gaming or criminal organizations are not allowed to enter the premises," the Tokyo Summerland website, an immensely popular park in Japan, reads. "The same applies to people who wore tattoos."

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There is an abandoned water park in Disney

Disney World
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In 1976, Walt Disney World opened the doors at the country river, but they were soon closed for good in 2001. The water park was facing many challenges during its short life, including infested water. Obsolete bacteria and attractions. Instead of demolishing the park and reusing the space, Disney has just chosen to get on foot; Today, it remains on the field of the Disney world, succumbing slowly to weeds and wildlife. Some guests have daredSneak and take videosBut, but those who are trapped for the permanent banishment of the park. Disney is full of fun facts, so do not forget to check these20 Secrets Disney employees do not want you to know.

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Celebrities love their water park mansions

Celine Dion mansion water park

In 2010,Celine Dion and end of husbandRené Angelil Bought a 10,000 square feet house, but the interior of the house is nothing compared to the property it rests. With Florida's home comes from a slip of personal water, several pools, a private beach and shaded pavilions. In 2017, the Canadian singerSold Wonder Water Park For a fall of the jaw 27 million dollars. And for more Jaw-Dropting star news, check these50 Facts of crazy celebrities that you will not believe are true.

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The first interior park was probably built in your life

World Waterpark Canada

Nowadays you will find indoor water parks around the world to enjoy all year round, but the first was not built before 1985.WORLD WATERPARK In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is housed in the West Edmonton shopping center and remains the largest inland water park in North America at this day.

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Public pools are breeding ground for bacteria

couple in pool cool off for the summer
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Unfortunately, children (and even some adults) have not quite seized the concept that it is not about using the public pool as a toilet and their excretions make for swimming experience not so nice. Ato studyFrom the Disease Control Center (CDC) revealed that 58% of public pools contained E. coli bacteria, probably fecal contamination. And Canadian scientistsdetermined That a swimming pool of 220,000 gallon contained nearly 20 yearsgallon urine. When you go a dive, rinse in advance to avoid being part of the problem - and that should go without saying, but do not pee in the pool.

8
The highest water cottage in the world was greater than most buildings

Verrückt water slide

On July 10, 2014, Schlitterbahn Kansas City opened the world's highest and fastest water guiche. The journey has been correctly named Verrückt - the German word forcrazy Wherefoolish-Ausfi he stood at 168 feet. For the record, it's greater than the average New York building. Since the Get Go, the record setting path is confronted with its fair share of complications and in 2016, the water slide faces at its final blow when a 10-year runner.has suffered a fatal wound to the neck.

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You can drag through the infested waters of shark

Atlantis Serpent Slide, water park

At the Island of Atlantis Paradise in the Bahamas, guests have the opportunity to deceive aFive-storey water center This ends with a "tranquil pass" through the infested waters of shark. But there is no need for fret: the sharks are housed behind the glass, so you will be completely protected when you are Gawk in the fear. If you visit the Bahamas, you should bemore concerned about tap water a shark behind the glass.

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The longest longer water slide is inflatable

New Jersey water slide, water park

In 2015, Guinness World Records certified an inflatable water basin in Vernon, New Jersey, as the longest in the world. The unnamed slide measures 1,975 feet long, more than a third of a mile. Each of the 20 sections of nautical sliding weighs 600 pounds and the gigantic range takes more than two hours to inflate. Unfortunately, the sliding of the Nats is not open to the public, but peoplecan enjoy these20 Fool summer camps that really exist.

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The state with the most aquatic parks per capita is ...

mother and daughter sliding down waterslide, water park

Of all 50 states, South Dakota has theMost aquatic parks per million people with 16.4. The state may only have 14 aquatic parks (which is compared to the 103 of Florida), but the South Dakota has only a population of just over 853,000 people at Total according to the data of 2014.

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While Hawaii (!) Just a

wet'n'wild hawaii water park

You would think that a state of life in the perpetual summer would be overloaded with aquatic parks, but Hawaii just houses one. Located on Oahu, Wet'N'wild Hawaii originally opened in 1999 under the name Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park and was sold to Australian Village Roadshow Limited in 2008. Hawaii does not need plenty of parks aquatic when it houses part of the50 destinations so magical, you will not believe that they are not in the United States.

13
The largest pool in the world is 14 times larger than Gillette Stadium

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The saltwater pool in San Alfonso del Mar Resort in Chile is not your average bathing hole. With a total area of ​​19.77 acres - almost 15 football fields-the pool holds the world record for the largest swimming pool in the region. When you want to take a dip, be sure to use these15 hacks to apply your solar screen more easily.

14
There was once a slide so risky of the immediate closure

Cannonball Loop Action Park Waterslide

The New Jersey Action Park was infamous at the end of the 20th century to be dangerous - the park formerly boasts of being responsible for "only six deaths", as if it were an achievement - but maybe nothing in the park was no longer designed than the barrel ball loop. The trip, as you may have guessed, it was a gravity defying water slide with a loop loop. Although there is a lot of folklore surrounding the promenade, it is said that the loop has been open for a month only in the summer of 1985 before the new Carnival Security Security Council of the New Jersey Carnival.

A former employee saidWeird NJ That the journey was "the idea of ​​some Swiss guys [the park] imported on a week's visa." A young soul who was quite courageous to mount the loop like a childnoted"Rather than picking up the slide on the backend of the loop, I fell to the bottom. I hit the back of my head on the slide and I almost knocked unconscious."

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The busiest water park attracts more people living in Phoenix

Disney Typhoon Lagoon water park
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In 2013, Walt Disney World's Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando, Florida, was the United Statesthe most busy water park with 2.1 million visitors.

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The largest wave pool in the world could fill an Olympic size pool

Typhoon Lagoon disney, water park

Four times more. Disney's Typhoon Lagoon houses the largest wave pool in the world. Fun made: the pool requires 2.75milliongallons of water to complete completely. For the context: an Olympic pool is 660,000 gallons.

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There is an aquatic park for people with disabilities

Morgan's Inspiration Wonderland water park

Water parks are hard to navigate for people with disabilities, so in 2017,Gordon Hartman Open Morgan's inspiration with accessibility to mind. Not only does the park propose not only an accessible river boat ride and splash pads, but also any disabled person can enter the park gratis and receives a waterproof wheelchair to use. "Our goal is to provide experience with great experience in an inclusive, safe, comfortable and not too crowded environment," said HartmanPuff.

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18
Several cruises now house water parks on board

Carnival Cruise Ship waterslide water park

Cruise ships are constantly looking for new crazy ways to attract customers and one of many ways to continue doing this is with aquatic parks on ships. Take the carnival cruise line, for example: each carnival ship has at least one water tutor, and more than half have a Waterworks aqua park with side-by-side race slides and other fun features.

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The slip of the water was invented in the Midwest

Waterslide, water park

The idea of ​​the sliding of the Nats has been designed in Minnesota, all the places. Faribault ResidentHerbert Sellner came with the idea in 1923 when he built a large wooden slide that was emptied on the water. Known as the Taboggan Water Slide, Sellner's invention was a quick success and then invented other amusement parks like the Tilt-A-Whirl in 1926.

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You can rent an airbnb in a water park

AirBNB private water park

It seems too good to be true, but for only $ 98 per night you can rent a2 bedroom condo At Fantasy World Resort in Kissimmee, Florida. The complex offers swimming pools, jacuzzis, a lazy river, waterlides, an arcade and more, the condo is minutes from Disney World. And for more incredible accommodation options, see these15 Airbnbs at the jaw from around the world that will not break the bank.

21
There areThe water Russian mountains

Dragon's Revenge water park ride

The first mountains of water in the world - essentially a rollercoaster that allows you to soak wet - was created by Schlitterbahn Waterpark & ​​Resort in New Braunfels, Texas. According to the station's website, the Aqua Mountains, pushing you up, downhill and everything else a regular mountain, but in the water. "

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22
There is a "aquatic park father"

SeaWorld, shamu, water park

In 2004, the World Waterpark Association (WWA) honored a man with a life realization price and a proclamation declaring the "Father of the Water Park". This man wasGeorge Millay: Founder of SeaWorld and Wild Wild Wild Water Parks. While his written biographer, Millay was "a man who turned from gold water - a modern day posedon with creativity, endurance and smarts to design leisure opportunities centered on the sea and oceans" . And for more life under the sea, here is30 facts about the oceans of the world that will burn you.

23
You can swim with rays

stingray
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Several aquatic parks allow Pet Stingrays customers, but a San Antonio station, Texas, the fact below and offers customers the possibility ofto swim with them. At Aquatica, you can touch, feed and spend time with the cownose rays inside their tank. And do not worry about upsetting marine creatures-researchers have noticed that they "get nothing negative" human interactions.

24
There are aquatic parks of campus

Texas Tech water area

Texas Tech students have access to a giant installation by aquatic park equipment with a 25-person hot tub, a wet terrace, a dive well with a water zipper and a lazy river of 64 feet long duration . The water complex has set $ 8.4 million, but it certainly helps recruitment efforts.

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25
The first pirate shower was on earth

pirate ship facebook

This could overcome the goal of the ride entirely, but the original driving of the pirate ship was actually enclaved. Created in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1890s, the journey was ironically called the wave of the ocean, and he sat down in a circus where people could go on board and learn what the on the ocean was like.

26
All water parks do not waste water

Schlitterbahn water park

They have a bad reputation for being water laces, but aquatic parks make conscious efforts to conserve water. Take the Schlitterbahn park in Texas: it filters and reuses 97% of the 3.5 million gallons needed for the management of the park and the other three percent are lost to evaporation.

27
Water park drains are disgusting

storm drain, water park

"We have come out of countless hair and fake nails", a reddit user who worked in an aquatic parkwrote on the things he saw in the drain. "Many small-stroke animals, mice, birds, similar. The dressings, layers of dirty tablecloths, glass, garbage of all kinds. Just, everything. People are disgusting." EW.

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The first aquatic park was originally built for private use

Lake Dolores Waterpark

In the 1950s, local businessmanBob Byers builtLake Dolores Waterpark In the south of California for its extended family to enjoy. Named after his wife, the park initially presented a little more than a lake man and a campsite; However, when Byers decided to open the park to the public in 1962, he added slides of water, high dives, raft walks, etc. In 1990, Byers sold the park and he was referred under the name Rock-A-Hoola and the subsequent discovery of Waterpark until his closure in 2004.

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ATitanic-Emarked ride is on the horizon

Titanic Sinking

In 2015, the twentieth century Fox announced its intention to build a theme park in Dubai according to some of their most emblematic television programs and movies,Titanicincluded. "We are working on creating an immersive experience including motion theater simulators and allow you to experience what it looked like.Titanic excitingly, "President of Fox Consumer ProductsJeffrey Godsick RecountBuzzfeed. The project isCurrently pendingBut hope that construction will be restarted from time to time. And for moreTitanic Trivia, you want to read on the20 factsTitanic Is wrong.

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Seaworld orcs wear solar screen

Orca whale
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Orcas's skin is very sensitive to the sun. Usually these creatures live so far below the surface of the ocean that UV rays do not affect them, but in Seaworld, they spend most of their time in shallow waters and thus require a black zinc oxide to protect their skin. Humans are also sensitive to the damage of the sun, so you should use these15 hacks to apply your solar screen more easily.

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