The science behind waterslides
- allaroundfunrental
- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min read
At the top of the Summit Plummet waterslide at Walt Disney World's Blizzard Beach in Orlando, Florida—which stands some 120 feet (37 meters) above the ground—thrill seekers have been known to turn back. It's not hard to see why: The 12-story waterslide has one of the tallest and fastest drops in the world. Riders of rent bounce house water slide reach speeds of up to 60 miles (90 kilometers) per hour as they plummet down a free-fall slide with fake snowbanks on each side.
The Disney park is one of almost 2,000 water parks that have cropped up around the world in the past 30 years. The once-simple backyard pool accessories—remember those light blue, 6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) slides? —now have hairpin curves, exhilarating loops, and drops that span multiple stories.
The water slide rentals even play a starring role in the critically acclaimed summer movie The Way, Way Back, which opens this Friday. In the poignant coming-of-age story, 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) escapes his complicated family life by working in a highly chlorinated summer water park, where he makes good friends and escapes his troubles by plummeting down slide after slide.
At National Geographic, one can enjoy a good waterslide but were also wondering just how they work—and how water parks use basic physics and engineering concepts to keep their 85 million annual riders of water slide rental safe. So, we turned to some experts: the people who design water parks rides, a physicist with three small children, and two 14-year-old twins who are self-described "water park enthusiasts."
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