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Tower height vs slide height

The tower is the building with the stairs. The slide height is how far you actually fall. Record-keepers only count the slide!The tower is the structure; slide height is the vertical fall from the start. Guinness measures the latter. Meryal's Icon Tower is 85 m; its record slide 76.3 m.

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Flume

The long channel you slide down.The channel the rider travels in.

Dispatch

When the lifeguard at the top says GO.The platform or shallow pool where an attendant releases each rider once the slide is clear.

Run-out

The long flat bit at the bottom of a speed slide that slows you down.The long flat bit at the bottom of a speed slide that slows you down.

Splash pool

The pool you land in at the end.The pool at the flume exit.

Conveyor

A moving belt that carries tubes back up to the top, or lifts rafts up a hill.A belt that returns tubes and rafts to the tower, or lifts them up hills on a conveyor water coaster.

Pump room

A hidden room full of huge pumps that push water to the top of every slide, then clean it and send it round again.Pumps, filters and chlorination.

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