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🛡️ Staying safeWWA, IAAPA and Golden Tickets

Slide clubs and prizes

Water park people have their own clubs: the World Waterpark Association and IAAPA. Every year they give prizes for the best new slides.Water park people have their own clubs: the World Waterpark Association and IAAPA. Every year they give prizes for the best new slides.

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The Golden Ticket Awards are like the Oscars for water parks. Schlitterbahn won best park 27 years in a row until Volcano Bay won in 2025.

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ASTM F2376 and EN 1069

The rule books

Engineers have written big rule books that say exactly how a slide must be built and looked after.Standard Practice for Classification, Design, Manufacture, Construction and Operation of Water Slide Systems, first published 2006 and now at F2376-24, with revisions in progress.
Inspectors

The slide checkers

Every year, special inspectors climb all over the slides, check every bolt and ride them, before the park is allowed to open.Every year, special inspectors climb all over the slides, check every bolt and ride them, before the park is allowed to open.
The surprising answer

What hurts people most?

It's not the slides!A Turkish emergency-department study (2005-06, 73 water-park patients) found 31.
Kansas City · 2016

What happened on Verrückt

In 2016 a raft on the world's tallest slide bounced up and a 10-year-old boy called Caleb was killed.Designed in-house by Jeff Henry and John Schooley without a formal engineering process.
Action Park · 1985

What happened on the Cannonball Loop

The straight-up loop slide was so bumpy that riders got bloody noses and lost teeth.The full-vertical looping body slide ran for about a month in 1985 before New Jersey regulators closed it.
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Slide rules for YOU

Wait for "go".Minimum heights, weight windows, one rider or raft in the flume at a time, arms crossed and legs together on speed slides, no glasses or jewellery, lifeguards at dispatch and catch pool, daily pre-opening walk-throughs and an annual third-party inspection where the law requires it.

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