AquaLoop

AquaLoop

Four AquaLoops at Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast in Australia.
General statistics
Type Water slide
Designer WhiteWater West, AQUARENA
Height 17 m (56 ft)
Drop 16 m (52 ft)
Length 88.4 m (290 ft)
Speed 60 km/h (37 mph)
Duration 7 seconds
Installations 20+
Restrictions Riders must be at least 120 cm (3 ft 11 in) in height and weigh between 45 kg (99 lb) and 130 kg (290 lb) to ride.[1]

An AquaLoop is a type of body water slide where single riders are dropped down a near vertical slide and into an inclined loop. They are usually located in water parks.

History

Austrian manufacturer Aquarena developed the world's first mass-produced fully inverted looping water slide, known as the AquaLoop.[2] The slide is currently licensed and distributed by Canadian water slide manufacturer WhiteWater West.[3] There are nearly 20 AquaLoop installations around the world.[4] The first installation was at Terme 3000 water park, Slovenia in 2008.[5] Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast was the first to install more than one AquaLoop at a single location.[6][7][8] The AquaLoop uses a trap-door to release riders down a 17-metre (56 ft) near-vertical descent at a speed of up to 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph). Riders experience 2.5 Gs in less than 2 seconds.[9] The whole ride is over within 7 seconds.[10]

Ride

An AquaLoop is launched from a 17-metre (56 ft) platform. A single rider is loaded into a launch chamber where they stand with their hands across their chest. After a countdown, a trapdoor opens and the rider immediately drops 16 metres (52 ft) inside a near vertical slide. The rider accelerates to 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph) in just 2 seconds before entering the loop element. This element is a variation of the traditional vertical loop because it lies on an angle of approximately 45°. This variation of a loop is called an inclined loop. The 88.4-metre (290 ft) slide is over within 7 seconds.[10][11]

Installations

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AquaLoop at Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast
Name Water park Location Number of slides Opened
360Rush Wet'n'Wild Sydney Australia Prospect, New South Wales, Australia 4 slides 12 December 2013 [12]
Climax Waterbom Park Indonesia Bali, Indonesia 1 slide 2010
AquaLoop Paradise Island Water Park China Chengdu, China 1 slide 28 June 2013
AquaLoop Beijing Watercube Water Park China Beijing, China 1 slide 8 August 2010 [13][14]
Mambo Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' United States Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States 4 slides 2012 [15]
Aqualoop Calypso Park Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2 slides 24 June 2011 [16]
AquaLoop Caribbean Bay South Korea Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea 4 slides 17 June 2011 [17]
AquaLoop El Rollo Mexico Tlaquiltenango, Morelos, Mexico 1 slide 2014 [18]
El abismo Parque Acuático Ixtapan Mexico Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico, Mexico 1 slide 2010 [19]
La Chute Jay Peak Resort United States Jay, Vermont, United States 1 slide 25 November 2011 [4]
Aqualoop Jolly Roger Amusement Park United States Ocean City, Maryland, United States 1 slide 2012
Aqualoop Terme 3000 Slovenia Moravske Toplice, Slovenia 1 slide May 2008 [20]
AquaLoop Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast Australia Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 4 slides 18 September 2010 [21]
AquaLoop Camping Le Pommier France Villeneuve-de-Berg, Ardeche, France 1 slide June 2013 [22]
AquaLooping Aqua Magis Germany Plettenberg, Germany 1 slide 19 September 2008 [23]
Climax Waterbom Park Indonesia Kuta, Bali, Indonesia 1 slide 2011
Cyclone World Waterpark Canada Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1 slide 12 August 2011
Goop Loop Cartoon Network Amazone Waterpark Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 1 slide 3 October 2014 [24]
L2 Wave Austria Wörgl, Austria 1 slide with double loop March 2010 [25][26]
Liwa Loop Yas Waterworld United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 1 slide Unknown
Looping-Rutsche Aqualand Germany Köln, Germany 1 slide 11 April 2009 [27]
Lunar Loop Wilderness Territory United States Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States 1 slide June 2012
Scorpion's Tail Noah's Ark Water Park United States Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States 1 slide 29 May 2010 [4]
Booster Loop Aquaparc Switzerland Le Bouveret, Valais, Switzerland 1 slide 8 May 2010 [28]
Unknown Therme Amadé Austria Altenmarkt, Austria 1 slide August 2011 [29]
Pegasus II Kristall Palm Beach Germany Stein, Germany 1 slide with double loop 12 December 2012 [30]
Hurricane Loop Miramar Germany Weinheim, Germany 1 slide with double loop July 2012 [31]
Skyron Rocket Odissea 2000 Italy Rossano, Italy 1 slide June 2014 [32]
AquaLoop RamaYana Water Park Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 1 slide May 2016 [33]
AquaLoop Wild River Country United States North Little Rock, Arkansas 1 slide May 2015
The Bullchute Typhoon Texas United States Katy, Texas 1 slide May 2016 [34]

Similar water slides

The first known existence of a looping water slide was at Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey in the mid-1980s. Their water slide featured a vertical loop but was repeatedly closed due to safety concerns.[35][36][37]

More recently, ProSlide developed the SuperLOOP which features a fast, downward spiralling helix after a trapdoor release.[38] The first installation was The Wedgie at WhiteWater World.[39] It was marketed as a looping water slide despite riders never actually experiencing an inversion.[40]

References

  1. ↑ "AquaLoop - Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast". MyFun. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "AquaLOOP". Aquarena. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "AquaLoop". WhiteWater West. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 MacDonald, Brady (22 November 2009). "Water parks vie to open first U.S. looping water slide". LA Times. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Aqualoop". Aquarena. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "WhiteWater launches Dueling AquaLoops". WhiteWater West. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  7. ↑ "Fun the theme for school holidays". Gold Coast Bulletin. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  8. ↑ Ardern, Lucy; Westthorp, Tanya (30 December 2009). "Gold Coast theme parks in ride war". Gold Coast Bulletin. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "New attractions for Coast theme parks". Gold Coast Bulletin. 14 July 2010. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  10. 1 2 Stojceska, Milena (17 September 2010). "Wet'n'Wild's new AquaLoop set to thrill". Gold Coast Bulletin. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  11. ↑ WhiteWater West (12 January 2010). "AquaLoop". YouTube. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  12. ↑ "360Rush (Wet'n'Wild Sydney)". Parkz. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  13. ↑ Farrar, Lara. "Beijing's Water Cube now has slides, rides, a wave pool and spa". CNNGO. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  14. ↑ "Attractions - AquaLoop". Beijing Watercube Waterpark. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  15. ↑ "Weltweit erste Aqualoop Loopingrutsche".
  16. ↑ Levine, Arthur. "Calypso Waterpark". About.com. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  17. ↑ "아쿠아 루프 오픈기념 1,000명에게 쏜다!". Samsung Everland. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  18. ↑ "El Rollo Aqualoop".
  19. ↑ "El abismo".
  20. ↑ "Weltweit erste Aqualoop Loopingrutsche" (PDF). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  21. ↑ "AquaLoop (Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast)". Parkz. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  22. ↑ "Aqua Park - Aqua Breeze". Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  23. ↑ "AquaMagis Plettenberg - Looping-Wasser-Rutsche". AquaMagis. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  24. ↑ "Goop In This Gravity-defying Water Rollercoaster Thailand". Retrieved March 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  25. ↑ "L2 - die Doppel-Looping Rutsche". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  26. ↑ ""L2" - The World's First Double-Loop Water Slide" (PDF). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  27. ↑ "Aqualand in Köln mit Loopingrutsche". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  28. ↑ "L'Aquaparc du Bouveret inaugure le Booster Loop le 8 mai 2010". Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  29. ↑ "THERME AMADÉ - Water Slides". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  30. ↑ "Kristall Palm Beach in Stein - Doppel-Looping Rutsche". Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  31. ↑ "Rutschvergnügen - Miramar".
  32. ↑ "Acqua Park Odissea 2000 - Skyron Rocket".
  33. ↑ "RamaYana Water Park - Rides".
  34. ↑ http://typhoontexas.com/attractions
  35. ↑ Austin, op. cit., 21.
  36. ↑ Fergus, Tom; May 2006; "Another Action Park Employee Spills His Guts", in "The Reaction to Traction at Action Park"; Weird NJ, 29.
  37. ↑ Braybrook, Steve; May 2006; "A Survivor from Action Park Writes In", in "The Reaction to Traction at Action Park"; Weird NJ, 29.
  38. ↑ "SuperLOOP". ProSlide. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  39. ↑ "SuperLOOP - Installations". ProSlide. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  40. ↑ WhiteWater World (7 April 2010). "THE WEDGIE WATER SLIDE". Commercial. YouTube. Retrieved 30 December 2010.

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