Waterslide Worlds Go Vertical

I guess it's nice that someone is designing a safe way to find out how it feels to fly down a waterfall. It just never occurred to me to try.

In our city's water park, we had a smaller on, that had only about 20' vertical drop......

and there were a few injuries a year on that........

I think a vertical slide was even discussed here on CR4?......

Remarkably they're reopening this park near me this year. My favorite lines from the Wiki entry:

"Employees have reported they were offered hundred-dollar bills to test it."

"'there were too many bloody noses and back injuries' from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered. A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.^"

I have a hard time understanding this vertical drop from this post.

On a drop like that, if you get wind, or air or separation under you?????. your control is gone......control, what control?

The park we had that only had a 20 foot drop, had a lot of back and neck injuries.....

With parks pushing the limits on rides, we are going to get more of this.

I thought I hard that Mt. Olympus was pulling the ride out of it's park.