Accident on Pirates

[IAmFloridaBorn]

I cannot stress this enough.

Guests need to pay attention to their surroundings and remember that you can get injured through the simplest of things.

Yup. I am overly cautious. I may get on the same ride over and over but I want to stay safe. i can't help it.

 

[PhotoDave219]

exactly. if his hand was below the water then clearly it was his fault. if it was above then it was disney's

I can't see how any of this is Disney's fault unless the guest's hand is somehow inside the boat at the time of the incident.

On every attraction, ride and sometimes show, you are cautioned to keep your 'arms, feet, hands and legs inside the vehicle at all times.' So I'm going with guest negligence until you can prove to me this is somehow the company's fault.

 

[TP2000]

@TP2000 they still have a double loading at pirates at MK.

Yes, but it's inline. The same system they have at Disneyland's Pirates built in 1966-67. But according to that link @Bairstow provided, in the 1970's the WDW Pirates had a double side-by-side loading dock like Disneyland's Small World built in 1965-66. But it was changed at some point prior to the 1980's when I started visiting WDW regularly.

 

[steve2wdw]

Yes, but it's inline. The same system they have at Disneyland's Pirates built in 1966-67. But according to that link @Bairstow provided, in the 1970's the WDW Pirates had a double side-by-side loading dock like Disneyland's Small World built in 1965-66. But it was changed at some point prior to the 1980's when I started visiting WDW regularly.

The two flumes were adjacent to each other....there wasn't a large "island" between the flumes. Loading took place on opposite sides, with double rows of boats coming out of the tunnel upstream. Of the two attraction queues, it was the queue on the left that now gets distributed into rows directly over the old flume. As your boat leaves the dock today, notice the little tiny "walkway" to the left of your boat. The other flume is on the other side. The merge point was at the turn to the right as you enter the caves.

 

[marni1971]

Yes, but it's inline. The same system they have at Disneyland's Pirates built in 1966-67. But according to that link @Bairstow provided, in the 1970's the WDW Pirates had a double side-by-side loading dock like Disneyland's Small World built in 1965-66. But it was changed at some point prior to the 1980's when I started visiting WDW regularly.

It certainly did have.

It went inline in the 90s.

 

[TP2000]

It certainly did have.

It went inline in the 90s.

Very interesting! Thank you. I never picked up on the change whenever that happened, as I was living back East in the late 80's and through the 90's and was visiting WDW a lot more than Disneyland then.

 

[TP2000]

The two flumes were adjacent to each other....there wasn't a large "island" between the flumes. Loading took place on opposite sides, with double rows of boats coming out of the tunnel upstream. Of the two attraction queues, it was the queue on the left that now gets distributed into rows directly over the old flume. As your boat leaves the dock today, notice the little tiny "walkway" to the left of your boat. The other flume is on the other side. The merge point was at the turn to the right as you enter the caves.

Oh! That makes so much more sense now. I think I do vaguely remember that setup actually. I was trying to picture the opposite setup, which may be why I was drawing a total blank. But of course with the double queues splitting onto opposite sides, that would have to be how it worked.

Interesting that it was changed in the 1990's, when computer control ride systems would have been more advanced than the early 70's and likely similar to what they use today. If in fact the problem was with boats crashing into each other as they joined the single flume due to computer lapses on when to send a boat and when to hold one.

 

[Tom Morrow]

So here's what I wonder. What part of the ride did this happen? If it was in the middle of the ride, the CM's wouldn't have any real way of knowing until the boat got to the end, so did he have to ride the ride gushing out blood?

 

[TheJonesys]

Have just been on a British Disney forum and the man in question was one their members Dad, the post says that he raised his hands in the air as they went down the drop and felt a sharp pain, he is now receiving treatment in hospital

 

[natatomic]

Have just been on a British Disney forum and the man in question was one their members Dad, the post says that he raised his hands in the air as they went down the drop and felt a sharp pain, he is now receiving treatment in hospital

Not to say that you can't trust what you read on the internet, but he is my dad also, and a shark bit him mid-ride.

 

[marni1971]

So here's what I wonder. What part of the ride did this happen?

The single part where you are most expected to keep arms and hands inside the boat.

 

[Nubs70]

The single part where you are most expected to keep arms and hands inside the boat.

Where all the boats are backed up and bouncing into each other?

 

[Seabasealpha1]

I guess if you're going to lose an appendage of some kind while visiting a Disney park, you had better just do it on Pirates...

Maybe they have added a member of the Pelegostos tribe to the attraction...

 

[cbconglom]

Some people (especially tourists) choose ignore safety warnings, this is what happens. IE the guys getting out of the seat belts on TOT and Hoot and Chief (RIP) from Mesa Verde.

Hoot and chief from Mesa verde? What does this mean?

 

[dreamfinder]

Hoot and chief from Mesa verde? What does this mean?

Some guests that made a regular habit out of leaving the ride vehicles on Horizons and documenting their escapades.

 

[cbconglom]

Some guests that made a regular habit out of leaving the ride vehicles on Horizons and documenting their escapades.

Thanks. So one of them died somehow doing that?

 

[muteki]

Thanks. So one of them died somehow doing that?

No, Chief recently passed due to cancer.

 

[biggy H]

Where all the boats are backed up and bouncing into each other?

No apparently at the drop. They say they have been raising their hands at this point for years... The person reporting it was their dad isn't with them in WDW though so its still second hand info of sorts...

 

[cbconglom]

No, Chief recently passed due to cancer.

Very sad. Thanks for clearing that up

 

[Jen Marie]

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/officials-man-loses-fingertips-disney-ride/ngdLc/ This news article has your information on this incident.