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Splash mountain log sinks.. again.. for 3rd time in 2 years
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Dear Prudence
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you reap what you sow!
Buried20KLeague
Well-Known Member
I’ve worked other log rides. There’s a rubber plug/flapper that lets water out when going up hills but doesn’t let water in while in the trench. It looks like a duck’s bill. When that plug comes out it’s every man for himself.
I assume this is the same.
flynnibus
Premium Member
There has to be more to it than this.. the logs have to go WAY down to actually take water in via being swamped. The sides are like 16" above the water line.
Sir_Cliff
Well-Known Member
Yes, remember that guy who was killed years ago on Splash after getting out of the log and being crushed between two logs when another came up behind? It's not hard to imagine something similar happening in an event like this one where people naturally jump out of a sinking log. In that case, I don't think Disney would get away with shrugging that the logs just sink from time to time.
They have sensors that will stop the ride if there is a backup. The pictures seem to suggest that this happened in the Zip-a-dee-doo-dah scene. Only one boat is allowed to be in that section, and the next boat won’t get released from the waterfall hold until the boat in front of it passes by the alligator (where the evacuation pathway starts on the left.)
spock8113
Well-Known Member
Has anyone heard the story of the rider who stood up in the boat at the top of the falls to get a good picture and then fell out of the boat and was killed? Then there's the Thunder Mountain ride in Disneyland that uncoupled and the rear car plowed into the front car and killed someone. Or how about the poor employee killed when the monorail didn't stop and hit the train ahead, killing the young driver?
It's all machinery that can sometimes break or malfunction and lack of maintenance can speed this along. Accountability
It's all machinery that can sometimes break or malfunction and lack of maintenance can speed this along. Accountability
Gandalf The Grey
New Member
That's what I was thinking too. Just more clickbait to try and make Disney look bad. Life happens. It's just water.
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
Things like this aren't supposed to happen. You rarely hear of it happening at other parks log flumes. There is a reason a lot of parks have gotten rid of their flume rides.
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Most parks don’t have 8 adults in a log either, nor ops who aggressively try to put two large adults in the same row.
The Splash Mountain death was a FL resident who felt sick and he got out of the boat and was walking on the water ride path to get to an emergency exit. He was then hit by an oncoming boat of fellow guests.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Yes, but your stories are not accurate.
Splash Mountain -the guy left his log, and later fell into the flume while trying to cross it by climbing over logs and was crushed between logs in the flume.
BTMRR - a passenger in the front car was killed when the locomotive of their train derailed and plowed itself into the track infrastructure causing the front passenger car to crush into the locomotive car.
Monorail - One train backed into the other... killing the driver in the train behind it.