Water World Tsunami injuring many in China. The operator got drunk and turned the wave magnitude to the maximum level.
Water world Tsunami injuring many in Yanbian, Manchuria. The operator got drunk and turned the wave magnitude to maximum level. pic.twitter.com/PjKTBelPRA— Augustus Manchurius Borealis (@1984to1776) July 30, 2019
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I kinda always expect water park operators to be drunk on the job.
I'm really impressed that they made it so they could create a mini Tsunami. Scary that they would give it that power.
As a drunk engineer, you makey something so it no do that,
Yehaw, body surfing time.
I didn't laugh .... you laughed
Jesus Christ, that's fucking awful.
That looks fun as hell if you know it was coming and less crowded.
This.
Dear Water Parks, I would pay for a tsunami wave pool. Build it and we will come
that would be one hell of a mess to clean
I dunno.
Even though I spent most of my time in Blacksburg in Pamplin, I'm going to venture a guess that tsunamis, concrete, and retaining walls are not a great mix.
I did some 2 minute legal research on reddit so I feel I'm qualified enough to say that any potential problems could be sorted out by throwing up some padding on the walls and making everyone sign a waiver
Why is there even a setting that goes that high?
I see variations of this question a lot, and I have to wonder, since many of you are engineers, do you not work with other engineers?
Those in my orbit never seem to ask the question, "but what if a moron used it?"
(Shamelessly stolen from XKCD).
Not to disparage all those in (any) uniform, I have often had to consider "XXX-proofing" something.
With good reason.
No idea who you are, or what you worked on, but I do know for a fact that you absolutely had to [servicemember]-proof whatever it was.
So the engineering process goes a little bit like this ... Get requirements, determine cost, present cost, find out doing it the right way is 3× more expensive than any one really thought it would be. Find requirements that can be relaxed with keeping things safe and give customer what they want, find out customer cant even afford 1.5 what they thought it would cost even though they never asked any one with knowledge what it would cost, get pressured by management and customer to do everything cheaper, go back to suppliers to see what parts still meet spec but are cheaper than what you originally bid, find out dials that go to 11 are common while dials that only go to 5 are custom built and cost 5x as much, customer and management agree to use dials that go to 11 instead of 5 to make cost, they assume that they can write a procedure to stop operators from turning the dial to 11, they put a big red sticker on the console, you find out, you complain that this causes issues and nothing down stream has been tested at power 11. You refuse to sign off on the design, this is China so no one cares.
You now have a super charged tsunami machine that has never been tested at upper limits.
Someone's getting paid...
a lotta someones
It's China, so maybe not?
Ain't gonna be much. Medical will be paid for and then maybe 10k for the most injured of them. Maybe.
There is so much weird shit like this over here every day. This shocks me in no way. That being said, quite funny. hope everyone heals up quickly.
You never know how many rednecks live in an area until you go to a waterpark
So no one got out after the previous waves that were building up to that?
For reporting sake, the waterpark instantly disputed the drunk part and claimed it was a mechanical malfunction.
Definitely mechanical, the mechanism to stop the drunk guy from turning it to 11 failed, or was never implemented, or wasn't in the original design because of costs.
Atlantis in the Bahamas has a tidal wave version of a lazy river. If you hang out on the outside walls of turns the wave height will actually take you about the walls around the river, it's wild.
I mean....why isn't Fuente doing a better job recruiting?
I heard Clemson was getting a death wave pool. We need to invest in death wave pool technology or we're going to fall even further behind in the arms race.
We cannot allow a death wave pool gap.
Talk to Kelly Slater. His company, Kelly Slater Wave Company, designed and built this:
http://www.kswaveco.com/
This is why duck diving is important
This is also important