World’s longest tube water slide in Penang enters record books
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Globe's longest tube water slide in Penang enters tape books
The newest attraction at Escape theme park in Malaysia takes iv minutes to ride – and is 1.1km long. Anyone game to take the plunge?
The world's longest water slide at Penang'south Escape theme part is expected to open to the public in the second half of October 2019. (Photograph: Hanidah Amin)
It is a jaw-dropping i,111 metres and takes an estimated four minutes to ride from start to end – and now the newest water slide at the Escape theme park in Penang, Malaysia, has been officially recognised as the world's longest tube water slide.
On Wednesday (Sep 25), theme park operator SIM Leisure Group received a Guinness World Tape certificate from an official adjudicator.
The water slide smashes a previous tape for tube h2o slides of 356 metres held by the Galaxy Erding in Frg. Other water slides at Escape are betwixt 250 to 300 metres long. A check of the Guinness Earth Records site indicates in that location is a water slide spanning ii,723 metres downwards a mountain in Lishui, China.
The record-breaking slide meanders through the forested area of the theme park, with an elevation of lxx metres at the showtime. Riders accept a cable car chairlift to get to its entrance on top of a loma.
SIM Leisure Group describes it equally a "four-infinitesimal downhill joyride which zigzags and criss-crosses through natural forest and tree canopies".
"The thought of this water slide came about over frustration that almost fun rides and water slides last merely a few seconds, and having the water slide start on a hilltop at a 70-metre elevation would make this ride last a proficient few minutes. Escape embraces the philosophy of promoting eco-literacy through fun, this h2o slide would ride guests through the jungle down the hill and all the manner to the other side at the h2o park," said Sim Choo Kheng, CEO of Sim Leisure Group.
Sim's experience in edifice other theme parks include the likes of Lost Paradise of Dilmun in Bahrain, Aquapolis in Bulgaria, Water World Yerevan in Armenia, and Vietnam Water Earth in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.
Its latest slide was built in collaboration with Daxin Water Park Equipment Supplies. It has been in the works for ii years and installation took place over eight months. Heavy mechanism was not deployed and structure was done with scaffolding and chain hoists and then equally to preserve the environs.
"Installing the water slide in harsh conditions of the rainforest came with challenges such as constantly having to overcome mosquitoes and predators," said Sim Leisure Group.
Tests of the slide were done with faux homo weight, with more than twenty trips over 10 days earlier the first human exam, said Sim. Additionally, Escape runs weekly equipment maintenance every Monday, when the park is closed.
Inspections of the slide, including physical visual checks, will accept place every forenoon, prior to the park's opening, equally is done for all slides in Escape, he said. Subsequent to that, lifeguards will ride the slides themselves to perform checks and confirm it is safety for use. The slide will as well be monitored by slide attendants along the ride, likewise as with CCTV cameras.
Sim told CNA Lifestyle that riders tin expect to travel less than 4.5 metres per 2nd on the slide, well beneath the speed of normal tube h2o slides where they would travel nearly five to seven metres per 2d. "A tube slide is very safe. Even if y'all run into each other, you're non going to become injure," he said. "Our emphasis was never on having an adrenaline-filled ride. This is a fun ride which rides through nature."
The slide is expected to open to the public in the 2d one-half of Oct. There are no dissever charges for taking the ride. Users need just pay park archway fees, which covers access to its 42 attractions. Walk-in tickets cost RM147 (Due south$48) for visitors between thirteen and threescore years old, and RM97 for children aged four-12 and those above the age of 61.
Source: https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/world-longest-tube-water-slide-penang-escape-theme-park-256771
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