Aquatica - Ivy’s Breakaway Falls Question

[brad813]

The safety requirements for Ihu’s Breakaway Falls is a bit vague, saying approaching 300 lb for a weight limit. Does anyone have any experience and can tell me exactly how this is interpreted. I am doing a DC/SeaWorld/Aquatica trip and weigh usually around 294-296 lb, at 6’1”, so I am wondering about this particular slide.

 

[bearzabout]

The weight limit is likely to be a rather arbitrary number. The web site states that the mechanics of the ride make it safe for people of a certain weight. i would take this to mean the closer you are to either limit, the greater the chance of injury to yourself or others. The rating is most likely conservative, but your risk will be higher than someone of average weight. I did not find evidence of others being injured from the ride, unlike the one at Universal, but my guess is you will create a huge splash once you hit the water at the end.

 

[brad813]

The weight limit is likely to be a rather arbitrary number. The web site states that the mechanics of the ride make it safe for people of a certain weight. i would take this to mean the closer you are to either limit, the greater the chance of injury to yourself or others. The rating is most likely conservative, but your risk will be higher than someone of average weight. I did not find evidence of others being injured from the ride, unlike the one at Universal, but my guess is you will create a huge splash once you hit the water at the end.

Most of my extra weight is stomach and chest, but not massively so. I could see someone who is morbidly obese potentially damaging the door or possibly getting stuck in a tighter area, and that being a safety issue. I am a person who carries my weight relatively well, and really haven’t don’t have many issues with tight spaces(certain rollercoasters being an exception). Thank you for your reply.

 

[kirstenb1]

Have you done this type of ride before? I haven't, but dh has many years ago. Like a lot of teenage boys, he had the opposite problem. He was very skinny when he did an identical ride, and he skipped like a stone at the end of it, and banged himself up pretty bad on the side of it. I'm thinking you'd be fine. We have season passes at Water Country in Williamsburg, and I see a lot of people of all sizes on the identical ride there.

P.S. You're much braver than me!! Just looking at the tube rides terrifies me!!

 

[brad813]

Have you done this type of ride before? I haven't, but dh has many years ago. Like a lot of teenage boys, he had the opposite problem. He was very skinny when he did an identical ride, and he skipped like a stone at the end of it, and banged himself up pretty bad on the side of it. I'm thinking you'd be fine. We have season passes at Water Country in Williamsburg, and I see a lot of people of all sizes on the identical ride there.

P.S. You're much braver than me!! Just looking at the tube rides terrifies me!!

Not exactly. My closest experience was an enclosed tube slide when I was somewhere around my late teens/early 20s and quite a bit lighter(I am 40 now). Doing a day at Discovery Cove, a day at Aquatica, and two at SeaWorld. I never was very intimidated by water slides, save Summit Plummet at Blizzard Beach(did the one next to it and was half blind by the bottom and managed to get airborne a foot off the slide twice).