This is horrifying. Supposed to be a press conference soon with more details. Rumors seem to indicate it happened on the Verrukt, the world's tallest waterslide.
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
The only ones I saw had blood on the slide.
Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58:
Not seeing anything, other than pics from distance of what appears to be blood near the top of the slide.
NSFL = Not Safe for Life?
LATE EDIT: Nothing's confirmed. Tweet I saw was an up close picture of what looked like blood on the slide from a firefighter (not even sure if he's local) and he ended up taking it down. There are still a few grainy shots out there but people are disputing that its blood, saying the stain has been there for a while. There's all kinds of conflicting reports about what happened so I won't speculate until we get more clarification. [Reply]
There is a video of a run of the ride taken from the POV of a rear facing camera at the feet of the rider. Late in the video, at around the 38 or 39 second mark, there appears to be the beginning of a cage/netting structure that covers a segment of the slide. That's the only point in the ride that I see where a rider could be going fast enough that getting air might lead to a decapitation, and I would imagine that the recirculating pump could bring enough bodily fluid back to the beginning of the ride that there might be a visible red mark of some kind. [Reply]