Wavepool near North Korean border goes rogue after power outage in control room!
Kicking around Instagram for laughs this morning is vision of a wavepool gone rogue.
A tsunami-looking thing tears hell out of a tub filled with happy Chinese swimmers, most supported by inflatable rings.
Laughs turn into screams etc.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0l81JnnDAn/
What happened?
Three days ago, at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Amusement Park in the city of Longjing near the border with North Korea, a malfunction in the control room of the “Tsunami” pool caused, uh, waves bigger than had been designed.
Forty-four swimmers were injured, thirty-nine of ’em sent to hospital with busted feet, ribs and so on.
A notice posted by the Longjing city government on Wiebo, China’s only legal social platform, reads,
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I hope no one was seriously injured.
Hey…
It’s bigger than Huntington!!!
Love the herd of killer whales floating in the whitewash in the second video.
When the wave breaks here, don’t be there!
This is what occurs when the “shapers” at the Firewire factory all raid the testing tank. BACK TO WORK!
Just don’t run into the barnacle covered poles …. OR THE DAM !
Leave it on that setting
meanwhile, every other tub employee is forced to pray to at least 4 different deities for “waves bigger than had been designed”
as was previously quoted here a while ago:
“It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Bomb.
Death on a stick out there
Call that a wave pool malfunction? Wait until Yepoon 2.0 blows a gasket, explodes and takes out a low orbit satellite with the shrapnel.
And that’ll just be the music from the sax-leather gimp band.
You won’t wanna be around when the whomping donut goes ka-blooey.
Propaganda!!
Reliable sources from behind the Red Curtain tell me this was routine duck dive training for 2024 olympic hopefuls.
Loudspeakers .Now here this , Now here this . Today’s lesson is an attempt to prepare You , the Brave Few , You Band of 5 Chinese Bros to win The Eddie Invitational …… We will recreate the Waimea Shorebreak for You ….. Could the Brother who can swallow the Sea, now come forward ….
code “red”
on other news, Coastalwatch get funded through government handouts forever only to sell to a US company (Surfline).
Go Doug!
The Great Leap Forward In Wave Pool Technology and Re-education……….Wash away thy Sins …… On a more serious note where the fuck was JOB( and his sidekick Poopies) …. Surely RedBull must be interested in Red China ?
That’s the most powerful wave in a wave pool EVER. Somebody get on it!
And they all said it couldnt be scaled up! Just fkn do it.
It’s clearly become self aware.
I’m sorry Dognuts , I am afraid I can’t do that …… 2019 A Surf Odyssey
Sentient wave pools – what an idea!
Crown casino junkets
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https://www.theguardian.com…
Gotta say that’s the first cleanup set I’ve ever seen in a wavepool..
Could be useful teaching tool to discourage the vals l..
Clean up set! Good one bro.
Given the swimming skills of most Chinese tourists I see at our beaches, I’d say it’d be a miracle if nobody died in this incident.