Teahupoo setting: Chinese wavepool malfunctions; forty-four injured!

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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Epicstruggler
Epicstruggler
7 years ago

I hope no one was seriously injured.

Paulo De Tarso Duarte
Paulo De Tarso Duarte
7 years ago

Hey…
It’s bigger than Huntington!!!

Wilbur
Wilbur
7 years ago

Love the herd of killer whales floating in the whitewash in the second video.

Wilbur
Wilbur
7 years ago

When the wave breaks here, don’t be there!

Thruster_Truster
Thruster_Truster
7 years ago

This is what occurs when the “shapers” at the Firewire factory all raid the testing tank. BACK TO WORK!

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago

Just don’t run into the barnacle covered poles …. OR THE DAM !

Davis Lawson
Davis Lawson
7 years ago

Leave it on that setting

Owen's Outgoing Tide
Owen's Outgoing Tide
7 years ago

meanwhile, every other tub employee is forced to pray to at least 4 different deities for “waves bigger than had been designed”

Owen's Outgoing Tide
Owen's Outgoing Tide
7 years ago

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

Lard Hamilton
Lard Hamilton
7 years ago

Bomb.

Foamie Lord
Foamie Lord
7 years ago

Death on a stick out there

Antipodes
Antipodes
7 years ago

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.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago
Reply to  Antipodes

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.

Jordy's pout
Jordy's pout
7 years ago

Propaganda!!
Reliable sources from behind the Red Curtain tell me this was routine duck dive training for 2024 olympic hopefuls.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  Jordy's pout

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 ….

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago

code “red”

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
7 years ago

on other news, Coastalwatch get funded through government handouts forever only to sell to a US company (Surfline).

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
7 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel

Go Doug!

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago

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 ?

Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll
7 years ago

That’s the most powerful wave in a wave pool EVER. Somebody get on it!

Krill
Krill
7 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

And they all said it couldnt be scaled up! Just fkn do it.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

It’s clearly become self aware.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  Dogsnuts

I’m sorry Dognuts , I am afraid I can’t do that …… 2019 A Surf Odyssey

https://youtu.be/ARJ8cAGm6JE

Antipodes
Antipodes
7 years ago
Reply to  Dogsnuts

Sentient wave pools – what an idea!

Krill
Krill
7 years ago

Crown casino junkets

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago
Reply to  Krill

“The company’s website, translated from Mandarin, said the first thing tourists should feel in Australia was to be a wilderness hunter in the mountains.

“Even if you don’t have any shooting experience, it doesn’t matter,” it said. “With professional guidance, you will be a great shooter!”

“Hares, foxes, wombats, wild ducks, red deer, sambars … A variety of wild animals to spend a happy holiday with you.””

https://www.theguardian.com…

91350
91350
7 years ago

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..

samwaters
samwaters
7 years ago
Reply to  91350

Clean up set! Good one bro.

Chad Lebrone
Chad Lebrone
7 years ago

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.


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