Now this is a loooong waterslide!
In the video, Action Park employee Jason Mulder donned a GoPro for NJ Advance Media and rode down a nearly 2,000-foot-long water slide at the Sussex County water park.
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+6Submitted 8 years ago by tehdiplomat
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+5Submitted 8 years ago by MrFaust
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Feel free to correct my math...
The travel takes place from contact made at :04 to 1:07. Meaning 1:03 of travel, converted to seconds: 63
Formula: Speed = Distance ÷ Time
5280 feet per mile, if they traveled the full 2000 feet: 2000 / 5280 = .378 miles
.378 miles in 63 seconds = 21.6 mph
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34.7618 kmh 9.6560 meters/sec 1900.7999 feet/minute
Sounds about right, while your calculation focuses on the average speed I think I saw some areas where he was going slower and others where he was going faster, which would mean that he very likely had a top speed of about 40 kmh which is pretty damn impressive.
Math, so useful
That would be awesome to have a 2nd one right beside it used for racing.
If this slide were a little more extreme, I'd say that wasn't muddy water.
Oil or lubricant would do the trick
Poo. I was talking about poo.
Face first!
That looks cool. Its only 2 hours away from where i live. If only I had kids so i could have an excuse of going.
Is this sussex in the south east of england? If it is, I would love to go on it!
Sussex County New Jersey. The original Action Park is quite the local legend around here. I've added a link in the related section.
Thanks
Smart to use a ski resort to build this on.
Wow. That looked awesome. When I was a kid, the only waterslide we had access to was in our backyard, and measured about 3m. I want to try this :P
Looks awesome!
I just really want to know who peed all the way down and how big a bladder they would have to do that.
That was diarrhea, baby
Action Park! Infamously once called "Class-Action Park" thanks to an unfortunate history of dangerous but thrilling attractions.
Back in business...and (from what I hear) safer.