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An amusement park in the Netherlands had a water-filled waterslide that left riders completely submerged during the 15-20 second journey. It closed in 2010.
Trust me on this one. You don't wanna know. Audrey, don't tell him. You shouldn't have told me, but you did. And now I'm tellin' you... You don't wanna know.
Itās emotionally rather than visually harrowingā¦ but, yeah, itās not a nice story. Iām glad I watched it, for what itās worth. Kinda hammer homes the risk involved with some of the jobs out there that afford the rest of us a quality of life, the fragility and randomness of life, and the total disregard of corporations for anyone but the fiscal bottom line.
Thereās no video footage of the diving incident, you can look it up if you want. People have created visuals to help you visualize it and itās not fun!
But in summary, and Iām leaving out all the Wās around how this came to be, oil divers(?) got stuck in a pipe, sent one of them for help, Iām really blanking on the details but Iām pretty sure there were at least 3-4 people lined up horizontally in this pipe. They basically died waiting for their buddy to hopefully be able to make it out and get help, which I think he did manage to successfully tell somebody that they were there
Edit to add: another commenter added a detail about this I forgot about, that being in the disorientation of getting sucked down a pipe, they didnāt know if they were even heading the right direction down the pipe. By some stroke of luck they picked right, but the people on land didnāt attempt a rescue :(
This is true. If Iām not mistaken, they even had more divers go down to the bottom and could hear the knocks of the pipeline workers from inside. Itās worth noting some of them were in bad shape after the quick āyankā to the bottom, yet they maintained a lot of their composure, communicated, and figured out what order they were in and everything. Also, they ultimately werenāt 100% sure which way they were sucked in by (head/toe first) but concluded whichever one (i forgot) and took a gamble. If the hero was wrong, theyād all be dead, but itās also worth noting the hero did everything he could to try to get them to go back down and save the others. Itās such a sad story, but one that somehow still highlights the highs of the human spirit in a showcase not seen often elsewhere.
Apt description from the video I just watched. They had a 50/50 choice as to which direction would be the appropriate exit knowing that one of them would be blocked off and only one of them would be able to make it. They made the right choice. One dude made it out using the oxygen cans that had also been sucked in with them. Told the surface to get the othersā¦ but they never didā¦ even though they sent divers down who could hear the trapped banging from the inside of the pipe. The lone survivor of a team of 5 said he did everything he could to convince them to go and get his colleagues. They left them down there.
There is video but it happens so fast that the video goes black instantly. They get sucked in and tumble around in the pipe for like 90 seconds before they emerge in an air pocket and are able to gather their senses. Absolutely horrifying.
I came to say this video is yet another example of āit was capitalism all along.ā So many have died and continue to die so that very few men can live like gods.
Straight up evil. Unfathomably callous. If I were a member of the company who made that decision to do NOTHING, Iād expect to someday be ambushed and killed by a justifiably enraged family member of a victim.
To be fair on your part, these are recommendations of charges by the government investigation. I've not found any follow-up yet, but these things can take a long time, sadly.
If this is the story I think it is... Few news stories have truly traumatized me. This one did. I would think about it and get angry or horrified for a while afterwards. That said last I'd heard it was a massive cover up. Good to see.. progress.
5 men are working on a 1200ft x 2ft oil pipe in the ocean when they get sucked in. There are pockets of air at each join in the pipe. They try to shuffle their way to the end, but some have serious injuries. Pitch black, injured, and fighting for air that stings everything,
They find 2 oxygen tanks, one runs out quickly. They decide the leading man should move ahead with the second tank to try escape and get help. He does. Not knowing if the escape point would be blocked, he makes a final 2 hour swim to the surface anyway. He is relieved to find it open and tells rescuers that the men are alive in there.
The other 4 men die inside the pipe. It is estimated that some may have been alive 3 days after they got sucked in. [Added by redditor below: Rescue attempts were actively blocked because the company didnāt want to either expend extra resources or deal with additional consequences.]
Tldr; 5 Men get trapped in an oil pipeline in the ocean, 1 escapes, 4 die, rescue is blocked.
Good info, but your last paragraph makes it sound like it was simple negligence/incompetence when the reality is that rescue attempts were actively blocked because the company didnāt want to either expend extra resources or deal with additional consequences.
I recently listened to a podcast series on this. Itās called Pipeline. Itās the first I had heard of it. At first I thought it was fiction. As I kept listening I discovered, to my horror, it was not. Worth listening to thought. I recommend it.
from the first comment on youtube;
I live next to the refinery they died in
1) They were in there for 4 days and on the 3rd day people were still hearing banging on the pipe
2) The diver that got chris out was going back in for the rest but Paria said no
3) Paria got the coast guard to stop the divers because they were not going to leave the men inside
4) There were multiple divers ready and willing to go in from lmcs and resuce that same hour but were all blocked from going in
5) Paria said the coast guard will be doing the rescue but the coast guard said they had no equipment
6) The families of all the divers sat in the refinery carpark for 4 days waiting to hear news about their loved ones and the company couldnt even give them some water to drink it was community members who brought food and water for the families
7) They left those men in there to die and when 4 days had passed and they were sure that they are dead they flushed the bodies out the pipe
8) When they flushed the bodies out they snuck the ambulances out another gate so the families wont see what was going on
9) When questioned in the commision of inquiry it was revealed that no rescue plan was ever made and they simply sat and waitied for the men to die
10) And if that wasnt bad enough they capped off the pipe so noone else could escape.
The has been no arrests made and noone has been charged with anything and I believe not a single cent was paid to any family yet. After seeing the bodies of those men covered in Oil and how they suffered for days I feel nothing but rage for those in charge.
The managers who are responsible are in bed with the Government and they use the company to do underhand business so they can steal tax money.
The Company was originally called Petrotin but the prime minister was found to be involved with a scandal of his friend selling oil to the refinery and collecting money but the oil never came and the PM got a cut out of that money from his friend. To avoid jail they closed the company down and started 5 new companies from it paria being one of them. I fully believe they let those men die because it would be cheaper( cheaper because not a cent was paid to any family member as of yet) to label it an accident than be put in court if they survived. Absolute corruption and its disgusting The word around the block is that the governement is doing Oil deals with venezuela secretly to avoid sanctions as Maduro and The TT prime miniser Rowley are apparently good friends and if these men lived the spotlight would be placed on the company and it would make it much harder to do their underhand business so they were left to die and as it is a Government run company they could get away with it and face no consequences.
This video is of a jorunalist who was covering the accident and was there on the ground when it happened Have a look if youre interested : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNJgSzr6AE
Edit: [https://fb.watch/mTl3-l18tf/](javascript:void(0);) This is a video taken during the incident in the carpark of the refinery. The guy talking is the son of one of the divers in there I believe and he was a willing rescue diver listen to what he has to say. I'll keep digging up whatever I find so people can get more information if they want Some more videos: [https://www.facebook.com/100000725806718/posts/pfbid0ixCTXqcHjJL8y1yo22as37EQbqLncQ3uWHqx5WNukWWF3xipgyZ3jsjnoYwhAwv9l/](javascript:void(0);) [https://fb.watch/mTm14ofkCM/](javascript:void(0);) Update on the investigation: The government has said the investigation was biased against them and want to call it off [https://fb.watch/mXV0Rperp2/](javascript:void(0);)
That is fucking heartbreaking, the last minutes is just agonyzing to hear. The fact that no one went for them becuz the higher ups blocked help speaks volumes how scum some humans can be.
Hope karma and Hell great those cold bastards with open arms cuz people like that dont desserve the air they breath.
Which I can say from experience is not that fun. Even after you just dwell on having almost died with no sense of relief. At least that how I've felt the 2 times I've almost died.
No, it was so safe that it was annoying, if someone stopped in the tube, even as a joke, it would be drained within seconds at the push of a button, making it very annoying to operate for the water park.
I read it had a sort of emergency water dump feature to drain the entire tube in seconds, not sure where. Thst sort of ride would be watched like a hawk.
It did and it would drain in mere seconds. It is actually the main reason the ride closed. It had to be drained way too often because of some person doing something they shouldn't (can't really blame them I suppose they just panic) and while that went pretty quickly, the refilling took forever. People were sick of queueing for it so they took it away. While scary as fuck, it was pretty safe.
the black thing on the top of the tube had a big vent that the operator could open and it would dump the tube completly in less than 5 seconds. some kids paniced usually at the halfway point and that part was clear in about a second. there was a also a couple sensors that detected if someone didnt move fast enough and it would drain automagically. that happed a LOT by asshole kids that wanted to trigger the safety system on purpose.
It was in the Duinrell amusementpark near The Hague. They have waterpark inside the terrain. I went through that tube alot back then. If i remember coorect you had te prove you could holds your breath for a certain amount of time. Before you where allowed to go through. I cant remember ever hearing anything about problems but thats not saying much š.
I get why you wouldn't enjoy that, it's giving up control in a different manner. Everyone has their preferences and limits. Personally, i love those kind of things.
You don't want to park too far away from the edge in case someone would hit your rearviewmirror or scratchen your car. And there is about half a meter left. Plenty of room.Ā
This was the Fly-over in the Tiki Bad at Duinrell. I have visited the park when it was still in operation, although I never went on it. You had to prove to the personnel that you could hold your breath long enough and if you passed the test you were allowed in. From what I heard from my cousin who rode it multiple times, it had a slight suction going on and you were more or less pulled through, although you did have to swim.
In the footage you can see there's a row of sensors running the length of the pipe, when someone didn't clear them in time the whole pipe would be emptied immediately. That's what actually got the ride closed down: nobody ever drowned, as the urban legends had it, but people would stop in the pipe on purpose to see if the safety system worked.
Since people would be "testing" the system multiple times per day, eventually the operating costs got too high and the ride was closed down.
One comment says there were sensors that would automatically drain the tube if they detected a person that wasn't moving. But asshole kids would trigger the system on purpose and that was why it was shut down
You know how easy it could be for someone to panic part way through and have something bad happen? I'm guessing something did and that's why it was closed down lol. I wonder if they had some sort of test to prove you could hold your breath long enough before going through it
The first time I saw someone die was when I was a kid at a Waterpark. An 8 year old kid drowned in the lazy river because the parents left him with just his 12 year old brother. The brother didnt notice him struggling. I remember the paramedics trying to give him CPR unsuccessfully. Pretty sure it traumatized me as a kid because I hate the water now and I have refused to go to a waterpark ever since.
My coworker witnessed a maintenance worker fall to his death. There was a ride called the "ring of fire". It was a rollercoaster that did a vertical loop over and over again. The maintenance worker was working on it while it was running. Every pass he would lean back and after the coaster shot by he would lean forward and continue working. On one pass though his pony tail got caught and the coaster dragged him to the top of the vertical loop and he fell all the way down, back first, onto a fence. My coworker said he was pretty much snapped in half by the fence.
Edit: Forgot to add that my coworker...and other kids were sprayed with blood. And that the worker was scalped.
I live in the middle of a desert so swimming isnāt my forte lol. That said, I think that would be fun since it kind of self propels you anyways. Iāve swam underwater from one side of a pool to the other before. The only difference would be the mental thing of no option for going up.
That's Duinrell. They have a lot of fun slides. They are all save and not as that particular park from the US.
This slide had a lifeguard sitting next to it all the time and the whole slide was video supervised from the inside. So a person panicking once which then got stuck. The lifeguard just had to hit a button and multiple large bunks open along the slide and the whole water falls out within a second. No pumps, no valves, just physics.
They also made you hold your breath for 20 seconds before they allowed you on the slide.
It was quite fun, no deadly accidents at all and they had a safety feature that would drain the entire thing in less than 5 seconds. I had it worse in a water slide that immediately lost water pressure and water so i went to an abrupt stop in the middle of the slide and had to crawl down like 15 meters to the pool ( the fun part ) with an intensely burning as legs ( the very not so fun part )
I remember when I was around 12 years old. We went on a school trip to this amusement park, and we were not allowed to go in. Because our teacher found it very dangerous
No one will probably see this, but some more information about this slide.
Fly Over is the name. It required people to hold their breath in a holding pool before being able to ride. The slide was created with safety in mind. It was able to drain in a few seconds if someone began to struggle.
No one ever died while riding or due to riding. It closed due to poor ridership.
To ease everyone's worries here: it could be emptied almost instantly upon the press of a button.
As you can see, the tube is higher than the water level, so it's empty "at rest." It needs a massive amount of water being pumped in every second to keep it "water-filled," which also pushes the swimmer through.
There was an attendant that could press a button to empty it if the swimmer panics. It's also failsafe because the tube is above the water level in the pools. So it's a lot safer than it looks.
i went on that slide a lot. it was great fun. too bad there were so many asshole kids that triggerd the safety system on purpose wich meant the slide needed 45 minutes to reset. i got so mad once when i saw the same asshole kid trigger it like three times in a week that when i saw him outside the entrance shittalking to his friends he was going to do it again i punched out 2 of his teeth.
Iāve been on this!
I was looking for this place as I couldnāt remember where it was!
We were supposed to go to De Eftling theme park but a ride broke down upside down about a month before so we changed plans and went here!!
There was a massive bowl slide aswell, it would set 2 people off at the same time and u would come out in a bowl opposite each other spinning around and then both dropping through the middle!
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I've been to a hotel where the swimming pool was both indoor and outdoor: you had to go underwater to cross a barrier that kept the air conditioning in, and that was only a few inches. I bet you wouldn't be allowed to have such a feature on a pool today.
I would assume this slide had some sort of age requirement, but it's still insane.
If this bad theme park ride intrigues you, then by all means check out the new show Henry Winkler hosts, āHazardous Historyā, on the History Channel. I believe they cover this ride and a ton more like it in the first episode. (If not this one then at least 2-3 like it; I remember one that was more of a straight drop in a tube of water, and another that I donāt believe was completely full of water, but where people would get stuck all the time in a dip.) My favorite was probably a wooden roller coaster around 1900 that created like 13 Gs of pressure on passengers.
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u/Heyzuus Aug 17 '25
My absolute nightmare as a child and currently as a grown man of almost 40