There are plenty of water toys, a water screw and a very low triple chute, a playground-type slide that is covered over with dolphin scenery.Ī yellow slide designed for rafts that can support a maximum of two people. This area is ideal for toddlers, small children and infants. Up to two riders are permitted at a time.Ī small, dolphin-themed play park for children. It also has a small platform at the bottom which slows riders down and lets them plop into the pool gently and slowly, instead of dropping in hard and fast. This slide is ideal for small children, as it is fast enough to be fun, but slow enough not to be scary. Parents may not slide down with their children.Ī beginner slide designed for small children that drops into a 1' splashdown pool. Note: Slides in this area are one at a time. The water level is less than a few centimeters deep, making it ideal for small children. Caribbean Cove contains 3 slides, pipes, pull ropes, water buckets, rope walks, and a 1200-liter bucket that dumps water down the front of the structure every 2 minutes. Beginner slides SlideĪ large play structure constructed in 2008 to replace The Little Caribbean. Visible in this photo are the Howler, Twister, and the original design of the Blue Bullet. In September 2018, the water park underwent a $2.5 million renovation including repainting the wavepool, renovated cabanas, additional bathrooms, new beach area flooring and upgraded signage. For these activities, the waves are often programmed for increased intensity and continuous operation.

Most evenings, after regular park business hours, the Blue Thunder wave pool is used by clubs for surfing, kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding. Every now and then, the large crowd of people in the pool will jokingly scream after hearing the air horn, a common behavior among frequent users of the wave pool. The start of every session is marked with a loud air horn blast, warning swimmers to be ready for a wave to flip them over. It is arguably the most popular attraction in the park, as many swimmers (most with inner tubes) can be found bobbing in the water. Waves are generated (in 10 minutes on, 5 minutes off sessions) of approximately 1.2 to 1.5 m (3.9 to 4.9 ft), utilizing only the 8 active wave panels. For many years, the (4) panels in the two outer wave bays have been disabled, apparently due to the waves being far too intense, resulting in injuries guests were being thrown into each other when all 12 panels were operating, as they were in the 1980s. This wave pool has four active wave bays, each with 2 panels operated by a 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) hydraulic system (8 total active panels). While some parts did temporarily close, the whole park didn't close down until mid March 2020. In 2020, the world water park for the first time temporarily closed due to coronavirus. The highest slides in the park are Twister, Sky screamer and Cyclone, which are all 25.3 m (83 ft) high. It has a maximum capacity of 5,000 guests, an average air temperature of 31 ☌ (88 ☏) and contains the world's largest indoor wave pool with a capacity of 12.5 million liters

Opened to the public in 1986, it is the second largest indoor water park in North America, after American Dream's DreamWorks Water Park which opened on October 1, 2020. World Waterpark is a water park located within the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sun Runner (the yellow slide) is also visible in the background.

The Blue Thunder wave pool as seen from a platform of the web of staircases used to access the slides.

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