This is the Most Dangerous Attraction in the World!

This is the Most Dangerous Attraction in the World!

We love adventure and we certainly love thrilling experiences! But with any risky adventure, comes a great deal of responsibility, and some attractions around the world are better left unexplored unless of course, you don’t mind putting your life at risk. Today we’ll talk about the one attraction I consider to be “The Most Dangerous One in the World,” and we’ll have a look at some other attractions that you might remember from other videos that will definitely make you lose your breath (for a few seconds at least). I know a lot of you are craving some outdoor time in some amazing places around the world, so I hope this video inspires you to find some new attraction to try in the near future. I can’t guarantee that you’ll want to try all of them, but at least you’ll know what you’re getting into.

Thunder River Rapids

Every major theme park has its own rapids. Or at least, most of them do. Usually, these are the rides that you can go on with all of your family members. The oldest ones and the youngest ones can ride together as it really doesn’t pose any threat. That was the case of Thunder River Rapids in Dreamworld, Australia. The ride wasn’t the fastest one, or the tallest one, or even the steepest one. It was seriously just a lazy river on which circular rafts would go on, one after another. But all the uneventful record of this ride came to an end back in 2016 when four people died while riding it! This was due to the fact that their raft flipped right when it was arriving on the conveyor belt and the thing kept moving! Apparently, the ride had problems prior to the incident. Some riders say that the artificial river was drained while people were on the ride, and then they filled it back up. But it took them a 45-minute wait while this ride usually only lasts a few minutes! So much for a family-friendly ride! As opposed to other dangerous attractions that I’ll show you, they close this one for good!

Verrückt waterslide
Every major amusement park around the world is constantly looking for ways to improve and be better than everyone else. For that reason, the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City took great pride in the creation of their 170-feet-tall ride. They unveiled it four months after the park opened! Surely, they were convinced that they had a scary, but also very attractive ride. It would take 264 steps for people to get to the top before going down the height of a 17-story drop in just a matter of seconds. But this thing was a disaster waiting to happen. In fact, there were at least 14 different injury reports while the waterslide was operating. And the worst one of them all was the last one: A 10-year-old kid who was thrown from his raft and struck his head against a metal pole before meeting his end. The worst part is that the people at the park were aware of the risks of this ride, and still, they allowed people to go on such a deadly adventure. Good thing the thing is closed now! But it’s unfortunate that it had to take someone’s life for them to realize how bad this was.

Human Trebuchet

When we think of catapults, we often think of medieval times and old-school devices that are no longer used today. But someone had the brightest idea to make a human catapult in the UK! Well, I know what you’re thinking...that wasn’t really a bright idea, but it sounded very appealing back then. This attraction was supposed to be thrilling, but safe. For only $70, people would be launched 75 feet through the air to later fall in a net that was suspended above the ground. It sure sounds risky now that I say it, but things ran pretty smoothly for the most part. But all of that changed back in 2002 when a 19-year-old student from Oxford went on the ride and failed to fall inside the net. Some people who were part of a stunt club tried this trebuchet before this deadly incident, and they noticed that something awful was likely to happen. They say that they were concerned to see that some people were falling right in front of the net, very close to falling out, rather than safely landing in the middle of it! I guess the terrible accident made people realize that building a human catapult was not necessarily a great idea.