Australian Waterslides & Leisure Pty Ltd has designed three Body Rides for Tea Tree Gully Aquatic Centre in Adelaide. Two of the rides are 800mm-diametre tube and open Fast Straight Line Drop slides. The other is a combination of 1,200mm diameter tube and open Reversebanked SupaJet slide.
On the straight line drop slides, riders are plunged down a 9m (30ft) drop at 45 degrees before landing into runouts. The rides have a minimal water delivery (20 to 30 litres per second) to lubricate the rides, making them faster as well as more environmentally friendly. The company wrote its own flume calculation software programme integrated with AutoCAD to enable safe and exciting configurations to be designed accurately and utilising 3D modelling.
All rides can give a different experience for the riders – in the case of body rides, the ride experience can differ due to the type of swimmers the ride is carrying (giving a varied co-efficient between ride surface and the rider) also due to water volumes, and rider weight. All rides are designed so that the rides fall within the safety parameters of all variables.
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