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Shipwreck Falls
Shoot-the-Chutes at Six Flags Darien Lake, Corfu, New York. Opened 2002.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
- 50 ft
- Top speed
- n/a
- Length
- n/a
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Intamin
Shipwreck Falls is a shoot-the-chutes water ride at Six Flags Darien Lake in Darien Center, New York. Built by Intamin, it opened in 2002, and the park calls it its ultimate flume ride.
Riders board a flat-bottomed boat that floats along a calm channel, climbs a lift hill and rounds a turn before sliding down a 50-foot ramp into a lagoon. The boat hits the water hard enough to throw up a wave that the park says reaches 20 feet, soaking the riders and anyone standing on the observation deck beside the splashdown, so visitors can get wet without riding.
The park warns that riders will get soaked. It lists a minimum height of 42 inches and a maximum of 74 inches.
Sources
- sixflags.com/darienlake/attractions/shipwreck-falls (Park page: Shipwreck Falls, 'the ultimate flume water ride'; calm river ride, then a 50-foot waterfall drop into the lagoon creating 20-foot waves; observation deck gets soaked; 42-inch minimum, 74-inch maximum height.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_Lake (Shipwreck Falls, Intamin shoot-the-chutes, 2002: flat-bottomed boat climbs a lift hill, rounds a turn and slides down a ramp into a lagoon, soaking riders and onlookers.)
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