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Shipwreck Rapids
River Rapids at SeaWorld San Diego, San Diego, California. Opened 1999.
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- Designer
- Intamin
Shipwreck Rapids is a river rapids ride at SeaWorld San Diego, themed to a shipwreck. It opened on May 29, 1999.
Riders board round rafts that seat up to nine from a rotating platform. The course winds through several sets of rapids, under a dripping cargo net and past a sea turtle exhibit, with water cannons along the banks. Near the end the rafts pass under a waterfall into a mostly dark cave before a final rapid and a lift back to the station. The park rates the splash level as soaked.
Riders must be at least 42 inches tall.
Sources
- seaworld.com/san-diego/rides/shipwreck-rapids (Park page: water ride; winding river turns to whitewater rapids before plunging through a waterfall finale; splash level soaked; 42 in minimum.)
- seaworld.com/san-diego/rides (Official ride list: Shipwreck Rapids, river raft ride, 42 in minimum, 74 in maximum.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Rapids (Opened May 29, 1999; circular rafts for up to 9 riders; rotating boarding platform; rapids, cargo net, small drop between waterfalls, water cannons, sea turtle exhibit, waterfall into a dark cave, chain lift.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_San_Diego (Shipwreck Rapids, Intamin river rapids ride themed as a shipwreck.)
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