Challenge:

How to open the season with a new water slide attraction without the price tag of one. 

Creative Solution:

To entice guests to return season after season, parks almost always offer something new every year. But it doesn’t always need to be a capital investment that builds something from the ground up. 

Since 2008, a pair of water slides named “Tassie’s Twisters” had been thrilling guests riding on inner tubes, taking them down a dark flume and into an open Super Bowl where they swirl around a few times pinned on the inside wall before finishing into a landing pool.  

Fast forward a decade and a half, with sound and light effects in water parks gaining popularity, an idea came to refurbish the beloved attraction and turn it into an immersive experience.  

Covering up the two Super Bowls, these were outfitted with video projections of Australia’s Shark Bay, seemingly bringing guests face to face with mantas, whales, and schools of colourful fish meandering through tall seagrass. Together with an orchestral soundtrack, this is a wonderous experience guests won’t find anywhere else—and aligns spot on with SeaWorld’s overarching theme.