Posted by Ashley McChesney on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 @ 11:33 AM
Omaka Rocka, the new water slide at SeaWorld's Aquatica Water Park is now open to guests.
See more info about Aquatica's Omaka Rocka Water Slide here.
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Posted by Ashley McChesney on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 @ 12:49 PM
Omaka Rocka will be the new water slide coming to SeaWorld's Aquatica water park that should be open to the public sometime this month. As you can see from the photos below it is pretty much ready for riding. This is the first addition to the Aquatica park since it opened in 2008. See more photos and details of how the slide works here.
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Posted by Ashley McChesney on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 @ 11:22 AM
Omaka Rocka will be the new water slide coming to SeaWorld's Aquatica water park that should be open to the public this coming March. This is the first addition to the Aquatica park since it opened in 2008.
Ride Details:
- It will share a platform with Whanau Way, on the wave-pool side of the park.
- Whanau Way tower was built with another ride in mind for the future - but Omaka Rocka is not the ride that was originally planned for that spot.
- There will be two slides with three funnels each.
- The half-pipe element will provide "near weightlessness"
- Guests will ride in two-seater floats on the ride.
- There will be no height restriction, although you must be able to hold onto the grips and maintain the riding position throughout.
- Although portions of the Omaka Rocka will be enclosed, the tubing will be "semi-transparent," allowing more light in.
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Posted by Ashley McChesney on Mon, Jan 11, 2010 @ 01:36 PM
Polar Plunge will be hosted at SeaWorld's Aquatica in Orlando for the Special Olympics Florida this year.
The event will be on the morning of Jan. 16, and participants will be able to spend the rest of the day at Aquatica.
"We're turning the heaters off in one of wave pools... We're expecting it's probably going to get somewhere between 65 and 68 degrees. It really depends on the ambient air temperature as to how cold it will get."
-Rick Beddow, Aquatica vice president
By the way this past weekend (one week before the event) in Orlando was around 35 degrees.
"It's a huge revenue-generating, fund-raising event for Special Olympics chapters. Some states hold 20 to 25 Plunges a year."
-Amie Dugan, vice president for marketing and communications for Special Olympics Florida
Participants who raise $50 or more get a day at the water park, a commemorative T-shirt and a chance to take a in the icy-ish waters of the wave pool. There are incentives to raise more, including all-day food passes, tickets for future trips to Aquatica and SeaWorld, Publix gift cards and hotel stays. People who want to raise money but stay on dry ground can register as "Virtual Plungers." Minimum age to participate is 15 years old.
More details and registration information at www.specialolympicsflorida.org.
Day-of registration will begin at 9:30 a.m., followed by opening ceremonies at 11 a.m. Special Olympics participants will hit the cold waves first, then event folks in groups of about 100, Beddow says. It will be a wade-in sort of thing - no diving.
The intent is to make Aquatica's Polar Plunge an annual event.
Via: Orlando Sentinel
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Posted by Ashley McChesney on Wed, Dec 30, 2009 @ 10:07 AM
We reported in November about new slides coming to Aquatica in 2010, and now even more details are coming out.
- The ride will be called Omaka Rocka, which means rocking river.
- It will share a platform with Whanau Way, on the wave-pool side of the park.
- Whanau Way tower was built with another ride in mind for the future - but Omaka Rocka is not the ride that was originally planned for that spot.
- There will be two slides with three funnels each.
- The half-pipe element will provide "near weightlessness"
- Guests will ride in two-seater floats on the ride.
- There will be no height restriction, although you must be able to hold onto the grips and maintain the riding position throughout.
- Although portions of the Omaka Rocka will be enclosed, the tubing will be "semi-transparent," allowing more light in.
- Construction is under way, and passersby should be able to see the tubing go up during the first half of January. Although the good people at Screamscape.com found pictures of pieces of the new ride back in November.
Part of Omaka Rocka half pipe at SeaWorld
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Posted by Ashley McChesney on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 02:40 PM
Rumors have recently been confirmed for the expansion of SeaWorld's Aquatica water park. The new project is expected to open in the spring of 2010. (via Latimes)
The recently opened SeaWorld Aquatica water park in Orlando, Fla. will add four first-of-a-kind water slides in 2010, including a pair of inner-tube rides that go uphill with the help of a hydro-magnetic launch.
The twin Tornado Walls are V-shaped slides that start with a magnetic launch that shoots a six-person inflatable raft up the face of a vertical wall. One of the two launch sequences travels through a tunnel. After reaching the top of the water wall, the rafts race down the incline and along an uphill outrun with a small whoop-de-do hill.
Also on tap for Aquatica in 2010:
A 40-foot-tall Topsy-Turvy pipeline complex that features a pair of traditional looping water slides combined with a series of funnel-like attractions where riders swirl and spin before continuing on with their journey.
Riders on the two-person inner tubes can choose between two Topsy-Turvy tracks - a 285-foot-long run with two funnels or a longer 460-foot-long route with four funnels.
The four new water slides were on display this week at the ProSlide exhibit during the International Assn. of Amusement Parks and Attraction (IAAPA) convention in Las Vegas.
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