Water coaster (jets)
A slide that goes UP hills as well as down! Powerful water jets in the floor push your tube uphill.A slide with uphill sections. High-pressure jets in the flume floor fire along the direction of travel and shove the tube up each hill. Invented by Jeff Henry at NBGS; the first Blasters opened at Schlitterbahn New Braunfels in May 1994 after the technology swept three IAAPA awards in 1993. WhiteWater West acquired the rights in 2006 and counts 200-plus installations. ProSlide's water-jet equivalent is RocketBLAST (first: Singha, Siam Park, 2015).
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The first one, the Master Blaster, opened at Schlitterbahn in Texas in 1994, invented by a man called Jeff Henry. WhiteWater now makes them and over 200 exist. The tallest ones are about 26 metres high. ProSlide's version is the RocketBLAST.
- Master Blaster (1996)
- 65 ft tall · 1,100 ft long
- Massiv (2016)
- 24.86 m - Guinness tallest water coaster
- Tsunami Surge (2021)
- 86 ft · 950 ft · 28 mph
The water jets are so strong they could fill a bath in a few seconds.