ProSlide Technology
Canadian water ride manufacturer and designer
ProSlide Technology, Inc. is a Canadian designer and manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They design and manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides. ProSlide has received attention for being the first water slide manufacturer to build a water slide using linear induction motors and for designing the Mammoth watercoaster which was named the world's longest watercoaster by Guinness World Records in 2016. Since 1986, ProSlide has developed and designed water rides for water parks in over 40 countries around the world.
Models
Proslide makes a number of different model lines, some in different sizes. The ones in different sizes have names which are the name of the model, followed by a number, indicating the size. Their slide models are:
Tornado-18, 24, 32, 45 & 60. This consists of a main funnel that riders enter on a raft. This is, as Rick Hunter (president & CEO) says, “a serpentine in run, then we have a funnel experience, then we have a serpentine out run.”
TornadoWave-45, 60, double TornadoWave 60 & SwitchBack.
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