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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How on earth can netting cause decapitation? I understand the raft was traveling at high speeds, but this is just insane to me.

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There was at least one gap on the slide that did not have netting - this gap appears to be there as part of the design, not because the net got torn or anything.  If a person launched up from the raft at that gap and their neck collided with the edge of that netting structure --- ^ ---- at 65 or so mph they would be badly injured.[/quote]

Someone isn't going to randomly launch upwards.  They're only going to launch upwards at the point where they have upward momentum, and the raft starts to turn down, which is at the top of the second hill.  
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See 13:34.  There are water jets that launched the raft up the second hill and caused it to go airborne before it crested the hill.[/quote]

My point is that the gaps, at the bottom of the first hill, are not at a point where the raft would go airborne.  [/quote]

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