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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why these talented designers did not hire real engineers to double check the design of this ride.

The injury to this boy was horrific and that netting that they used may have prevented the raft from going airborne and being launched off the tube entirely.  But did they not account for what would happen to a person on that ride if they were launched into that netting?  It appears that there are even designed gaps at points along the netting.  If someone slammed into the edge of the netting at one of those gaps they would sustain an horrific injury - whether they themselves went airborne off the raft or the raft was launched upwards into that area.

I'm wondering now how many near misses there were before this happened to Caleb.

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I would think that without the netting, he would have been launched off the ride entirely, and died a horrific death when he slammed into the pavement instead.[/quote]

That is not the point as I see it.  They knew there was a danger of people or rafts flying off and instead of fixing it completely they added netting with apparently little thought about what would happen if a person hit the netting going 70 mph.[/quote]

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