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NARRATOR: Next on "Xtreme Waterparks"...
Whoo! Whoo!
NARRATOR: ...the slide that reigns as Italy's most terrifying...
That is not legal. That can't be legal.
NARRATOR: ...a headfirst drop that ends like no other...
I feel like someone just beat me to a bloody pulp.
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: ...American's only ride in need of antivenom...
Don't mess with King Cobra.
Whoo!
NARRATOR: ...and what happens when you give four guys
dish soap and a whole lot of plastic.
Shoulder's out of the socket.
It's ridiculous.
[ All screaming ]
-- Captions by VITAC --
Closed Captions provided by Scripps Networks, LLC.
NARRATOR: We begin overseas in the city of ***,
where couples get steamy in public
and tourists get to second base with a statue for good luck.
So, the waterpark here is wilder than any one-night stand.
[ Screaming ]
We're in northern Italy, just outside the city of Verona.
This is the most extreme waterpark in all Italy.
[ Screaming ]
We have 12 slides here in Caneva and 3 extreme slides.
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: Follow the screams at Caneva
and you'll find the number-one thrill --
a drop-and-shock slide called Stukas.
[ Woman screams ]
Stukas is the fastest slide here in Caneva waterpark.
NARRATOR: It's a vicious drop
that takes your body from zero to 60 miles per hour
in a mind-numbing .3 seconds.
Just as wild is the water jump.
50 feet long, it sends you flying down an enclosed tube
and then over the edge of a waterfall.
[ Screams ]
TAYLOR: If that's the easiest water slide,
then I'm in trouble here today.
NARRATOR: Taylor's an American living abroad in Italy.
TAYLOR: I just kind of wanted
to do something spontaneous after college
and not get my "big-girl" job yet.
NARRATOR: She's checking out Caneva with her roommate, Teodora,
and their favorite bartender, Julian.
These two girls come to the bar, ask for free shots, free drinks.
Oh, my God, they owe me so much.
NARRATOR: Today, Julian's the enforcer,
making sure the girls ride the sketchy stuff,
like Twin Peaks...
[ Screaming ]
NARRATOR: ...a 70-foot drop
that rockets your stomach straight to your throat.
[ Screaming ]
Yeah.
MAN: This is a nightmare!
NARRATOR: And how do you follow a near-vertical drop?
With peak number two and some ridiculous air.
[ Screaming ]
Who's coming with me?
Girls, who wants to come --
Um...I'll come, Julian.
I'm in with Julian.
All right. Here we go.
[ Screaming ]
Oh, my God.
Whoo!
[ Both screaming ]
Whoo!
Whoo!
[ Screams ]
Insane, insane.
JULIAN: So much fun, though.
The second hill, we jumped over it,
and, yeah, it was great.
When we touched the water, I said, "Oh, God, thank you.
I'm alive."
Alessandro, my new friend.
Are you ready?
[ Screaming ]
[ Laughing ] Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh!
That is insane. That is not legal.
That can't be legal.
It scares the crap out of you.
NARRATOR: Unfortunately for Taylor,
there's something scarier just ahead.
196 feet long, 98 feet tall,
Stukas is the highest, the fastest,
the most intimidating slide in all of Italy.
[ Screams ]
It's so scary that 40% chicken out.
[ Whimpers ]
JULIAN: That's insane.
It goes straight down, literally.
That's too much. That's insane.
No, no.
Yes, we do it.
I don't want to do it. [ Chuckling nervously ]
TEODORA: Taylor...
No, no. That is not an option.
I go first.
You go first?
I go totally first.
Oh, my God. Okay.
[ Screams ]
[ Screams ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Shudders ]
Oh, my God.
[ Exhales sharply ]
Oh, my God.
[ Panting ]
That's so fast.
That is so fast, you have no idea.
Nice.
Oh, my God.
Let's get out of here.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. I won't do this.
It's not that scary! Come on!
NARRATOR: For nearly an hour,
the girls are at the top, stalling,
until finally, Teodora strikes a deal.
TAYLOR: Okay.
Okay.
If I knock, that means I changed my mind
and you open it.
Promise me?
[ Screaming ] No!
TAYLOR: Do it.
Look at my legs.
You got it.
Cross your arms. Cross your arms.
I love you. Mwah.
No, wait.
[ Screams ]
[ Laughing ] Oh [bleep]
[ Laughing ]
JULIAN: How was it?
[ Gasps ]
Come on. You're fine.
Yes, you can come up.
I'm dying.
Oh, my god, she's shaking.
She's freaking out.
Oh, God, no.
Oh, my God! No, no, no, no!
No, no, no.
Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of here.
No, no, no. I can't.
Yeah.
I can't do it!
[ Gasps ]
Oh, my God! No, no, no, no!
You can do it, girl!
NARRATOR: In Verona, Italy,
on the country's tallest, most fierce water slide,
No, no, no.
Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of here. No.
Taylor's been at the top for almost an hour,
terrified of the Stukas...
[ Woman screaming ]
...a nine-story free fall
that hits a mind-blowing 60 miles an hour.
Look at this! This is crazy!
Come on, girl! You promised me!
MAN: Gonna do it?
So, you hold the button to my life,
so be very careful with it.
Come on, girl. You can do it.
[ Screaming ]
JULIAN: Here we go.
That's my girl!
JULIAN: How much fun is that?
Oh, you're crying, you're crying.
How much fun was it?
[ Laughing ] I'm never doing that again.
[ Laughing ] Oh, my God, no.
I'm never doing that again.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
That is insane. Why would anyone like that?
It's a crazy sensation of just dropping straight to the ground.
It's as if you're flying,
and you can't even open your eyes.
I'm so happy to see you.
[ Laughs ]
NARRATOR: From northern Italy,
we go to the top of the Rocky Mountains,
where the locals spend their winters skiing,
but come summer, these college friends
take a childhood favorite and make it balls-out extreme.
[ Indistinct screaming ]
[ Woman screams ]
TYLER: The intensity is kind of brought up a lot
by how sketchy it is. [ Chuckles ]
[ Screaming ]
Everyone loves, you know, some sudsy ladies on a slide.
[ Young woman screams ]
NARRATOR: We're in Colorado,
just outside the ritzy town of Vail,
home to Jeremy, Tyler, Christian, and Kyle,
four guys who hate being bored...
Get out of my kitchen!
Here you go.
...which explains how this thing was born.
[ Young woman screams ]
JEREMY: We originally named it The Destroyer
'cause it hurts so bad.
YOUNG MAN: Aah!
TYLER: We've had an arm broken out here.
We've had toes broken.
It destroys people, basically.
Whoa [bleep]
NARRATOR: The Destroyer
is Vail's first homemade public water slide.
300 feet long, 10 feet wide, it's a twice-a-summer party.
Whoo!
The slide almost kind of made us local celebrities.
I mean, you can go to a waterpark
and do slides all day, but it's nothing like this.
NARRATOR: The science behind the guys' slide
is disturbingly simple.
We've kind of perfected it over the years.
NARRATOR: Three industrial-sized rolls of painter's tarp...
Hey, grab some of that tape.
...some contractor's tape to hold it together,
a couple well-placed buckets of water,
and then it's lubed up for speed.
We got all sorts of dish soap and baby oil.
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: Of course, you got to have water...
[ Siren wails ]
[ Horn blares ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
...and it's provided by Vail's finest.
Where's the lube?
Yeah.
Oh, baby.
CHRISTIAN: All right, dude, let's get some hose going.
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
[ Cheers and applause ]
YOUNG WOMAN: Whoo!
TYLER: Ugh!
When the fire truck is just blasting on you,
it looks like a torrential downpour
is just raining down on you,
and there's, you know, 10 people around you,
people behind you, people in front of you.
[ Young woman screams ]
[ Laughs ]
You can't see anything, and you don't know
if you're on the tarp or if you're on the grass
or where you're going.
It's pretty crazy.
[ All scream ]
Whoo!
TYLER: It's just mayhem.
You don't know what's going on till the end.
[ Young woman screams ]
ALL: Whoo!
NARRATOR: This year, the guys decided to add an extra hundred feet
and got a little more bumper car than expected.
We had one trip to the hospital today.
Shoulder's out of the socket.
They don't call it The Destroyer 'cause it tickles.
[ Screams ]
JEREMY: This is the best slide we've done
in all four years.
[ Laughs ] Yeah, yeah!
[ Laughs ]
There we go.
[ Grunts ]
Twice as wide next year.
We're going for double or nothing next year.
CHRISTIAN: Next year, we're going bigger.
[ All screaming ]
NARRATOR: Next, the one-of-a-kind slide
that makes you feel like snake food.
[ Screaming ]
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: From the tallest, most feared slide in Italy...
[ Grunts ]
...to a homemade monster
that thrills an entire Colorado town...
...we're on the hunt
for the world's truly deviant water rides.
Our next stop has sandy beaches, boardwalk babes,
and a waterpark known for all things wild.
[ Screams ]
[ All screaming ]
Your adrenaline's pumping. Your heart is racing.
We are about thrills.
[ Woman screams ]
[ Man screams ]
NARRATOR: We're on the notorious Jersey shore
in the town of Jackson.
The waterpark is Hurricane Harbor --
[ Man screams ]
45 acres, 20 different slides that dare to scare...
[ Woman screams ]
NARRATOR: ...like the King Cobra,
America's first and only reptile-themed racer.
[ Screams ]
KRISTIN: You actually get to feel
like you are sliding down the body of a cobra.
[ Screaming ]
NARRATOR: Hanging next to the snake is a seven-story raft ride.
[ Man screams ]
NARRATOR: Called The Tornado,
it drops you 132 feet in just 3 seconds.
And then it is on.
They are plunging, swooshing back and forth
with such incredible intensity.
[ All screaming ]
NARRATOR: But nothing beats the fear stirred up by Geronimo Falls.
[ Screaming ]
NARRATOR: 76 feet high, it's a 50-mile-an-hour assault.
[ Woman screams ]
[ Screams ]
The first thing they do is look up
and see how far they have to climb.
It builds a lot of anxiety.
NARRATOR: Geronimo's a 294-foot slide that blurs by in 7 seconds.
Whoo!
[ Screaming ]
Oh, my God. That was insane.
You just take off,
and you're just heading straight down.
It's unbelievable.
NARRATOR: Robert's at Hurricane Harbor
with longtime buds Jen, Giana, and Anthony.
We've all been friends for six or seven years.
We like living on the edge. We like to do crazy things.
Kind of like as last hurrah
before we all go back to college.
NARRATOR: It's their last day of freedom,
and nothing says fun like getting swallowed by a snake.
ALL: Oh, wow.
[ Screaming ]
You just look at it, and you have to go on it.
It's just awesome.
NARRATOR: King Cobra starts five stories above the ground,
with back-to-back 360-degree turns.
KRISTIN: There's water coming down on top of them.
It's all very disorienting.
[ Man screams ]
NARRATOR: And that's when you drop 25 feet down,
straight into the cobra's 50-foot jaw.
ALL: Oh!
I'm really, really nervous.
I'm not a big fan of slides like this.
She has to do it.
Ready?
Let's do it.
All right. Ready?
1, 2...
BOTH: 3!
[ Screams ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Both screaming ]
[ Laughing ] Oh!
King Cobra -- it's way more intimidating
than I actually thought it was gonna be,
'cause that drop is just so steep.
ANTHONY: When I just see, like,
the cobra's eyes looking at me, like, "Oh!"
Don't mess with King Cobra. He's scary.
You ready?
I'm excited!
I know.
We're gonna hear the screaming come right out of that tunnel.
Oh, my God!
[ Both women screaming ]
Oh, my God!
[ Both screaming ]
Whoo!
It was awesome.
All my friends totally expected me to chicken out,
but it was great.
That was awesome!
Yeah.
[ Laughs ]
MAN: Oh, my God!
NARRATOR: Next on "Xtreme,"
the only slide that drops you headfirst into deadly waters.
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: So far, we've stomached
the fastest drop in Italy...
...and dog-piled down a homemade slide
in the Colorado Rockies...
...but next is a waterpark so extreme,
it's where Europe's pro athletes go to man up.
[ Man laughs ]
They come here with their friends,
and they're just laughing, like, "Oh, my God,
I did such a great jump."
[ Laughs ]
NARRATOR: We're in eastern France,
at the base of the Alps in a ski town called Tignes.
Whoo-hoo!
Whoo-hoo!
Whoo!
[ Grunts ]
NARRATOR: The park is Acroland, known around the world
for outrageously frigid splash-downs
and a slide that's smoking-hot.
Whoo!
The Hot Jump is not for the weak of heart.
[ Screaming ]
NARRATOR: 114 feet long, the Hot Jump can only be conquered headfirst.
[ Man screams ]
MARGOT: It's a bit painful.
People fall down
in every position that you can imagine.
[ All cheer ]
Oh, my God.
WOMAN: That was great.
This guy -- that's nuts.
NARRATOR: Matt, Kay, and Sonya
Whoo!
All their friends have been raving about the Hot Jump,
with its 40-foot-per-second drop and humiliating hang time.
[ Laughter ]
The fact that we get a chance to try it out ourselves
is just incredible.
Whoo-hoo!
It's gonna hurt.
Oh, it's gonna slap us in the face.
[ Whimpers ]
NARRATOR: Kay's got some big-time concerns.
It's going to be cold. It's going to be icy-cold.
It's going to be like North Pole cold,
and this is coming out from a Canadian.
NARRATOR: Wet suits are mandatory at Acroland, and life jackets.
My heart's racing. This is crazy.
Holy geez!
Come on. You got to go down there first.
Yeah, but this is --
This is just such a poor idea.
We'll push you in if you don't go.
Yeah, okay. All right, all right.
It's game time.
[ Laughs ]
[ Kay and Sonya scream ]
[ Matt screams ]
[ All cheer ]
Whoo!
[ All cheer ]
Oh!
[ Laughing ] It was hilarious.
MATT: You hit the water, and it's like hitting ice.
Everything freezes up. You can't breathe.
I think I blacked out.
[ Laughs ]
You're up, you're up.
All right, let's go, Sonya!
[ Laughs ]
Okay! I'll see you at the bottom!
I'll see you at the bottom!
Ah, okay!
[ Exhales sharply ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Screams ]
[ Laughs ]
Oh, my God! [ Laughs ]
The water's cold. [ Laughs ]
The water was freezing, man.
You did it!
Oh!
Did I look funny? [ Chuckles ]
Oh, hilarious.
[ Laughing ] I don't want to go.
Just do it. Don't think.
[ Screams ]
Oh, my God!
[ Screams ]
[ Laughs ]
[ Screams ]
You okay?
It hurts like a mother.
It's so cold, to the point where my hands are still hurting.
I feel like someone just beat me to a bloody pulp.
Oh, my God!
Did it hurt?
Hell, yeah!
[ Cheers ]
You guys were definitely not graceful.
Oh, my God!
Graceful -- nada.
[ Laughter ]
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: Too scared to try a big slide?
Consider this --
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: 29 tons of concrete
keep that slide anchored to the ground...
[ Screams ]
NARRATOR: ...600 steel bolts hold the fiberglass in place,
and a team of experts spend six months
making their dream your worst nightmare.
[ Screams ]
Whoo!
[ Screaming ]