Dollywood -- Daredevil Falls

Dollywood theme park

Daredevil Falls

At the bottom of the drop

May 1, 2004

 

Information from Dollywood's fact sheet for Daredevil Falls:

 

• Daredevil Falls is a “super flume" thrill ride.

 

• The Ride’s Story Line: Passengers begin their adventure at the Outfitters Base Camp, boarding the outfitter boats for a wilderness river excursion. As the riders travel down the river they encounter tunnels, bats, collapsing mine shafts, and black bears before traveling up the working lift of an abandoned saw mill. As they narrowly escape the spinning saw blade, their boat is diverted to the reject log channel, only to plunge over the river falls into the logjam filled pond below.

 

• It opened in April 1998.

 

• It was manufactured by O.D.Hopkins Associates, Inc. of Contoocook, New Hampshire.

 

• Ride Length: 1,350 feet

• Steepest Change in Elevation: 64 feet

• Boats: 12 (8 passengers each)

• Maximum Speed: 50 mph

• Drop: 67 feet

• Capacity: 1,100 per hour

• Ride Time: 3 minutes; 56 seconds

 

• Maintenance inspections are completed daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually and annually to perform preventative and corrective maintenance.

 

• A daily routine inspection would include items such as:

• Belt inspection and tracking

• Water level

• Special effects and controls

• Boat structure and finish

• Conveyors and lifts

• Pumps

• Anti-rollback/chain dog

• Channel, concrete, fiberglass, and guide rails

• Switches and safety systems

• Conveyors and lifts

 

• The ride operators inspect the following prior to opening each day:

• Communication devices (i.e. telephones, radios, pagers)

• Safety equipment is in place and in a state of operational readiness

• Block test cycling to ensure safety devices are working

• Walkways, ride envelope and evacuation paths are clear

• Conveyors are working properly

• P.A. and Surveillance equipment is working properly

• Lift is working properly

• Boats for cleanliness and safe conditions in rider compartments

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