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Xobi's Water Slides
Inventors of the funnel🇨🇦 CanadaFounded 1986

ProSlide Technology

Started by ski racer Rick Hunter in Ottawa. They invented the Tornado funnel, the magnet water coaster, the bowl raft ride and the Flying Saucer.Founded by Rick Hunter, a Canadian alpine racer (1969-74) who turned ski-turn geometry into flume design. Invented the funnel (Tornado, 2003), the hydromagnetic water coaster (2007), BehemothBOWL, FlyingSAUCER, TornadoWAVE, SkyBOX and the HIVE slide-tower format. Fifteen IAAPA Best Water Ride awards; rides in 40-plus countries.

ProSlide has won "best water ride" fifteen times and builds slides in more than 40 countries.

🏗️Notable installations

Mammoth, Wildebeest, Volcano Bay, Trident Tower Dubai, Atlantis Sanya, Rulantica, Chimelong 2025

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Did you know?
Rick Hunter designs his slide turns to feel like ski turns.

🛝Slides by ProSlide Technology in the encyclopedia

🇺🇸 DreamWorks Water Park

Thrillagascar & Jungle Jammer

Trapdoor slides 43 metres tall, all INSIDE a building in New Jersey.ProSlide SkyBOX trapdoor launches into 142 ft (43.
🇺🇸 Holiday World & Splashin' Safari

Mammoth

537 metres of ups and downs in a spinning six-person boat.ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC Mammoth: 1,763 ft (537 m), 69 ft tall, seven drops (largest 32 ft at 45°), six-person spinning boats, a three-minute ride and a US$9 m budget.
🇺🇸 Holiday World & Splashin' Safari

Wildebeest

Mammoth's big brother, next door.The longest water coaster from 2010 to 2012 at 1,710 ft (520 m), 64 ft tall and 24.
🇦🇪 Aquaventure World

Shockwave

449 metres of raft coaster on Dubai's Trident Tower.The first ProSlide MammothBLAST, 449 m long, opened 1 March 2021 on the Trident Tower and marketed as the world's longest family rafting water coaster.
🇺🇸 Kentucky Kingdom & Hurricane Bay

Deluge

The first water coaster pushed by magnets instead of jets.The first magnetic-launch water coaster (ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC Rocket): 57 ft tall, 890 ft long, four-person tubes.
🇺🇸 Universal Volcano Bay

Krakatau Aqua Coaster & Ko'okiri Body Plunge

A magnet coaster that dives in and out of a 60-metre volcano!Volcano Bay replaced Wet 'n Wild Orlando on 25 May 2017.
🇦🇪 Aquaventure World

Trident Tower (Odyssey of Terror & Blackout)

A 48-metre tower with 12 slides, including the tallest double funnel in the world (Odyssey of Terror).The 48 m Trident Tower opened 1 March 2021 with 12 ProSlide rides, including the world's tallest Double TornadoWAVE 60 (Odyssey of Terror) and the tallest FreeFALL in EMEA (Blackout).
🇺🇸 Holiday World & Splashin' Safari

Zinga

One of the first three funnel slides ever built, with an 18-metre-wide funnel.One of the three inaugural ProSlide Tornados, with a 60 ft funnel reached by a 270° helix.
🇦🇪 Yas Waterworld

Dawwama

The biggest six-person funnel in the world, 20 metres across, with magnets to push the raft uphill first.Dawwama is a six-person hydromagnetic ProSlide Tornado with a 20 m funnel, the largest of its kind.
🇪🇸 Siam Park

Tower of Power

A 28-metre speed slide that finishes in a glass tunnel through an aquarium full of sharks and rays.Tower of Power is a 28 m ProSlide FreeFALL that finishes in a glass tunnel through a shark and ray aquarium.
🇺🇸 Waldameer & Water World

Rocket Blast

A jet-powered water coaster that won best new water ride in 2023.An 831 ft, 67.
🇺🇸 Disney's Typhoon Lagoon & Blizzard Beach

Summit Plummet

A 36-metre speed slide disguised as a ski jump at a snowy-looking water park in sunny Florida!A steep, near-straight body slide, typically a 60-80° drop into a long flat run-out that stops the rider without a deep pool.
🇺🇸 Water World Colorado

Summit Canyon (Aspen Falls & Columbine Cascade)

Brand new in July 2026: a trapdoor slide with a 130-metre run at one of the oldest water parks in America.The largest renovation since the 1980s at one of the oldest operating parks (1979, publicly owned): a ProSlide drop capsule with a 425 ft-plus run (Aspen Falls) and the 520 ft Columbine Cascade, opened 16 July 2026.
🇲🇾 Sunway Lagoon

Vuvuzela

A giant funnel slide in Malaysia named after the loud South African trumpet.Sunway Lagoon's Vuvuzela (2013) is a ProSlide Tornado marketed as the world's largest vortex water slide when it opened.

🧭Other builders

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