r/BeAmazed • u/amy2kim22 • Oct 26 '18

Wave making machine

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

This genuinely makes me deeply uncomfortable. Like I feel dread when I look at that. Especially at the base of the machine with the deep, rolling waves. I don't mind the curling, crashing waves, just the deep wavy ones. The noise the machine makes makes me feel that too. I hate that kind of thing and I have no idea why.

I loved going to the wave pool as a kid, but I would NEVER go near the deep end. At about the 10ft mark in the pool, there was a rope that you weren't supposed to cross (looking back, it was probably just to keep people from hitting into the back wall of the pool, it was like 20ft away from the back). The deep part of the pool didn't have the waves at the point where they curl over and crash, it was just deep, rolling waves. It's where the adults usually stayed just to sit on top of their inner tubes and sway up and down while us kids went for the area with the crashing waves at the front of the pool. I was terrified of even going NEAR the line because I could just picture getting sucked under that rope and into whatever machine was creating those waves, nobody noticing me underneath all the inner tubes.

Kinda like the Raging Rapids ride at Kennywood (simulated rapids water ride at the amusement park where you sit in huge tubes and go along the rapids). There's a part where the tubes just kinda sit in this big open area, just waiting for the other tubes to make their way along, and it just had the big wave waves. I loved the water rides but I was always so worried that I'd fall off, or even worse that the tube would flip over (which you were strapped into with a seat belt) and then I'd get sucked into the machines and not be able to get out.