Cast members who went on a ride-through to check things out got so wet they had to go change costumes. They closed the ride at about noon, tried reopening at 4 p.m., then shut down again about 20 minutes later. The Maintenance Response Team spent all day trying to figure out what went wrong. Wetsuit-clad scuba divers had to be sent out to check the bottom of the drops. The ride remained closed until 10 the next morning.
Cast members have two theories.
First, some suggest that the repairmen screwed up the ride during rehab. When the boats hit the bottom of the flume, the water would splash up, bounce off the walls, and into the boats. Some guests got a real drenching. The baffles and splash guards have always been there. It caused many headaches, hours of downtime, and lots of wet, angry guests before it was fixed.