page_title: Shipwreck Rapids
section_title: Main ride
hierarchical_section_title: Shipwreck Rapids / Attraction summary / Main ride
caption_attribution_description: The final lift hill for the Shipwreck Rapids ride at SeaWorld San Diego. The photo was taken by me while the ride was down for maintenance. The large red screws are used to carry water back up to the station.
context_page_description: Shipwreck Rapids is a River rapids ride currently operating at SeaWorld San Diego in San Diego, California. This attraction is located in the Shipwreck Island themed area of the park, themed to a South Pacific island where many ships and their crews have been marooned. The four stranded ships are the Implausible, RMS Royal Star, Wholly Mackerel, and Dream Boat II.
  The other main part of the area is a restaurant named the Shipwreck Reef Cafe. Every so often a ship's horn can be heard, followed by a SOS signal in Morse Code.
  The ride has guests board yellow and white circular rafts, with a max capacity of 9, via a rotating platform station.
context_section_description: After telling a ride operator how many people are in your group, you proceed to a blue circle until you are told to enter the ride vehicle. When you sit down, you buckle yourself in with a seat belt that crosses everyone in your seat. On the side opposite of the loading area is the storage space for excess rafts and the loading area for disabled people. As you disembark, the raft makes a small left turn down calm waters. The raft picks up speed as you make a u-turn and then reach the first set of rapids. After hitting two rapids, your raft drops slightly and goes under a net with cargo that constantly drips water. The raft than hits another set of rapids before turning left into flat water. As the ride gradually curves back right, water cannons are shot at the raft by non riders. These can be fired for $0.25 a shot. The raft then passes in between a sea turtle exhibit. A piano hanging on the side of a boat sometimes shoots water at riders and plays piano music. The boat with a piano is often open for guests to eat their meals from Shipwreck Reef Cafe on. Riders pass under buckets with holes in the bottom that sometimes pass over the rafts and drip water. Now rafts enter rougher waters and take a small drop between waterfalls and into more rapids. Riders then pass under the Shipwreck Reef Cafe and turn before colliding with another large ship. When on-ride cameras were operating, riders would then have had their photos taken, though the cameras have been disabled. The riders enter the end of the ride, passing under a waterfall and into an cave. In this mostly dark cave, riders hit the final rapid and then hit smooth water. After passing the propeller and glowing boilers of a ship, rafts wait in line to ride back up a chain lift. The chain lift emerges riders from a hole in the bow of a ship and into the station. On either side of the lift are large red screws which carry water up to the station. Once back, riders are instructed to unbuckle their seat belts and exit.
caption: A photo of the final lift hill while the ride was under maintenance. The large red screws on either side of the lift are used to carry water up to the station.
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