Surely your parents when leaving home to go on an excursion to an amusement park told you: watch! be careful! We can not imagine what the parents of the young people of the New York metropolitan area who came to Action Park as an initiatory place. In the time that remained open, 6 people were injured in their facilities and hundreds were treated for injuries. Join us to know the one that was the most dangerous amusement park in the world and what was happening in it.
In the world there are many abandoned amusement parks, most were abandoned because they were not profitable or did not open. In Supercurioso we have seen the ghost cemetery with the remains of the Park of the presidents of the USA or Six Flags Jazzland: The dismal amusement park , The park that today occupies us stopped being visited due to the little security of its facilities.
Action Park, the most dangerous attractions in the world
Action Park It was located in Vernon, New Jersey and advertised as a water and fun park. It opened its doors in 1978 and after several partial closures of its facilities, it closed definitively in 1996. It had three differentiated areas, the Alpine Center, Motorworld and Waterworld with a total of 75 different attractions. Each year about 1 million people visited the park and it was one of the first modern water parks in the USA.
Many of the attractions of Action Park They were unique, but poorly designed. In addition, the personnel in charge were not sufficiently trained and in some cases were even minors. In addition, later studies have discovered other aggravations such as alcohol (beers) sold throughout the site without respecting age, which had a large Hispanic audience, but neither the signs nor the staff spoke Spanish, there was no warning that it was necessary to know how to swim in Some of the attractions and at that time there was still a lot of population that did not know how to do it and that they never adopted the security measures that were being invented for attractions like theirs. Curiously, they were only fined once and it was suspected that they had some kind of connivance with the authorities.
The Cliff Jump it was one of the favorite attractions of Action Park . At first it was not very dangerous since the jump was 5'5 m. The problem was the vigilantes who did not stop the types of jumps performed by the young audience and the pirouettes often ended in injuries. It was said that the direction painted the bottom of the white attraction so that the lifeguards could more easily see the bodies underwater. In the area of the Karts , apparently and as there was not much vigilance, it was common for the youth to take home some gadgets that served to manipulate the speed limiter. The sliding slides were not well banked and people flew to the neighboring lanes. The alpine slide allowed to catch such speeds that the vehicle jumped out of the lane ending in a small playground that was next to the attraction.
Of the 6 deaths that occurred in Action Park, 3 were in a facility called "Tidal pool" . There was no security whatsoever in it since it was considered to be a pool and not an attraction. Apparently, it was not indicated that in an area there was no standing and people who did not know how to swim sank under the fast waves that did not allow them to emerge. Another death occurred by electrocution . The fourth died of a heart attack because it was not warned that one of the attractions had a change in the temperature of the water that went from 27º to 10º. The alpine slide also caused a death when one of the employees who was testing it went out of the lane and found head on a stone.
In 1976, after closing some of its most dangerous attractions in the first place, Action Park He had to close when he could not face more demands for damages that occurred in his facilities. In addition to the 6 deaths that occurred in it, it is estimated that every day more than 100 people were treated for serious damage; among them the most frequent were ankle sprains, broken bones, bloody elbows, loss of teeth, concussions, cuts, abrasions or dislocations.
Interestingly, despite all the dangers involved in visiting the park, people of several generations kept a great memory of their visits. A video with images of the park went viral and the owners, in 2014, decided to proceed with its reopening. Of course, improving safety, both in terms of attractions and professionalism of the staff, and changing the name to "Mountain Creek Waterpark". What do you think Action Park ? Would you have visited such a dangerous place? Would you visit today even though security has been improved? Share your opinion with us! If you want to know other different amusement parks, we invite you to read the post: 5 curious theme parks . And if you want to know everything that people can leave forgotten in these fun equipment, you can find out by reading 8 funny things lost in amusement parks .