it amazes me the total compensation across all the families, paramedics and witnesses was just over $5 million. in america if you trip over a pebble you can sue for $100m

100%

Yep, stereotypes exist for a reason. I just got back from 6 Flags in Texas and most of the ride staff made Walmart look like a high class hangout.

true! And think about rides at a traveling fair!! Even worse!!

@@pablosskates7067I’m American, this is true; I like our legal system

Yeah. Doesn't bear thinking about. I love horror films, but this video has shook me.

Yah , that’s some heavy dark shit right there

the victims in Final Destination died quicker.

I like the horror vibe of this comment. And this case reminds of the movie The Mangler 💯

The poor kids must be dealing with a hard life

The older and wiser you get the less you trust anything.

​@YeeLeeHaw You're right! I'd rather ride every ride at a park than be admitted to a hospital! 🤕

Or, anyone.

Especially those weekend carnivals

Same here

Or anyone named Peter🤔

@@adotintheshark4848 Wasn't she an engineer??

@@Niki-rn2ms I don't believe engineers, as a rule, moonlight for minimum wage

So the reaction to horrible deaths is to not send the company a cent of your money?? Woah, you show them!! What about when a drunk driver kills 4 people, you not going to renew your car registration or pay taxes?

I'll never go back either. Heaps of idiots were having a go at me back then saying 'it was just a tragic accident'! No it wasn't. It was GROSS negligence and complete lack of regard for public safety. I'll never go back to Dreamworld ever again.

@@koobie83 18,000 people die from medical neglect in Australia each year ... so hospitals, doctors, any healthcare is off the table for you then?? www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117772/

i from GC too. i was working at GCH as a nurse that day its so easy to remember cos the whole place like stopped everyone was sooo sad especially our friends who worked there

@@thedefinitionfowoman thank you for your service 🙏 🥰🇦🇺

Also, when something has been running relatively well for a long time, some bosses and managers forget how important training is. They just need the schedules filled.

🤔 OceanGate...Stockton Rush 😧

I've heard that before. Also heard at least one death from such.

@@suzannenichols6900 Air conditioner tradesmen refused to work in the attic of the school where I had worked because of asbestos. My foreman told them it had been tested and was not asbestos and they went back to work. I repeatedly said it was asbestos and the issue should be looked at but was ignored. I sent away a sample to be tested. It came back positive. The boss said I was undermining my foreman by taking it upon myself to have it tested. That issue was one of the main reasons listed for my sacking.

Pretty common in many different jobs but normally less lethal in an office for example. If you stick your neck out don't be surprised if your boss comes for your head.

It was pretty bad for the people that were killed too.

Scarred for life I'm sure. Very very sad.

At least they got out alive

you could say it was heart *crushing*

If you try really hard, you could imagine it.

Probably their last day of work as well

I bet that made for an awkward second day

It wasn't her first day of work. Pay attention please

@@MonTube2006 Dr. Grande said it was her first day on the job.

this is wild 😭😭😭 that's so scary

Thank God you had an attentive mother

Damn, I'm sorry! When I was a kid, I was in a water park in Finland. I rode a rapid waters-type waterslide where you're supposed to be on one of those big donuts. Well, I fell out of mine, perhaps I was so light that it flipped over more easily. I couldn't get in it anymore, so I had to slide down with my body against the strangely rough surface. It cut me up so bad. They were only surface nicks, but they were everywhere, I was bleeding. It was a painful ride down and you can believe that I started crying and ran to my mom after. I don't understand why the surface wasn't more smooth - sure, it was for the donuts, but it's not exactly inconceivable that a person would fall out. I trust water parks way less than amusement parks, which are usually very safe (can't speak for Dreamworld, obviously). Carnival rides are the worst though, most of the accidents you see and hear about (like parts falling off or a ride literally about to fall over from the momentum) are from carnival rides, especially in countries with lax regulations (and yes the US is one of those, wouldn't be surprised about Australia either). Remember, they have to take apart and reassemble the rides constantly, and they can't be tethered down fully.

The word "doctor" does not get capitalized when used as a noun, which you did both times.

​@@mikegarippo7815I am sure the poster enjoyed your grammar lesson.

Corner cutting for profits.I don't know why }people just freely trust these contraptions.

So the victims were pretty much crushed to blobs, i remember seeing another channel cover this incident but they didnt say how bad it was. So sad 😞

I'm going to read up on that term. A wide variety of catastrophic injuries could possibly fit. I wonder if the term excludes things like one's body being kept alive by machines. I feel that it must for the term to have any useful meaning.

@@hideousruinThat doesn’t begin to cover it. Think more like…no I won’t go there.

@@hideousruin there bodies couldn't even have been kept alive by machines. They were smooshed in between the chains and slats. One of the seats had the whole top of it crushed off so god help the person who was in that seat buckled in. I know this because I used to work for the insurer who handled their liability claim. The claim was very VERY sensitive and details were kept private so the staff there wouldn't also have to make trauma claims. But my manager basically told me they were smooshed.

During the official inquest the autopys were made public. Horrific. Rest in peace to these innocent people.

i met roozies older brother. he was in a state last year. still getting over it

Sorry for your loss.

I'm so sorry for your loss

I'm sorry for Your loss 💖🙏

WHEN WE WERE KIDS HE SHOVED MY BROTHER OVER AND STOLE HIS BIKE. HE GAVE IT BACK LATER BENT IN HALF

This is correct, none of them drowned.

@@tigerwarsaw99 yep and the fact they tried to make it sound less bad is even more awful 😖 thank God overseas media don't care about tourism dollars over people!!!

You're absolutely right. I also find it even more horrific that the local police deemed the park not negligent for the deaths. Seems Ardent Leisure Group made a backroom deal from the start. Glad to see that Ardent finally had to pay out (even though it is probably a drop in the bucket for them.)

Wow your media is way more evil than ours in US!

@@ThompsonTurvy this is the QLD police we are talking about. The level of incompetence and corruption is beyond belief.

good to hear at least they got a payout for their trauma

@@SueRosaliepayout doesn’t mean shit. Their lives will never be the same after that. The butterfly affect. What an awful thing to immediately say . $$ ain’t everything.

I think the point is that the money can be used to help them get the best therapy possible. Something they will probably need for many years to come if not the rest of their lives. Calm down! @@Okbroski

@@Okbroski Effect, not affect. Isn't, not ain't. Bad grammar.

Most of these tragedies happen because companies are trying to "save" money. Like the duck boat that capsized and killed 14 people. What's the point of trying to "save" money putting people's lives at risk just to have to pay them because the ride was unsafe?

Yeah - it's amazing there are not more fatalities.

Creepier than those awful swimming pools that whales were kept in at “Sea World” type parks. Nothing quite as dreamy as chain link gates submerged under 20 feet of pool water with pissed off Orca’s circling on the other side.

Me either. I will never forget, and I'm not even remotely close to Australia. I don't think I'm going on that ride now, because of it

Agreed

I don’t think that ride is there anymore.

Agree. I have never returned after this incident and even though the ride has been dismantled and the area cleared each time I drive past Dreamworld I am still haunted by the events that took place that day. 😢

How do you drive by it when it's all the way in australia.

Omg

It was part of the Dreamworld visit routine as a youngster. It was always the first ride we always went on. Back then my biggest childish fear was only falling in...

I went on that ride when we visited Dreamworld in September, 2005. It was great fun, then 🤔

2007 for me. I still live on the Gold Coast. It was huge news when it happened. Such a waste. It was amazing the kids all survived.

Wow - that is truly eerie

Just rub some beer on it Mate. No worries

I hear that. We saw one ride being spot welded @ a local carnival...it just made the wait longer.

all rides seem sketchy to me...

Had a local town fair and the rides all squeaked and were rusted as shit. My kids wanted to ride them, and while I know I would have as a kid, I was like helllllll nah!

The traveling carnivals freak me out 🎡 Thwres no way I’m getting on a Gravitron, pirates swing, ferriswheel, or any giant contraption they brought in on a truck!🛻 🎡 😂

Omg I hope you recover soon. How horrible!

Aww, Thank you. Im doing ok now...my car didn't make it out alive though. After 4 yrs I had just paid it off this past September. 😭

​@@roxannespahr2804yikes! Hope you enjoy marathoning the videos you missed, and your incident pays off😊

@@troy3456789 Thank you!!🙂

My gosh, I am so sorry that happened to you. Hope you heal up ok

I don’t feel as bad for her as for the two children, but I do feel bad for her too. Hardly anyone would have acted differently in her position but she must be wracked with guilt anyway.

​@@CedarMountainsnowPut the kids last on the sympathy list? I'd think this astoundingly gruesome scene would leave ANYONE who witnessed it with just horrible trauma and I can't assign "levels" of sympathy... The only people in this situation that I don't feel sorry for are the owners who should have been held liable personally - Like the water park accident in Kansas that the Doc described a few days ago,, these rides always have built-in dangers simply because they are meant to give people a thrill of some sort... and the design factors of the ride always include extremely powerful machinery that has to work absolutely perfectly to even maintain the absolute minimum safety requirements required to both give people a fairly safe ride and give them whatever thrill the ride is supposed to impart... BUT like the water park accident in Kansas this accident in Australia also included machinery that wasn't designed correctly and even a cursory inspection by somebody who knows the slightest bit about such thing would conclude that further safety concerns should be addressed...... This of course translates into money, and imo both sets of CEOs criminally scrimped on the inspections,, and their failure to redesign their rides to a higher standard of safety imo should be answered with criminal charges and not just a fine....

@@icturner23 Newsflash: We can feel bad for both the operator and the children at the same time.

Yea I was thinking this as well.. she was probably excited for the new job and even greeted the people getting into the rafts.. poor girl 😢

I don't know, her excuses were evasive and didn't indicate she felt any guilt at all.

Oh gawd, how horrible!! That poor girl! And what a terrible thing for you to have to witness.

😢

I 100% agree with you… I’m 47 and Dreamworld lost its magic many many years ago…

I was surprised how rust everything was. Implied slack maintenance, rust was everywhere, you didnt need to go looking it was obvious.

Profit-chasing leads to literal carnage

The only reason that's true is because there aren't as many water rides as there are roller coasters.

Yes when you account for numbers it's the other way round. I read water rides are the most dangerous.

​@@kinosgardenthey are, just by the nature of their ride vehicles (boats, rafts, etc). i'm a coaster operator at a park with water rides, including one right next to my coaster. the amount of times they've had to stop the ride to tell people to sit tf down is crazy. you can't simply stand up on something like a large coaster with locking restraints. but on a boat with a lap bar you pull down, or a seatbelt-like strap, that's a different story

​@@kinosgardenlet me also add that my bf worked at a nearby park where he was trained at a raft-type water ride. his first day of training included the operators and maintenance team draining the water from the ride in order to evacuate guests, bc the control operator saw on the cameras that some guy had fully unbuckled his seatbelt and stood up. the operator immediately hit the emergency stop, the water drained, and they yeeted the dude out of there. some people play around w their safety and the safety of others and it sucks

“Water rides” is a pretty broad brush. I’d be willing to believe water slides are safer because they don’t have nearly as many mechanical parts that can fail, but river rapids type rides are almost certainly at least as dangerous as any roller coaster.

The most horrible part is that implies theh were STILL ALIVE shortly after or before that!

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 sorry just to correct you - 'injuries incompatible with life' is a medical term used to describe a situation where the deceased was guaranteed not to survive (i.e decapitation, complete cranial destruction etc) it doesnt mean they were still alive when paramedics arrived on scene, I dont know whether knowing their bodies were so crushed it was impossible to survive makes it a better picture but I hope for their sake it was over quickly, such a horrible tragedy.

There’s no way any of those folks were conscious more than a few seconds after encountering the machinery. From shock to, brain/spine injury, chest injury, they would have lost consciousness immediately. Thank god they didn’t have cellphone cameras back then.

Not stringent enough obviously!!! Third world standards more like it.

Agree. I used to think Dreamworld was safer than going to the Ekka. 😂😂😂 those rides undergo way more safety checks. I'll never go back to Dreamworld as long as I live.

Interesting that you said “slip through the gaps”. That made my stomach churn for a moment. 🤢

@@smallbee1234 someone finally got it! You win a ham and jelly sandwich.....but ya gotta buy the ingredients and make it yourself.

Intuition. I’m so sorry that you were right. Glad you are all ok.

I’m so absolutely glad you guys are okay and sorry you went through that. how do you reconcile that instinct to know the ride was dangerous?

@@pureoxin8135she probably saw the ride deteriorate over time. Also, there were several incidents where the ride was shut down. I’m sure that was made public over the years.

Cannot tell if serious.

@@eadweard. Yes.....?? Wtf why would someone think I wasn't? Because I used the word zombies? Dude

@@skunkrat01 Well it's so absurdly melodramatic and overblown that I thought it might satirical.

@@eadweard. Well that was my experience of how things were. What was yours? I don't think being gloomy about four people crushed to death in front of kids/family/friends/park attendees/workers is melodramatic but you do you.

@@skunkrat01 Well I'm fairly confident I've already made my point convincingly. If you're equally happy with your own performance then maybe you'll join me in inviting the fair-minded reader to review our exchange and form their own conclusions.

I’d love to see this one too

I always thought these water rides were safe myself after hearing about this incident I will be extra cautious going forward it’s just sad what they went thru I feel like the 5 million was just a slap on the wrist the loss of 4 lives is worth way more than that

No, quite the opposite. I've worked over 38 different rides and attractions, and ridden hundreds, but these water rides legitimately scare me. Way too much that could go wrong, and they have a horrible track record.

@@MontagnaMagica make a video informing the public things like this happen when people don’t share important information ℹ️

​@@cbronsonda13th37I don't have those particular public speaking skills, but there's no secrets. It's just a lot of moving parts and unpredictable/difficult to control water. By and large, they are safe attractions, far safer than how you traveled to the park. But compared to other rides, they are less safe. There have been several incidents. The main issue that can happen is when boats get stuck somewhere and bump into each other. Again, this is quite a rare occurrence, but it's more likely to happen than anything I can envision happening on a roller coaster.

@@MontagnaMagicaanother component to this is rider ignorance... Most people have no idea that they’re basically on a conveyor belt that is submerged under water. That’s why they’re so confident unbuckling and standing up while the tide is moving. They have no idea the potential dangers looming in the water.

Yes and no. Larger more known theme parks that have proudly boasted a record of safely (like Disney) are some of the safest recreation parks to visit. Dreamland was acquired by another company which placed profits over safely.

Being stuck upside down must have been horrifying. But unbuckling was just plane stupid. lol.

So if I'd been shakier than I was that day and lost my footing getting out, there's a chance I could've been killed by the machinery? I only worried about if I fell in I'd get my phone wet.

​@@moomyung9231oh definitely 100%

​@@moomyung9231Your phone would've gotten wet...

Get your phone wet? Insurance? Bags of rice or silica gel? I honestly don't even think of it Minus the part where you can't charge it as long as you have the water drop icon. And old phones are ALWAYS on the charger, and internal drying can take hours.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 rice & silica don't work. When batteries were removable, I had a method that worked that involved a tub of 97% pure isopropyl alcohol.

I was still a little confused on how the ride is set up . Is the machinery under water or did they fall straight into the machines? How is there not a net or something. All 4 people fell through a small gap?

That would definitely fuck me up long term

My last visit to Dreamworld was in 2014. My seatbelt unclicked by itself on the Tower of Terror and the padded harness lifted up off my shoulders slightly. I was so terrified! I thought it was going to come off altogether but I pulled down on it and clutched on for dear life. When back at the bottom, I told the ride operator what had happened and he laughed and said “but did you die?”

It’s not murder , it’s negligence causing death

The horrible thing about this ride is that it was always considered a safe family ride for the whole family. Like you'd take your grandma on it. Little did we all know it was the most dangerous the whole time.

@@koobie83 Unfortunately any ride is dangerous. Some accidents are operator error or mechanical failure, some are rider fault (height or weight restrictions overriden, they stand up or loosen belts etc). Sometimes it's just fate & bad luck. Yes this one more tame but certainly not the most dangerous. Roller coasters have many more accidents🎡🎠🎢🎪

I have photos on this ride since I was a kid. As an adult I remember taking my 7,4&2yo kids on it 🤯

MrBallen has a LOT of scary stories that took place in Australia... in fact, those are usually the scariest to me! The Land of Oz is a great place with wonderful folks, but y'all have too many animals and even plants that want to merk ya! One of the freakiest was a hiker who was found dead, but cause of death was a mystery until a botanist suggested they look for a particular plant. Sure enough, this lethal plant was the culprit. He hiked through the stuff, not knowing that just brushing against it would be lethal. 😳 I still wish I could move there. My dad spent two years working in Australia in the mid 1960s at the Joint Defence military base, Pine Gap, near Alice Springs. He loved it, and almost accepted a permanent job there, we were going to move to Alice and I was so excited! Mom was not, so it didn't happen.😒 I still don't know what they did at Pine Gap, I guess if he told us he'd have to kill us! I asked him what he did there when I was seven yrs old, his answer was, "We are watching Russia, who is watching US!"

Say what you want about America, but if this had happened in the 'States it would be a lawyers' orgy, so many lawsuits would be filed. Both Dreamworks and Bray park would have been sued into oblivion, and rightfully so.

How ironic? A direct result of his crappy legislation affected his own son.

@@Jujubean9795 Tragic irony, but pretty typical from a state where people who rely on farm bills and subsidies predominantly support politicians that do not support that which makes agriculture financially and environmentally sustainable because of identity politics on hot-button (and not kitchen table) issues.

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay had one of these rides called Congo River Rapids for as long as I remember. After this incident, they removed it.