Viral Video Shows Disney World’s Splash Mountain Boat Fill With Water After Riders Jump Out
A viral Twitter video shows a Disney World Splash Mountain log filling with water, prompting five guests to evacuate their boat.
The six-second clip shows the boat underwater, and in the background, a Disney World cast member can be heard asking them to stay on the ride.
Exactly how or why the ride became waterlogged remains unclear, and Disney has yet to offer a public explanation.
A group of Disney World guests in Orlando, Florida got more than the typical Splash Mountain thrill when they boarded the log flume on Monday. According to a video shared on Twitter by Skyelar Ingersoll, at the end of the ride, their boat began to take on water. Naturally, they were alarmed and instinctively jumped out of the cart. The six-second clip shows the boat underwater, and in the background, a Disney World cast member can be heard asking them to stay on the ride.
Before and after (my boyfriend and I were in the back seats) pic.twitter.com/IqJUsIIoZE
— Karen Ramirez (@Kai_cece98) August 3, 2020
“Towards the end the log stopped and it got stuck,” Ingersoll told OrlandoHols.com. “We waited for a while but the log started sinking and filling with water, it was then we jumped out. As soon as we stepped out the whole log was pretty much submerged underwater.”
She continued: “The cast member that came to evacuate us was very unprofessional and lectured us about staying in the boat, even though it clearly wasn’t safe for us to stay seated in a boat that was submerging. We spoke with management staff and staff at guest relations and they were very professional but the initial cast member wasn’t either helpful or professional.”
Another rider shared an image of their escaped sinking log. “We dead*ss almost drowned,” they wrote. A third rider shared pictures of the water level rise from before the cart sank and after, writing, “My boyfriend and I were in the back seats.”
The footage and pictures sparked an online debate as to exactly how dangerous the incident was, regardless of the fear it caused. “Obviously no one was gonna “drown” the water is knee deep,” one person tweeted. @_jayy09 on Twitter replied: “Before we were even able to get out, our boat was tilting up. There were so many ways things could’ve gone wrong. Thankfully it didn’t, but don’t discredit what at that moment we were feeling.” Another user responded: “It would be impossible for the boat to flip over cause of the track on both sides.”
Exactly how or why the ride became waterlogged remains unclear, and Disney has yet to offer a public explanation. Instead, a spokesperson for the park offered the following statement: “The incident happened toward the end of the ride and involved five visitors. All five visitors were able to get out of the ride vehicle safely.”
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