China: Evergrande Ocean Flower Water Park on Hainan Island Starts into Soft Opening Phase

The brand-new Ocean Flower Water Park, developed by the Evergrande Group on China’s holiday and leisure island of Hainan as part of a comprehensive large-scale project including residential properties, retail offers, a marine and a theme park (cf. EAP 1/2019), is now in soft opening.

The water park features six complexes that house a total of 15 water slides from the Canadian manufacturer ProSlide. Among them is a 359-meter-long RocketBLAST^® water coaster with eight boost sections, in which sliders sitting in four-person-rafts are accelerated by water jet propulsion. This is the first installation of this attraction type in China. Another “first” in the country is the six-person TornadoWAVE^® slide.

Ray Smegal, Chief Commercial Officer at ProSlide, commented, “Dealing with COVID guidelines, time differences, holidays and collaboration between ProSlide's Shanghai team, Ottawa team, Evergrande's engineering team and various suppliers presented some big challenges that required creative solutions. Our teams showed an unwavering level of diligence, commitment, passion and dedication to this incredible project, and our client's vision.“ (eap)