About this season
Series celebrates over-the top and fabulous water slides from the world's tallest slide in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, to a high-speed gravity-defying water ride in Orlando, Florida.
Episodes (7)
1. Getting Wet in Brazil
Aired 8 July 2012 • 30 min
This series, which spotlights the world's best waterslides, opens with a look at the Insano in Fortaleza, Brazil, which stands at 135 feet tall. Also: an indoor, near-vertical looping slide in Vermont; an indoor bungee jump into water at the Center of Gravity in Edmonton.
2. Getting Wet in Phoenix
Aired 8 July 2012 • 30 min
Area 47, an outdoor playground located at the base of the Australian Alps, is visited. Also: a look at the Constrictor at Wet 'n Wild in Phoenix and the Bomb Bay at Wet 'n Wild in Orlando.
3. Getting Wet In Germany
Aired 15 July 2012 • 30 min
Some of the world's tallest and fastest waterslides are spotlighted in Brazil, Texas and Germany.
4. Getting Wet In Italy
Aired 22 July 2012 • 30 min
The world's tallest raft ride in Venice, Italy; The Master Blaster in Texas; the only slide in the world that runs through a rain forest.
5. Getting Wet In Denver
Aired 29 July 2012 • 30 min
Germany's Tropical Islands, a giant indoor water park housed in an old blimp hanger, is visited. Also: waterslides in Denver and San Antonio are spotlighted.
6. Getting Wet in Jersey
Aired 5 August 2012 • 30 min
Ride the tallest halfpipe in the world at Aquatica in Texas. Then slide, dive and swing into New Jersey's Mountain Creek Waterpark. Finally, brave the world's only double looping water slide at Wave Water World in Austria.
7. World's Best Rides
Aired 12 August 2012 • 30 min
We're trotting the globe and riding the world's most extreme water rides. From the world's tallest slide in Brazil to the world's largest indoor waterpark in Germany - we're getting wet and counting down the world's best rides.