Xtreme Waterparks

1. Getting Wet in Brazil

Air Date: 2012-07-08

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

Air Date: 2012-07-08

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

Air Date: 2012-07-15

Some of the world's tallest and fastest waterslides are spotlighted in Brazil, Texas and Germany.

4. Getting Wet In Italy

Air Date: 2012-07-22

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

Air Date: 2012-07-29

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

Air Date: 2012-08-05

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

Air Date: 2012-08-12

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.

1. Getting Wet in Vail

Air Date: 2013-06-09

Explore some of the most extreme waterparks in the world, from Stukas, a terrifying 60-mph waterside in Italy, to the Destroyer, a monstrous 300-foot-long homemade waterside in Vail, CO.

2. Getting Wet in the Canary Islands

Air Date: 2013-06-16

The Tower of Power in the Canary Islands drops riders 250 feet into a shark tank; and in Costa Rica, a slide with a speed of about 45 mph is highlighted. Also: a chance to experience the wild rapids in North Carolina.

3. Getting Wet in the Bahamas

Air Date: 2013-06-23

Prepare to scream your face off as we plunge 7 stories into a cave in the Bahamas. Then, brace yourself for the world’s fastest (and tallest) headfirst slide in Canada and a 260-foot, free-fall slide in Texas.

5. Getting Wet In China

Air Date: 2013-07-07

Hold on as we take you to China's only water slide that shoots riders upside down. Next, a 300-foot slide drops riders into a Bahamian shark tank. Then, it's off to Wisconsin for the world's longest, fastest indoor water coaster.

6. Getting Wet In Maui

Air Date: 2013-07-14

First stop, "The Beast of the Middle East," a 9-and-a-half-story water slide in Dubai. Next, it's off to Virginia Beach for 4 monster slides with more than 1,200 feet of drops and loops. Finally, we venture to homemade island slides atop mountains in Maui.

7. Getting Wet In Abu Dhabi

Air Date: 2013-07-21

Riders in Brazil are sent speeding into a tank of piranhas; and in Utah, a 100-foot homemade slide ends in a kiddie pool.

8. Getting Wet In San Diego

Air Date: 2013-07-28

At Canada’s largest waterpark, we visit a terrifying 6-story, near-vertical slide. Next, we travel to San Diego for the only wave machine in the US that lets you surf a monster curl standing up. Finally, plunge 9 stories into a shark tank in the Canary Islands.

9. Getting Wet In Honolulu

Air Date: 2013-08-04

1. Building the World's Tallest

Air Date: 2014-06-29

This hour-long special details the design, testing, and construction of the 168 foot 7 inch tall Verrückt, the world's tallest water slide at Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

2. Getting Wet in the Jungle

Air Date: 2014-07-06

The world's tallest trap door slide at Aqualandia in Spain, a home-made slide in Minnesota that cost over $20,000, extreme water rides at Aquaventure in Dubai, and a remote slide in the jungle of Mexico.

3. Getting Wet in Summer Camp

Air Date: 2014-07-13

The 50 mile an hour loop in Switzerland that's the fastest on Earth; America's only ski ramp inspired slip and fly in Ohio; the $1.2 million dollar, 360-degree rush in Alabama and more.

4. Getting Wet in Cancun

Air Date: 2014-07-20

Check out the first trap door slide in the world that tortures six at a time in New England. Brave Poland's record-breaking eight-foot wide, 610 ft long, 41-second tube slide.

5. Getting Wet in Malaysia

Air Date: 2014-07-27

Hold tight, there's a 70-degree drop that's terrorizing the south. Wet your senses in the world's first 5D water ride experience inside a theater. And a 6-story slide blasts riders down in a heart-stopping 15 seconds.

6. World's Best II

Air Date: 2014-08-03

From a slide in Costa Rica atop a sleeping a volcano, to plunging 90-feet down a near vertical drop in Thailand, to the world's tallest and fastest waterside in Kansas - we're counting down the world's best rides.

1. Building the World's Longest

Air Date: 2015-06-21

Xtreme Waterparks is going halfway around the world for the exclusive story of the longest waterslide on Earth - stretching two thousand feet or nearly seven football fields in New Zealand.

2. Getting Wet in New Zealand

Air Date: 2015-06-28

We're going to New Zealand! Get ready to slip and slam down Mother Nature's Rere Rock. Then, plunge down the world's tallest trap-door slide in Kentucky. Next, we're off to Georgia's gravity-defying combination bowl & half-pipe.

3. Getting Wet in New Jersey

Air Date: 2015-07-05

We're at New Jersey's notorious Action Park on the world's tallest double looping slide! Piranhas await you at Brazil's infamous Natural Insano. Prepare for Argentina's twin-racing slide and Hawaii's big-air backyard slide!

4. America's Biggest Wave Pool

Air Date: 2015-07-12

Splash in USA's biggest wave pool in a town where water slides outnumber people! Get swept up in the world's very first water sphere in Turkey. Then, brace yourself for high drops and weightless verticals in Williamsburg!

5. Getting Wet in Fiji

Air Date: 2015-07-19

Hold tight, we're heading to Fiji! Ride down exotic slides deep in the island's remote rain forests, all while standing up. Next, head inside an extinct volcano for one of the tallest slides in South Africa.

6. Blowing Up the World's Longest in NJ

Air Date: 2015-07-26

1. Sliding with Sharks

Air Date: 2017-06-26

Take a voyage to experience a shark-infested slide in the Canary Islands, the first dueling Master Blasters in Phoenix, the world's longest thermal water slide in the Swiss Alps and the largest indoor water park in North America.

2. Getting Wet in Vegas

Air Date: 2017-07-03

Journey to the world-famous Brazilian legend literally named "Insane" in Fortaleza, a gigantic wave in the middle of the Nevada desert that's the world's first ride of its kind and Canada's latest homemade weapon with human ammo.

3. America's First Rattler

Air Date: 2017-07-10

Ride an urban legend slide in Poland, the tallest artificial waves in France, a serpentine slide in Vegas called The Rattler, and The Beast at a western themed park in Mallorca, Spain.

4. Tallest in America

Air Date: 2017-07-17

Surf a 180-degree wave in Brazil, check out the planet's only side-by-side dueling raft slide and ride down America's tallest twin body slide.

5. World's Largest Indoor Park

Air Date: 2017-07-24

Head to the world's largest indoor water park in Germany, the first near-vertical loop slide in the US, and a slide in France the locals call the "Crazy Jump".

6. Austria's Adult Playground

Air Date: 2017-07-31

Brace yourself for an adrenaline-filled adult playground in Austria, the tallest sheet waves in the world in southern France, and the tallest, steepest, and only triple trap door slide in America.

7. Getting Wet in Tenerife

Air Date: 2017-08-07

Travel to Waco, Texas, for the Royal Flush, Tenerife for Singha, a one-of-a-kind water coaster that's the fastest in the world, and Rio de Janeiro for the tallest body slide in the world named after Mount Kilimanjaro.

1. First Time Flyers

Air Date: 2018-06-28

Let loose at the world's first grownups-only water park in Mallorca, Spain, then head across the pond to Waco, TX, to ride BSR Cable Park's newest addition before catching some G's spinning though Beech Bend's Cyclone Saucers.

2. Texas Typhoon

Air Date: 2018-07-05

Ride through the belly of Aquaconda in Dubai before Typhoon Texas makes landfall in Katy, Texas. Then take in the views at the Citta del Mare Hotel as their toboggan to the sea drops you straight into the Mediterranean.

3. Rock Slide Ahead

Air Date: 2018-07-12

In the Netherlands, a rock band takes a break from their tour for water park fun before a group of gym rats head to Mother Nature's waterslide in Asheville, NC. Meanwhile the Kaleid-o-Slide brings a splash of color in Greece.

4. Twist and Launch

Air Date: 2018-07-19

In Italy, people tweet, post and like every video of Aqualandia's newest attraction. Back stateside, Turbo Twisters' pitch-black tubes keep riders guessing while surfing buddies check out the world's largest surf lagoon in Wales.

5. Shock and Awesome

Air Date: 2018-07-26

Speed is the name of the game on Velocity Peak in Athol, Idaho, while Blackbeard gets his revenge aboard Carowinds newest attraction. And things get down and dirty in Cork, Ireland, at the West Cork Secret mud slide.

6. Slip and Fly

Air Date: 2018-08-02

Riders take flight on Slip N Fly just off the beaches of Thailand, while thrill seekers experience manmade Class 4 rapids within Oklahoma City's limits. And a 56-foot drop slide has Norse warriors trembling in fear in Denmark.

7. Inflatable Adventures

Air Date: 2018-08-09

Friends try to catch their breath on one of Europe's tallest slides in Portugal, rafting guides check out a 25-foot inflatable iceberg in West Virginia and gym buddies defy gravity on the tallest water slide in the US.

8. Adrenaline on the Ocean

Air Date: 2018-08-16

Teachers slide into the world's biggest water sphere in Thailand while actors challenge one another to a race on a water slide atop the Carnival Sunshine. Then, friends get airborne thrills behind a speedboat in Greece.

9. Leap of Faith

Air Date: 2018-08-23

Roller derby teammates go for the gold in Utah, friends test their mettle walking with sharks in the Bahamas and a couple swings like Tarzan on a 34-foot floating adult playground in Texas.

10. Waterfalls and Free Falls

Air Date: 2018-08-30

Twins take on the planet's highest rafting challenge in New Zealand, while Ultimate Frisbee teammates in Miami reach ultimate speeds on the fastest waterslide at sea. Finally, two couples get messy on a date night in Tampa.

11. High Speed at Sea

Air Date: 2018-09-06

Brothers lose their mind on the Brain Drain in Florida, three friends uncover a hidden gem in the rainforest of Puerto Rico and cruise ship cast members check out the largest water park at sea.

12. Releasing the Kraken

Air Date: 2018-09-13

Adrenaline junkies pull some Gs in Thailand, face the Kraken in Australia and slide out the exit door of a 747 in Oregon.

13. Waterfalls and Wipeouts

Air Date: 2018-09-20

Friends raft down the world's largest man-made waterfall in New Zealand, young professionals take on The Challenge course in Thailand and newlyweds scream the whole way down a trapdoor slide with a 360-degree loop.

14. Mystic Mountain

Air Date: 2018-09-27

Friends say goodbye by going upside down on a six-story aqualoop tower in Australia. lifelong parkgoers take on a giant funnel in Brazil and three friends feel the rhythm and rhyme on a slide inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team.

15. Positively Glowing

Air Date: 2018-10-04

Friends visit the world's tallest inflatable slide in Australia, expats explore underground caves filled with glowworms in New Zealand and couples slide down a 100-foot waterfall in Brazil.

16. Prometheus

Air Date: 2018-10-11

Siblings tackle a crazy twisting ride with two head-spinning vortexes in Argentina, students bounce over inflatable water obstacles in Australia and friends tube down a hidden river deep in the jungle of Bali.

17. Smash Down in Brazil

Air Date: 2018-10-18

A husband-and-wife team take on an 85-foot trapdoor slide in Bali, a woman celebrates her birthday swimming with larger-than-life crocodiles in Australia and four friends fly down the most extreme rapids that Jamaica has to offer.

18. Slip Slidin' Away

Air Date: 2018-10-25

A teacher hits the vertical Boomerang in Indonesia, three friends surf a 100-foot waterfall in Brazil and gym buddies take on a six-story inflatable waterslide in Australia.

1. Weightless Wonders

Air Date: 2019-10-25

Longtime friends climb an eight-story raft wall in Mexico, gym buddies duke it out Down Under on an inflatable obstacle course and dancers drop like it's hot down a 70-foot slide in Arizona.

2. Empress Falls

Air Date: 2017-07-14

Zookeepers rappel down a massive 10-story waterfall in Australia, dancers flip upside-down a drop slide in Mexico and the Tampa Bay Storm cheerleading team hits a 50-foot raft wall in Florida.

3. Perfect Storm

Air Date: 2017-07-09

A water park first-timer flies through a 60-foot tornado in Australia, couples scream up and down the body of a giant snake in the jungles of Guatemala and friends flow down a slide that Mother Nature's been working on for eons.

4. Tidal Waves and Mermaids

Air Date: 2017-07-16

A couple hangs ten down twin drop slides in California, identical twins get swept away on a seven-story enclosed waterslide in Australia and newlyweds transform into mermaids in Florida.

5. Welcome to Splashtown

Air Date: 2017-07-14

Workout buddies pull themselves over the edge of one of the most terrifying freefall rides in Texas while gorgeous expats take a ride down the longest waterslide in Thailand; four friends surrender to the gods in Mexico.

6. Primal Fear

Air Date: 2017-07-16

Expats go primal at a dinosaur-themed water park in Thailand, four friends ride the beast in Indiana and international students experience the true power of a sonic shock wave in Texas.

7. Sweet Falls

Air Date: 2017-07-21

Newbie rafting guides take on class-5 rapids in West Virginia, basketball teammates brace themselves for the tallest and longest waterslides in Thailand and two sisters plummet down a 245-foot slide in Missouri.

8. Appalachian Splashin'

Air Date: 2017-07-23

Friends hydroplane down the tallest waterslide in Tennessee, riders nervously wait to free fall down a six-story trapdoor slide in Thailand and San Diego transplants muster up the courage to say "yes" to a 75-degree drop.

9. Shark-Inflated Waters

Air Date: 2017-07-28

Friends embrace the rage down the West Coast's only 100-foot-high mat racer, friendly adversaries race across an inflatable obstacle course in South Carolina and brothers plummet down a six-story trapdoor slide in Ohio.

10. Double-Dog Dare

Air Date: 2017-07-30

Models try not to scream down dueling 75-foot waterslides in Illinois, friends hit up the world's only retractable dome water park in Germany and four moms enjoy a day off on a water ride with six 300-foot-long tubes in Indiana.

11. Raging Rapids

Air Date: 2017-08-04

Couples raft down one of the best whitewater sections in the Rocky Mountains, childhood friends slide into the belly of the beast in Illinois and a couple of novices test out a 10-story trapdoor slide in North Carolina.