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It's on the outside of the slides.

Dreamworld has issued a statement after adjournment of Thunder River Rapids ride inquest. Zoomed in so people can read it.

Any assumption I've had of how DW run its operations have been crushed.

Repeat in English please.

Very crude layout of the original turntable. What the turntable evolved to. The turntable didn't go from A to Z in one step but took 20 years to turn it into a bastard. When the turntable was first stopped the timber turntable remained but it was fixed in place with only a small portion of the turntable removed. (marked in yellow) The turntable was propelled by a drive wheel which sat on top of the turntable. Similar to a wheel pushing a pirate ship ride. The wheel sat within a timber box. I can't remember if the original floating ramp to the turntable had a roof. Some time in the last 20 years the timber turntable was completely removed and the concrete pad that was under the turntable (marked blue) has been raised where required (marked red). Roofs A, B, C were all constructed at different times after the turntable was removed. The original control panel was in the centre of the turntable but was moved to B. I'm having flashes of memory the turntable was stopped around the time the Skylink Chairlift was built 1989. (only flashes) @themagicianread what I posted earlier today. That is in relation to what you are talking about.

Dam! I thought they would have changed the MW sign.

Catch up from before Mr Wilson: First witness Joe Stenning a former casual ride operator who worked on the Thunder River Rapids Ride between 1999 to 2001. Stenning on working as a deckhand at River Rapids Ride “I didn’t think it was a terribly difficult ride to operate in my position” Counsel to Stenning “where you ever told or trained about possibility of rafts flipping? Replay “No” Rafts colliding or capsizing? “Not that I recall” Stenning on duty in 2001 when 4 rafts collided at the end of the conveyor in almost identical circumstances to fatal accident. He was shown photos of the rafts piled up & flipped. Stenning statement “A raft came over the conveyor & Melinda didnt see a raft stopped at the unload bay. The momentum of the conveyor pushing the second raft into the stopped raft, causing the stopped raft to flip” Stenning “ I was thinking she (the operator Melinda)might have been in a bit of trouble. I think she realised then the gravity of what had just happened to the raft” Stenning talking about reaction of Melinda to raft pile up “it would’ve been quite frightening for a situation like this to happen. I hoped she had been pushing the stop buttons” Stenning “we were taken away to give statements. I wasnt allowed to speak to Melinda again. I didnt see her again for quite some time” Stenning shown an internal Dreamworld Report on 2001 raft pile up. It concluded the accident happened due to guest distraction & the operator panicking and responding inappropriately from lack of confidence, decision making in emerg situation. Stenning “were you ever made away of this report and the recommendations?” Reply “No” Ever asked why you think it happened? “Just distraction from the senior operator” Dreamworld Lawyer to Stenning “You never raised any concerns with the safety department about the TRR ride? Reply “I don’t believe so” Raise it Angus Hutchings (park safety boss)? “Don’t know who that is” Anybody? “No” Dreamworld lawyer to Stenning “why do you think the rafts collided? Your assumption?” Reply “someone wasnt doing their job properly and keeping spacing” Stenning has finished evidence. Other notes: The inquest has now been extended. The second session of Dreamworld Inquiry will be held in October a new third session will be held November 12 to 23 but it may roll on longer after review. Counsel Assisting Coroner has advised the court will be closed this afternoon for a period of time while the coroner and lawyers view the CCTV of the fatal accident from 2016.

There will be a third sitting of the Inquiry scheduled in November 2018. Many of the witnesses will be technical specialists.

Bigfoot Rapids has some type of rail system before the conveyor. @RabbiJodyThe raft was stopped in the unload bay.

@themeparkaddict that's easy. This was taken at our Friday poker night.

Really, what inside gossip have you got? I thought you were in the wait and see mode.

Oh my god. Now you're a chief ride inspector.

@Brad2912and I were only discussing last night this is the longest episode of Judge Judy we’ve ever seen. Silly us.😛 Said CEO who replaced IMAX theatre with a run of the mill cinema. (To be fair I don't know which CEO it was but it was an Ardent CEO)

You can't expect a CEO to sign off on major upgrades if he doesn’t understand what a theme park is and how a theme park works. All you need is look at Craig Davidson history of employment to understand that he was not employed for his theme park knowledge. Various roles. (Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation) worked his way up. Resident Manager (Ayes Rock Resort) Assistant General Manager (Hamilton Island) Resort General Manager (Hamilton Island) Executive General Manager (Voyages Hotels) Executive General Manager (Hamilton Island) Chief Operating Officer (Anthogy) Chief Executive Officer(Anthlogy) (yes this is correct General Manager Destination Development (Tourism Australia) Chief Executive Officer (Ardent Themeparks) This is the hole that Ardent has dug. Ardent don’t believe it require years of knowledge and experience to run a theme park. Ardent running of DW reminds me of a scene out of the original Jurassic Park movie. Dr. Ian Malcolm: “If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now”. Ardent purchased a product they have no knowledge on. Ardent doesn’t employ a CEO who has theme park knowledge. Ardent employ a CEO who only knows how to sell the product. Ardent don’t know what keeps the product going. This is like going to my doctor and asking him if my car needs an oil change. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Proof what skeet says is true. Brock's Garage is out of place within DW. Fun Patrol, telling you to have fun is not fun. Remove steam trains for shitty diesel trains. Put a roof on a flume ride. MDMC, MDMC, MDMC Fill the park with cheap ass spin and spews. Does Skeet need to go on? All very bad non-theme park "knowledge" decisions. All these decision has destroyed the DW product but hey Ardent don't even know what product they are selling.

The people who continue to buy tickets when they know DW are cutting corners are giving DW permission to continue.

Sometimes he gets help.😍

501st Legion already appear at some of the Supanova's around Australia. This was from last year. and this year

"After discovering their in-house engineering team did not meet the government requirements to perform the safety inspections, Dreamworld asked for and was granted an extension until September 30, 2016. Dreamworld's former health and safety manager Mark Thompson, who began in his role in March 2016, was then forced to ask for a further extension from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) on September 29 as the park's "Big Nine" rides were yet to be inspected".

Everybody needs to understand the information coming out of the inquest is only snippets of a bigger testimony. Example: Snippet: The Thunder River Rapids ride's official registration with Workplace Health & Safety Qld expired nine months before tragedy. Reaction: DW were running rides unregistered. Truth: WHS gave extension to DW due to circumstances we don’t know about. Snippet: Reaction: DW wasn't spending money on maintenance. Truth: ?

I do believe this is the case and WHS was booked in to inspect it in December.

A person with management or control of certain types of plant must apply to register it with Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. A person must not use registerable plant, and a PCBU must not direct or allow a worker to use registrable plant at a workplace unless the plant has been registered. I don't know the laws around this but somebody on here is sure to know?

Oh, my young Padawan you have ruled out Galaxy's Edge opening at Disney next year. The 501st Legion's Mr Lochowicz said the 2018 event was likely to be the final Stormtroopers Weekend at Dreamworld due to overseas licencing associated with the franchise and the 501st Garrison’s charity work. Even a charity group like 501st Legion' requires the Disney nod. 501st Legion spokesman, Adam Lochowicz, said the Dreamworld event had a reputation as the largest Stormtrooper gathering in the Southern Hemisphere, with the Legion consisting of people from across the globe. With success cometh Disney's hammer.

@Adventures With JWorld your source sucks. Nice edit by the way.😋.

@Adventures With JWorld Do you think you might have taken a photo of it.

I don't get it. Did you 2 just have your first date, get married and get a divorce in one night? @JaggedJanine @pushbutton