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USA. FLORIDA. ORLANDO. AUGUST 2018: Water parks Aquatica -  Sea World. Water slides.

Water slides, lazy rivers, splash zones and wave pools are the main attractions at this Pacific-themed waterpark. The newest slide is Riptide Race, where you can race friends down two 650ft tubes sliding from a 68ft-tower. Of its 40-odd slides and rides though, still the most thrilling of all is the free-fall experience of Ihu's Breakaway Falls, where a slide door drops you into a tube that eventually makes its way to a pool at the bottom.

The park is owned by SeaWorld, and while there are no controversial dolphin or whale shows, the twice-daily feeding exhibitions of its four black-and-white Commerson's dolphins have been pared back in response to scrutiny by animal welfare organizations.

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