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It's a shame you're sequestered in a separate room. If you were in the hearing room, you could have coughed all over Ritchie, maybe even shook hands with him...

Maybe the maintenance team are on the way to fix the rides, but are walking REALLY slowly just to ensure no park guests think that there might be a problem...

True words spoken. What I really want to know is why are so many rides down. I have a few theories. The rides are rooted. DW don’t want to spend money to fix the rides. DW don’t have any money to fix the rides. DW maintenance guy poked himself in the eye while combing his hair. Ardent is selling the park and want to keep the kms down. DW don’t know what they are doing. DW are having troubles finding new fall out guys to operate the rides. DW have closed the rides to save money. DW didn’t pay the power bill. DW are at the post office to see if I they are still wanted. DW maintenance guy put his uniform in the microwave to dry it and it caught on fire. DW maintenance staff are all at an inquest. DW are stupid. The rides are open, but nobody is riding them. DW maintenance staff are lost.

Get better, we need a theme park person there!

I was thinking that perhaps they made the age-old mistake of setting their patrol areas to the relevant rides but forgetting to select the path in the middle. Seems as plausible as anything.

DW did nothing to eliminate human error.

And then he would have blamed the ride op from Oct 2016 for him needing to excuse himself to go to the bathroom in Oct 2018...

Did you know diarrhea is hereditary? It runs in your jeans! You never really appreciate what you've got until it's gone. Toilet paper is a good example A better option would be the raft not to capsize but would I know.

If, however, the requirement to get 20 riders minimum is necessary, then making those 10 people miss out to 'fill the next cycle' is fucked if nobody else wants to ride - those 10 people just missed out on a ride because they couldn't get another 10 for a second cycle...

@Brad2912 At the conclusion of the inquest the coroner must deliver findings in which he/she establishes how they died. Coronial inquests also have two other functions. The first is the coroner’s power to make recommendations. Part of the coroner’s duty is to consider from the evidence whether any recommendations or opinions should be publicly expressed with a view to avoiding similar deaths occurring in the future. This would be around regulating ride safety through inspections/staffing/operating hours/retiring or completely refurbishing rides after a certain age, etc. The second function of the coronial inquest is for the coroner to determine whether there is a reasonable suspicion that someone has committed an offence of some sort. A coroner may suspect that someone is responsible for the person’s death, for example due to manslaughter or negligence. If the coroner reasonably suspects such involvement, the coroner has a duty to refer information gathered during an investigation (and inquest) to the relevant agency/agencies, usually the Director of Public Prosecutions. The coroner does not personally express a view about possible guilt, but simply refers the information to the proper government agency for a decision to be made by that other body. Hope this helps.

Terential is bearly even a word. Did she have big bamboobs?

I hope you got a room.

Although some of the others are also true, these three, in my opinion, are the most likely.

Because if anything goes wrong it will be the ride ops fault for not putting the right amount of people in the right seats.... so Mr Ritchie & the engineering department don’t care as long as they can tick a “it’s operational” box...

When a media outlet has no words, you're fucked.

What? Like do they learn, at all, ever? Either about best practice or perception?? I don’t know about you but if wipeout is unable to operate at capacity that means there is something wrong with it. Why is a ride with something wrong with it open at all? I certainly wouldn’t be riding it!

I don't understand this post @MickeyD what is Parkz??

Had a quick walk around, here's what I noted: work is barrelling ahead on i-Ride - there's plenty of folks on-site cracking into construction Looks like they're gearing up to start work on the Lazy River in WhiteWater World - plenty of flags on-site. How does this relate to i-Ride you might ask? There's additional temporary buildings on-site near the cinema and a lot of buzz around the reservoir - all signs point to them using the dirt they pull up for the Lazy River to help fill in the reservoir (when I say all signs I mean I easily over-heard a few hard-hats chatting about it from the Giant Drop walkway.)

This is the first person I've seen who if they haven't been sacked, should be. Lets go through a one person timeline here (as best as can be determined by the information publicly available, if there are corrections or important things I've missed please let me know and I'll fix) * Is aware of state of console, but knocks back proposal to simplify console. * Despite knowing what a cluster the console is in, decides a proper e-stop is not needed. Panel has 3 buttons which could be confused for e-stops, including one which is labeled Emergency Stop; which isn't a proper e-stop * Keeps ride open when faulty, figuring ops staff can deal with any issues that come up with poor console. * Despite knowing it's faulty, takes no active interest in the ride. *Disaster* * Blames ride ops. * Blames people who reset pump which he knew was faulty for not telling him it was slightly more faulty. Unrepentant more than a year after. I get that people need to sleep at night but this attitude of 'My crappy work was fine and it's everyone else's fault for not dealing with it' has already been proved dangerous once at Dreamworld, he needs to get out before its proved dangerous again. Looking forward to seeing what sort of oversight and corporate culture allowed this sort of man to thrive.

Yeah, and? Hundreds of zoos don't have rides and seem to do great, just as much as there's other "SeaWorlds" that have a ton more rides and seem to do great, too. There's no rule for what exactly to do here - not all hotels need to have pools to be successful just as much as not all cars need four doors to sell well. But keeping with the car analogy - if i'm going to build a 4WD, I expect it to have a 4WD engine, not something out of a Corolla that's underpowered and not what I expected or paid for. That's Sea World's problem - from the perspective of either a day ticket (where you're paying the same as Dreamworld or Movie World) or as a season pass holder wanting to get a full day's worth of fun, it doesn't stack up compared to the other parks anymore, and it's compounded by the fact that for the longest time it did. So many things have been pulled out and either not replaced or have been filled in with cheap alternatives that hyper-focusses the product to such a specific age group that it alienates others. Continuing on that thought, the mentality of "competing against your own product" is so, so fundamentally flawed that it's a big contributor to why Village are so far in the hole, in my mind. It's like saying you don't need Paradise Country because you have animals at Sea World, or you don't need AOS because there's a stunt show at Movie World, or Movie World's kids area is okay to be left half-arsed and shitty because Sea World's is a bit better so they should just go there. If your products can't stand on their own feet, they're probably shit. It's how Dreamworld have managed to stay competitive - they've got a great full day product whilst every other park is still, at best, a solid half day product. It's not a hard thing to fix either - Village just needed to maintain what they had in the first place (cough, Skyway, cough Vikings). If their products can't stand on their own two feet as diverse & quality day experiences worth revisiting then as a park owner you're going to fail on driving revenue because there's no reason for guests to come back, and that's where the money is. Funny... other theme park chains have figured this out and they seem to be do fine.

Nearly the whole day? Bloody hell, that's got to be at least three, maybe four cycles?

Double thumbs up for this statement. Ardent couldn't suck anymore at running a theme park.

Perfect new themed land for a future Dreamworld upgrade. "Construction Site Land". They literally already have most of the themeing in place!

What do you mean? Nothing communicates fun quite like "silent & agile movement."

So it’s a 20 person minimum AND maximum. So it’s 20 or bust? I’d say that’s ridiculous but on the Dreamworld-o-meter of decisions & ideas it’d probably only rate as ‘weird’.

Well, 1 is higher than 0. Dreamworld seem to have 0 maintenance team.