 These were changed years later for eight seat rafts to increase passenger throughput.The ride would close for safety on May the 17th, 2017 when it was announced that the Swiss company Intamin were the makers of the similar ride, Splash Canyon, involved in an incident where an eleven year-old child fell from a raft into the waters and died.On , Alton Towers announced that the ride would operate seasonally for 2018, operating only from to , but the ride operated throughout the season after a negative social media response.