GALVESTON, Texas — Disney’s oldest journey boat shortly will have one of a many stirring deck-top attractions during sea: A free-fall H2O slip called a AquaDunk.

The three-story-high captivate designed for a Disney Magic will start high atop a ship’s brazen flue and start with riders entering a unclouded tube to wait a near-vertical launch. When a trap doorway opens, riders will plunge scarcely 40 feet before being shot by a loop over a side of a vessel.

“You’re station on a building there, and there is this small countdown, and a building next we drops out,” says Disney engineer Joe Lanzisero, during a debate of a 15-year-old vessel to uncover off entrance changes.

The AquaDunk will be combined to a Disney Magic this tumble during a massive, five-week renovate of a boat to be announced today. Taking place between Sept. 7 and Oct. 10, a makeover will be by distant a largest ever for a Disney vessel.

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USA TODAY and several other publications got a hide look during a company’s skeleton final month underneath an agreement that we would not write about it until today.

Other changes to a ship’s deck-top areas will include:

— A new family-focused interactive H2O stadium called a AquaLab that will be home to a pool for youngsters and a family-friendly, looping H2O slip as good as incidentally spraying cocktail jets, leaky “water boilers” and other flowing features.

The area will take a place of a ship’s Mickey Pool, that famously was designed in a figure of a Mickey conduct with turn ears and was one of a facilities that came to designate a ship.

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Lanzisero, a comparison clamp boss during Walt Disney Imagineering who was in assign of a overhaul, says there wasn’t most debate during a association about stealing a iconic attraction. The Aqua Lab will outcome in some-more deck-top space where relatives and children can play together, a association goal, he notes.

“We unequivocally wanted to amp adult a H2O play, that is kind of a trend on these ships,” he says, observant that a Disney Magic has lacked a H2O slip that an whole family could enjoy.

— A new area for tots ages 3 and adult called Nephews’ Splash Zone. Themed around Donald Duck’s mischievous nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, it’ll also offer flowing play with cocktail jets and squirting total of Donald Duck’s nephews.

Lanzisero says Disney also will be adding some-more lonesome loll areas to a ship’s tip decks, quite around a adults-only Quiet Cove Pool, in response to patron direct for some-more places to lay in a shade.

A deck-top areas that will sojourn radically a same is a ship’s categorical Goofy’s Pool for families.