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56-1355: Coordinates : 28°2′30″N 82°24′47″W / 28.04167°N 82.41306°W / 28.04167; -82.41306 (Redirected from Adventure Island Water Park ) Water park near Tampa, Florida, United States Not to be confused with Universal's Islands of Adventure . [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Adventure Island" water park – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2018 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Adventure Island [REDACTED] Location Tampa , Florida , United States Coordinates 28°2′30″N 82°24′47″W / 28.04167°N 82.41306°W / 28.04167; -82.41306 Owner United Parks & Resorts Opened June 7, 1980 ; 44 years ago ( 1980-06-07 ) Area 30 acres (12 ha) Pools 2 pools Water slides 10 water slides Children's areas 3 children's areas Website www .adventureisland .com Adventure Island
112-505: A tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!} is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this
168-460: A datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations a simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ),
224-479: A "Get Smart, Get Ready" opportunity to enlighten people on how to do just that, learn and prepare for a storm. As the wind increases, a wall chart indicates the Beaufort Wind Scale and what could be expected of the winds that are being experienced. Each wind increment is tagged with an event (i.e. you cannot hold an umbrella at a wind speed of twenty-five miles per hour). The wind is generated above
280-449: A course that includes pools, water mines, and three acres of water, which slowed the tubes to a near halt so that staffers could redirect the tubes down the remainder of the course. On September 10, 2011, a lifeguard working at the attraction was struck by lightning whilst wading in a pool and later died. In 2017, the park announced that Key West Rapids would be closing in 2019. It was replaced by Solar Vortex in 2020. Runaway Rapids: One of
336-464: A natural spring, using DNA to solve crimes, and video game design. Attendees will receive a S.T.E.A.M Certificate of Achievement after completing the courses. Catering to the large, diverse community of Tampa Bay (and Florida at large), MOSI recognizes Hispanic Scientists through an annual award. The scientists attend Meet the Scientists Days, and they speak to children about their paths to
392-476: A planetarium and a public library was completed. Further renovations were done in 1996, 2001, and 2005. MOSI was the largest science center in the southeast and the 5th largest in the U.S. On August 13, 2017, MOSI closed 85% of their building and their IMAX theater to save money. Many exhibits were removed and the remaining exhibits were relocated to the previous "Kids in Charge" section of the museum. In 2022 it
448-608: A point on Earth's surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as
504-420: A publicly viewable laboratory. These butterflies include the zebra longwing - Florida state butterfly, and the giant swallowtail and the tiger swallowtail - two of the largest North American butterflies. The pond and large white tanks in front of the garden are part of a model wastewater treatment facility designed to purify wastewater in a simulated wetland environment. Waste water is fed through pumps into
560-473: A region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using the same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because
616-479: A series of underground anaerobic and aerobic purification tanks where waste particles are broken down by bacteria. The water is then pumped into a series of above ground aerobic tanks and then into a settling tank, called the clarifier, which settles remaining solids out of the water for further processing. The clean water is then chlorinated to remove remaining bacteria and then dechlorinated to remove chemicals that will be harmful to plant and animal life. Finally,
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#1732798304849672-527: A wooden tower riding flat bottomed plastic toboggans. At the bottom of the slide, the fast-moving toboggans would carry the riders on a series of skipping bounces along the length of the splash pool before coming to rest at a beach. A mechanical conveyor carried the toboggans back to the top of the ride for the next guests. It was removed in between the 2017 and 2018 seasons to make way for a beach and sitting area. Key West Rapids: A 700-foot-long one-or-two-person water slide. Riders, seated on tubes, were sent down
728-411: Is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b
784-480: Is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and a longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it
840-522: Is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand
896-674: Is a non-profit science museum located in Tampa, Florida . MOSI's funding is provided from private donations, corporate sponsors, and support from Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa . MOSI began in 1962 when Hillsborough County first approved funding for a youth museum in Sulphur Springs . Named the Museum of Science and Natural History, it provided natural science exhibits and education programs to children and adults. The name of
952-424: Is a water park located northeast of Tampa , Florida , across the street from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay . The park features 30 acres (12 ha) of water rides, dining, and other attractions. The park opened on June 7, 1980, and is part of United Parks & Resorts . Rides [ edit ] Aruba Tuba Calypso Coaster Caribbean Corkscrew Colossal Curl Rapids Racer — ProSlide dueling racer with
1008-436: Is a 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m ) exhibition about health and wellness at each developmental life stage. The exhibit informs about developmental milestones, what it takes to stay healthy at each stage, and how to return to wellness after an illness, surgery or a disability. It features medical conditions and diseases according to prevalence during each developmental stage of life. The first phase of this permanent exhibition
1064-588: Is a Jurassic-themed exhibit about paleontology. It includes PaleoLab investigations, crawl-through challenges, dino-themed animation in Fossil Films, and an opportunity to touch actual dino poop. The Saunders Planetarium was established in 1992 and is currently the only planetarium in Tampa. Thanks to a gift by the Saunders Foundation and construction by the R.R. Simmons Construction Corporation,
1120-416: Is believed to be large reservoirs of frozen water reasonably available within the rocks, and where some highlands can experience long periods of sunlight. Moonbase is the operations center of a larger operation that also includes food production (farming) and mining facilities. Mission: Moonbase at MOSI is funded, in part, by NASA and is part of MOSI's plan to continually improve our guest experience and support
1176-519: Is different from Wikidata Articles needing additional references from August 2018 All articles needing additional references Coordinates on Wikidata Official website different in Wikidata and Misplaced Pages Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS ) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It
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#17327983048491232-456: Is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana , a location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum
1288-652: Is located in MOSI's third floor exhibit gallery. The first phase focuses on the beginning of life to adolescence life stages. The second phase is located next to the first phase. The second phase focuses on the young adult to end of life stages. Bay News 9 Project Weather Weather Quest is an exhibit within Disasterville at the Museum of Science and Industry. The permanent exhibit features a Bay News 9 news desk and meteorologist green screen. This exhibit features 10,000 sq ft (930 m ). of interactive exhibits on
1344-685: Is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Museum of Science %26 Industry (Tampa) The Museum of Science & Industry ( MOSI )
1400-409: Is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in
1456-465: Is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of the shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for
1512-750: The EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In
1568-481: The International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and the far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude
1624-526: The 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from a prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with
1680-2747: The City of Tampa to remove the attraction and the rockwork around it. and replaced by Rapids Racer . Hydra Tubes: Hydra Tubes were 2 drop pink body slides that went into Paradise Lagoon. It dropped into 10 feet of water it had to be 42 inches tall to ride Hydra Tubes. It was removed in the 2017 season and never got replaced by a new water slide. Dining [ edit ] Surfside Cafe Mango Joes' Surfside Ice Cream Colossal Snacks Bayou Beach Club Island Taco Truck Snack Attack References [ edit ] ^ Reyes, Ray (August 3, 2013). "Adventure Island sued in staffer's death" . Tampa Bay Online . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . ^ "Key West Rapids" . Adventure Island . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . ^ "Key West Rapids Review" . Total Orlando . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . ^ Bill (February 8, 2021). "Runaway Rapids to be Removed at Adventure Island Tampa" . touringcentralflorida.com . Retrieved February 11, 2021 . External links [ edit ] Official website v t e United Parks & Resorts Parks SeaWorld Current Abu Dhabi Orlando San Antonio San Diego Former Ohio Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Williamsburg Sesame Place Philadelphia San Diego Other Discovery Cove Water parks ( Adventure Island Aquatica Water Country USA ) Media Blackfish Sea Rescue SeaWorld Adventure Parks Tycoon Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures The Wildlife Docs Related Incidents at SeaWorld parks SeaWorld Orcas Shamu show Tilikum v. Sea World v t e Theme parks of Florida Theme parks Disney's Hollywood Studios Epcot Legoland Florida Magic Kingdom Universal Studios Florida Universal Islands of Adventure Universal Epic Universe (under construction) Animal theme parks Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Discovery Cove Disney's Animal Kingdom Gatorland Lion Country Safari SeaWorld Orlando ZooTampa at Lowry Park Water parks Adventure Island Aquatica Big Kahuna's Daytona Lagoon Disney's Blizzard Beach Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Legoland Water Park Rapids Water Park Shipwreck Island Universal Volcano Bay Other parks Adventure Landing Dinosaur World Fun Spot America Theme Parks Icon Park Give Kids
1736-506: The Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm a year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of
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1792-729: The European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from the one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on
1848-536: The French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with
1904-538: The National Medal for Museums for the Institute of Museums and Library Services, which is the highest national award given to museums. MOSI offers S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) programs for preschool through high school students. MOSI's camps are open when school is out of session, including summer educational camps. These camps cover various scientific topics such as snorkeling in
1960-450: The Park's newest ride Colossal Curl, a raft slide that opened in 2015. Barratuba: Built in the mid-1980s. This ride was a similar experience to Calypso Coaster (using a tube to ride on) but instead was built in-ground and followed the land's natural terrain down a hill. The ride finished with a short drop through a large cylinder before ending in a splash pool located immediately adjacent to
2016-539: The Planetarium opened its doors on October 3, 1992. In July 2009, the planetarium moved to a new location in Kids In Charge! Since then, nearly 700,000 people have seen its shows. The hurricane exhibit at MOSI allows people to experience winds that range from a harmless rain storm to a category one hurricane . This exhibit is designed to raise awareness of the intensity of a storm. The museum refers to it as
2072-563: The STEM fields. The Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award has been awarded since 2001. MOSI encouraged environmental conservation through exhibits, from water conservation to Florida-friendly gardens that were closed during the museum downsizing. Mission: Moonbase is a simulated permanent lunar base in the year 2070. The premise is that it is built near the south pole of the Moon where there
2128-1267: The World Village Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Old Town Weeki Wachee Springs Defunct parks Boardwalk and Baseball Boomers Circus World Cypress Gardens DisneyQuest Disney's River Country Green Meadows Petting Farm Holy Land Experience Miracle Strip Amusement Park Miracle Strip at Pier Park Paradise Park Pirates World Six Flags Atlantis Six Gun Territory Wet 'n Wild Orlando Wild Waters Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adventure_Island_(water_park)&oldid=1256302306 " Categories : Adventure Island (water park) Landmarks in Tampa, Florida United Parks & Resorts 1980 establishments in Florida Tourist attractions in Tampa, Florida Water parks in Florida Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description
2184-577: The center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of
2240-425: The clean water is pumped back into a fish pond and the cycle continues. Of the fish in the pond, the tilapia are the most unusual. The tilapia are the third, fourth and fifth generations of descendants of the first fish born in space. This fish, named Amigo, was born on John Glenn's last space mission, STS-95 , and was returned to earth so that its reproduction could be observed. MetLife Foundation's Amazing You!
2296-649: The default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organization include the North American Datum ,
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2352-490: The distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get the width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!}
2408-474: The full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used the same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding
2464-647: The future of STEAM. Slippery Science, contains multiple exhibits that incorporate elements of the Tampa Bay Times Forum and Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team as a backdrop. Slippery Science includes a series of interactive exhibits that teach friction, physics, the science behind reaction time and more. Wooden Wonders of the World is a temporary art installation exhibit featuring model sculptures of famous buildings hand made out of toothpicks. It will no longer be available after May 29, 2023. Dinovations Lab
2520-426: The late 1980s and shared a tower with Gulf Scream, a now-defunct water slide. Standing nearly 70 feet (21 m), or seven stories tall, the ride allowed patrons to see for miles around, including a view of the nearby MOSI museum. Gulf Scream: Built in 1980, it was the second ride to be constructed in the park. It shared its tower with (now defunct) Tampa Typhoon until 2005. It was demolished in 2014 to make way for
2576-781: The length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt
2632-461: The location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires
2688-595: The longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to)
2744-463: The melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at the Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree
2800-642: The museum was changed to the Hillsborough County Museum in 1967. In 1976, the Hillsborough County Museum's advisory committee and staff started construction on a new museum in North Tampa that was to become the Museum of Science & Industry. The museum was completed in 1980 and permanently opened to the public on January 23, 1982. In 1995 the construction of the 190,000 square foot science center with Florida's only IMAX Dome Theatre, extensive permanent and temporary exhibition galleries,
2856-445: The park's first attractions, it consisted of five body slides winding through a rockwork structure. Two of them - Little Squirt and Corkscrew Canal - were tailored towards kids, while the other three - River of no Return, Barracuda Run, and Courageous Falls - were meant for adults. The attractions did not operate during the 2020 season, and had faced limited operations in the years prior. In February 2021, demolition permits were filed with
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#17327983048492912-559: The room then brought down through vents and fans using recycled air. The maximum sustained winds top at a category one hurricane, or 74 miles per hour (119 km/h). The Bio-Works Butterfly Garden and Alternate Waste Treatment exhibit was added to the Museum of Science and Industry in 1996. The exhibit consists of a butterfly garden and a self-sustaining fish pond. The garden is home to over 30 species of butterflies and several aquatic species, most of which are native to Florida. Several thousand native Florida butterflies are raised each year in
2968-411: The splash pool of the defunct Runaway Rapids, approximately where the park's most eastern snack and concession stand is now located. Guests can still observe the remnants of this ride now disguised as flower bed decoration lining the exit path of Wahoo remix. The exact details of this ride's fate are unclear, but many Tampa natives who are old enough to remember Barratuba and the lore behind it, believe it
3024-620: The world’s first dueling saucer section. Riptide (4 individual slides) Solar Vortex Vanish Point (3 individual slides: 2 trap door slides and 1 non-trap door slide) Wahoo Remix, formerly Wahoo Run . The previous ProSlide Mammoth River with dark enclosed tunnels will now be lit with multi-color LED lights and augmented with sound. Water Moccasin (3 enclosed tube slides) Pools [ edit ] Endless Surf Fabian's Fun Port Paradise Lagoon Rambling Bayou Splash Attack Defunct rides [ edit ] Tampa Typhoon: A water slide that closed in 2005. The slide opened in
3080-521: Was announced that there were talks about building a new facility in downtown Tampa, but those plans were scrapped due to financial concerns. Instead, MOSI will focus on expanding its current location in North Tampa and adding new exhibits and programs. The Museum of Science & Industry was re-accredited in April 2008 by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). MOSI was the 2009 recipient of
3136-418: Was closed after a lawsuit was filed after a patron broke a bone while riding. As stated above the ride was built in-ground: and this created a very haphazard unpredictable experience which often created enough force to eject riders from their tubes. The slide's surface was as hard as concrete and not very forgiving. Everglides: A unique water slide that sent riders down a pair of straight fiberglass flumes from
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