[downandout]

Looking at the video, it seems like the answer to the problem would have been to have a lip on both sides of the slide and have a part of the raft go under that lip at the top of the slide. Then it would have been physically impossible for the raft to ever leave the slide until it reached the bottom, regardless of any negative g-forces or the weight of the riders. They could have ditched the netting altogether, and made it a far safer, scarier ride.

The mind boggling part is that the netting system worked as designed, but the design was such that the riders of any airborne raft would be going into it head-first. That should have been obvious to anyone the moment it was even proposed as a solution to airborne rafts. They created a system where serious head/face/neck injuries were inevitable.