The man who designs the world's water parks

Media playback is unsupported on your deviceIn 1980 Geoff Chutter found himself"mortgaged to the underside of the nostrils", and the owner of a brand new water park.

He was sent there on a work assignment, and he was immediately intrigued."It had some basic component that I thought was hugely fun," says Geoff.Image captionSo, inspired, he decided to quit the day job, take a leap of faith, and open Canada's second water park. Joining with a business partner, he found 18 acres of land in the city of Penticton, British Columbia, and constructed one.

At the time, the water parks industry was in its infancy, with the first modern attraction opening in Florida in 1977. So Geoff couldn't simply buy in slides, or even follow some already drawn up plans. Instead he had to design and build his park from scratch, working with an engineering firm to create everything.

Launching his new endeavour he had soothed his stress with the thought that, if the venture failed miserably, he always had accounting to fall back on.Three years after his park opened, he sold it, divesting completely from park ownership and operations, to instead focus on waterslide and pool design, engineering, manufacturing, and delivery.

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