Waterslide Stunt Video: Real or Fake?

A YouTube video showing a man riding down what's described as the "biggest waterslide on Earth" and landing in a small pool is fast becoming an online sensation.

The video was posted on Aug. 3 and has already gotten nearly 427,000 page views as of Friday afternoon. Watch the video .

Bruno Kammerl is shown fully clad in a wetsuit and helmet. Two men are wetting the slide with buckets of water. He rides down the waterslide and then he's launched off a ramp into the air for about three seconds before he splash-lands in a small pool.

Many users have been closely reviewing the video and believe that it is likely fake. Codylittlestuff on YouTube explained that there are issues with the logistics of the stunt. "Problems? Three buckets there and no water source -- 2 buckets will not wet down that entire slide. At that speed hitting water you would still skip -- ever fall off water skis? -- he still has lots of forward momentum even though he's heading down. Even if he went in -- his forward momentum would crush him into the wall. The pool would snap from that impact even if all the above were not true. But I must say a very enjoyable and impressive fake."

Summer Glau notes that the video was likely spliced using computer animation. "It's real till he disappears from sight on 0:12 (and probably stops). The camera keeps moving, but when he reappears, the man is CG [computer graphic] (see also the fact that the trajectory is too shallow to be real). Then something is rigged to make a big splash in the pool, and a real (but different from the original) man, who has been hiding in the pool all along, stands up. Hurrah."

User n5sdm added that there are also problems with the audio. "The audio of him starting to slide is not delayed as it would be from that distance, and the splash is heard as soon as he hits the pool."

Others maintained that it is real. "How does every know this is fake?......looks pretty real to me...if u look at his other videos this guy has put a lot of preparation and calculations into this jump, so how do you know that it is a fake!" said user phlexthedex.

Kammerl's Web site, Megawoosh.com , displays several Microsoft ads, leading to speculation that it was created for viral marketing purposes. Viralblog.com states that the video was created for Microsoft's Office Project 2007.

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