Editor's note: Do you have great pictures and stories to tell about your latest or favorite amusement park ride? Please let us know at CNN iReport's latest travel snapshot assignment: Theme Park Thrill Rides! (Travel and Leisure) -- As you speed along the ship's top-deck raft ride, waves break at the ocean's surface 150 feet below. It's an acrophobe's nightmare -- and could be the most thrilling moment of your next cruise vacation. We've come a long way in the century since the Titanic, when that ship's heated swimming pool was a mind-boggling luxury. Now it's AquaDuck, the cruise industry's first water coaster, that's making a splash on board the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy.
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RideHouse in Beijing is made up of 12 slides
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The 66-foot-tall Wild Vortex debuted in Tennessee in June
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The $26 million Divertical in Italy is the world's tallest water ride
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