(rushing water)
- [Dad] Today we are at one of our favorite place.
- Maui.
- In the entire world, Maui, Hawaii,
and we're at the grand Wailea Resort.
And sometimes we see something when we're traveling
that we're like, yes,
we need to make a video on this and show it to you guys,
and we found something here that is exclusive,
that is rare.
- There's only one in the entire world.
- [Dad] Seriously a water elevator.
What even is it,
and why the heck do they have it?
- A water elevator.
- [Dad] We haven't even got on it yet,
because we thought this needs to be a video,
we're gonna show you guys what it's all about.
So right behind is is the famous water elevator,
let us know in the comments
if you've been to Grand Wailea,
'cause this thing has been here for 27 years.
This entire park is a series of slides
that goes from pool to pool to pool.
There's like seven or eight slides,
that you can go from the top all the way down to the bottom
and come back through.
There's a little door over there
that looks kind of like a submarine door or something.
We go inside, I don't know what happens,
but we are going to be propelled and elevated
to the top.
I don't know if it's quick,
if it's slow, what it looks like.
We're gonna go on it right now
for our first time
and then tell you more about how the thing works,
get a little bit of an inside look
into what's inside the water elevator.
'Cause this is unique.
(fun upbeat music)
It is so big.
- Yay.
- [Dad] What is this thing?
- This thing's like a magnet.
- [Dad] Like a giant magnet.
There's a water fall.
There's a camera up there, hi.
It's like we're in a cave right now.
Oh look at the door.
- All right, aloha, my name's Logan.
I'll be your one elevator operator today.
- Okay, it is going up.
We're going up, check it out right here.
You can see that going up.
Ah, the water's getting me.
I don't know if that's a good comparison.
The original owner of this resort,
that built this water park had a son that was disabled,
he was paralyzed.
And so he wanted a way to be able to get from the lower part
of the water park up to the upper part of the water park.
1.2 million dollars just for this water elevator,
and that's how many years again this built,
like 20 years ago?
- [Logan] It was built in 1991.
- [Dad] 1991 guys.
There's no mechanical anything with this.
This is all floating.
Look how high we are, look down there.
- Wow, we just went that high, with water.
- There's actually a wall that comes up right here.
How do you get that one up,
turn the big wheel?
- Yes, sir.
- All right, so check this out.
Logan is turning this wheel right here,
and it's closing the door,
and then now the water is going to start lowering,
and the volcano down below
is going to start exploding water,
there it goes, again, yeah.
So there's the water fall,
it just turned on.
It's draining, all the water from inside of there,
is coming out.
So, now we're gonna take you and show you
inside the pump room.
We're getting exclusive access right now
to see inside the water fountain.
- It's right through these doors.
- "Authorized personnel only."
- You're not kind of a personnel.
- Oh, it's the water.
- [Dad] There it is,
we're showing you the WWII Memorial video,
where we went down into the pipes,
underneath the monument.
This looks very similar except I have to duck a lot more.
This is flowing all of the water
through every one of the slides.
Just the water elevator alone takes 16,000 gallons of water.
- 16,000, that's ridiculous.
- [Dad] 16,000 gallons of water go up and go down
and it does that all day long.
That's a lot of work, so when one.
Say that's good.
This is a sign you don't want to see
but it can happen some times
and be nice to them if it goes out,
because they are working hard to keep this thing going.
They're pumping 25,000 gallons per minute in the pool.
- Per minute.
- I don't think we should be authorized personnel.
We should probably go before we break something, let's go.
Look at this little wall
that's holding back pretty much all of of the water,
and then it's that dry pole.
And now there's a series of slides
that go all the way down.
You can take the fast option,
which is right here, through a cave.
Let's see it, Lincoln, bye buddy.
Or you can go down this smaller one, right here,
that takes you to that pool.
That then takes you to that pool,
that then takes you to a lazy river,
and then another pool, it's crazy.
(fun upbeat music)
Now we enter the lazy river.
- No, this is where you became lazy.
- [Dad] Yeah, this is crazy lazy.
This is the slow way but the fun way to get to the bottom.
What happens at the top.
Right now he's spinning the valve,
so that the water will start flowing
into the water elevator,
hey, that's some work.
That's is a lot of spinning you got going on.
Okay, it's a lot of, close the valve.
Now it's filling up with water.
You can see the pool down here,
the lower pool with the ocean and all the trees.
We've got a giant water slide right over here.
So there you go,
there's your water elevator,
something that you never knew existed,
but is really, really cool.
So while you decide which video to watch next,
we're gonna go down they're big giant slide
that they just made.
So Lincoln, you're first, go buddy, go.
- I'm screaming all the way down, you ready?
- [Dad] Let's hear it.
(Lincoln screaming)
Yeah.
- Did you scream?
- [Dad] Yeah, I heard you screaming.
- Yeah, nice.
- Great job.