What is a dunking tank?
When you are marketing a product you need to be sure that people know what the product is and why they need it.
A friend from Spain recently told us he had never heard of a dunk tank (or dunking booth) and that it might be an Americentric view that everyone will know what it is or why it is fun. Hmm, maybe he is right. We were thinking about a global audience but we did not consider about the probable absence of dunk tanks in countries outside the United States.
We can see that we have blog readers and SoDunked! app owners from lots of places outside of the United States. Here is a partial list: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nicaragua,Philippines, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom
Well, here begins our effort to let people know: "What Is a Dunking Tank?"
You can probably tell from the SoDunked! app or pictures of the app that a dunking tank is a very large “bucket” of water (big enough for a person to fit into) that has a seat over it and that the seat is connected to a release lever that can be triggered by a ball hitting the target.
These tanks are used at events as a fun activity, usually outdoors in the summertime at town fairs and carnivals around the United States and sometimes for fundraising. Imagine the fun of getting your older brother or your least favorite teacher to sit on the seat, throwing your balls until you hit the target, and then watching him fall and splash into the cold water below. We think it is an innocent and harmless way to let out frustration and have a great laugh together. Visit Wikipedia for a more detailed description (that can be translated into many languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation). See a real dunk tank in action in this video at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCtGLr8Z5KA.
We fantasize that we will have a dunking tank at a summer festival in our home town of Somerville and get the people who give out parking tickets to volunteer to sit in the dunking chair so everyone can let out their frustrations by dunking those folks.
Please write comments here or to our email at http://sodunked.com/contact.php if you have questions about dunk tanks.
Now that you know what it is, do you think it sounds fun? Please spread the word and keep on dunking!
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