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Today we’ll show you a hand gesture that can potentially save your life. Two kids riding a raft got stuck when they were passing through a tunnel in a Kaohsiung amusement park. They frantically gestured for help, and help arrived just five minutes later when a staff member saw the gesture. It turned out the kids were using the Signal for Help gesture created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation amid a sharp rise of domestic violence during the COVID lockdowns. This incident has made more people aware of this useful hand gesture.

Two boys were riding a raft and got stuck in a tunnel. They waved frantically but no one noticed. One boy in a raincoat raised an arm and made the Signal for Help gesture when someone seemed to finally take note. When another raft suddenly came, they began yelling.

The kids were stuck in the tunnel and gestured for help, but passers-by didn’t seem to understand that they were signaling for help, keeping them there for about five minutes before a staff member took note.

Kuo Tai-lin
Operations assistant manager
Our colleague immediate put on a wetsuit and pushed the raft out manually, and the raft was finally unstuck. Our first impression is that this resulted from unbalanced weight distribution. There were water jets spraying at the kids, and they got a fright from that and rushed to one end of the raft, and so it tilted and one of the side wheels got stuck.

The park stated that the rafts are propelled by water flow. The wheel-like structures on the side are there to prevent collisions. The raft seemed to have tilted and got stuck due to unbalanced weight distribution.

As for the Signal for Help hand gesture used by the kids, it was created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation for victims of domestic violence during the COVID pandemic, so that they can signal for help via videoconferencing during lockdown without attracting the abuser’s attention.

Kuo Tai-lin
Operations assistant manager
Anytime a visitor doesn’t want to ride a raft anymore for any reason, they can raise their arms and gesture, and our staff will let them off once they’ve noticed.

Thankfully, the raft itself isn’t very dangerous to begin with, and was only stuck briefly. The kids also taught everyone a useful gesture for asking help.

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