SheiKra is a steel Dive Coaster roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay amusement park in Tampa, Florida, United States. It first opened on May 21, 2005, and was converted to a floorless roller coaster on June 16, 2007. In 2009, the deal to build the roller coaster expired and it took Bolliger & Mabillard four years to complete the entire project. It was voted the 38th-best steel roller coaster in 2014.
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SheiKra is a steel Dive Coaster roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay amusement park in Tampa, Florida, United States. It first opened on May 21, 2005, and was converted to a floorless roller coaster on June 16, 2007. The ride was planned to be 160 feet high, but the park’s executives rejected this and the height was changed to 200 feet. It reaches a maximum speed of 70 miles per hour and has a total track length of 3,188 feet. In 2009, the deal to build the roller coaster expired and it took Bolliger & Mabillard four years to complete the entire project. It was voted the 38th-best steel roller coaster in 2014 and the fourth-best new steel coaster of that year in a three-way tie and the 28th- best roller coaster of the year. The name is derived from the word \”shikra\”, an Asian-African hawk that is known to dive vertically for its prey. It broke the records for the world’s longest, tallest, and fastest Dive Coasters, but lost these records when Griffon in Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. and Dive Co coaster at Chimelong Paradise in Guangzhou, China opened. The track includes a splashdown and an Immelmann loop, both a first for its kind. During its first year of operation, its computer systems experienced problems when it would halt and compressors were not working as they should.
This caused riders to get stranded on the roller roller coaster and be forced to evacuate the ride. After the deal expired, Happy Valley Happy Valley in Shanghai, China, built a roller coaster that could not be reproduced for several years so that the layout of the first roller coaster could be reproduced. The roller coaster opened to the public on May 19, 2005. Two days later, a media day was held for international media outlets to promote the ride, and two days later it was open to the general public. In October 2004, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment filed a trademark for the name \”Sheikra\”. A week later, Busch gardens Tampa Bay announced SheiKRA, North America’s first Dive Coercer, as part of a deal with Bolliger and Mabard. In May 2004, further details were leaked including the height, speed and trains. A month later, Tiki masks with quotes relating to the project were placed on the construction walls, including: “I’m a bird with no feathers, a beast with no equal, a fall that never hits the ground…. What am I?”
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