SCARY ROLLER COASTERS | Blakely and Whitney at Busch Gardens

Whitney, Blakely, Sterling, and Braxton head to Busch Gardens in Tampa Florida to test their courage on some of the scariest roller coasters in the world. First it was Sheikra! This was the first roller coaster Blakely had ever ridden in her life…and it just happens to have a 200 ft. straight drop to start off with! Everybody survived and had a great time. Whitney located the external defibrillator just in case her dad’s heart stopped after the Sheikra experience. Then, just as we were getting into our roller coaster groove, A huge thunderstorm rolled into the park and promptly ended our day…but not our fun.
From Wikipedia: SheiKra (/ˈʃiːkrə/, shee-krə) is a steel Dive Coaster roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay amusement park in Tampa, Florida, United States. The roller coaster was proposed by Mark Rose, vice-president of design and engineering for the park, and designed by Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride was planned to be 160 feet (49 m) high, but the park's executives rejected this and the height was changed to 200 feet (61 m). SheiKra reaches a maximum speed of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and has a total track length of 3,188 feet (972 m). It first opened on May 21, 2005, and was converted to a floorless roller coaster on June 16, 2007, following the opening of its sister Dive Coaster Griffon at Busch Gardens Williamsburg that year.
SheiKra was the first Dive Coaster to be constructed in North America; its track includes a splashdown and an Immelmann loop, both a first for its kind. It broke the records for the world's longest, tallest, and fastest Dive Coaster, but lost these records when Griffon in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States and Dive Coaster at Chime-Long Paradise in Guangzhou, China opened. The name SheiKra is derived from the word "shikra", an Asian-African hawk that is known to dive vertically for its prey. In 2005, Amusement Today's annual Golden Ticket Awards voted it the fourth-best new steel roller coaster of that year in a three-way tie and the 28th-best steel roller coaster. It was voted the 38th-best steel roller coaster in 2014.
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