Sheikra at Busch Gardens Stuck- May 12th, 2016

[TTD03]

Sheikra got stuck, and 64 needed to be rescued! How many of you would pay to do this?

Post by CoasterCrazy.com.

TAMPA (FOX 13) - Dozens of passengers aboard the Sheikra roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay had to be rescued from the ride after it became stuck on the tracks high in the air Thursday afternoon.

A park spokesman told FOX 13 that 64 people were stuck on the ride for about an hour. The view from SkyFOX showed park rescue teams helping each rider out of the ride's car, which was stopped just before the top of the ride's 200-foot-high initial hill.

Steps next to the coaster were being used to walk people down from their precarious perch. There was also a cart brought up next to the coaster with chairs, apparently to bring riders down without requiring them to walk the steps.

Photo Sheikra roller coaster stuck; passengers rescued
Mercifully, a nearby storm stayed away from the park, sparing the stranded riders from having to cope with a soaking rain as they waited.

Not long after 6 p.m., all of the riders had been rescued. No injuries had been reported, park officials added.

It was not immediately clear why the ride had gotten stuck.

Credit Fox 13

It's weird how close those two trains are. Looks like the first train is e-stopped on a brake section before the holding chain and the second train e-stopped on the lift behind it.

That's a new block. The way Val is setup, a train can stop in the section right before the drop and the brake directly after the lift.

As always the FB comments are pretty funny

Who cares.

[Coasterkidmwm]

tiepilot35 wrote:

It's weird how close those two trains are. Looks like the first train is e-stopped on a brake section before the holding chain and the second train e-stopped on the lift behind it.

Ride stopped*

[Mikey]

Looks like a solid evac to me. All of the operators have fall arrest gear on, nobody seems to be panicking, the rides rescue gear is in good working order, and everyone seems to know what the plan is.

A+ Busch Gardens

[Coasterkidmwm]

It's weird seeing a broken B&M.

[mkingy]

Perhaps need a single topic so we can report every day when a coaster has an evac.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Honestly I learned something about dive coaster blocking I didn't know so I'll call that a success lol

Did you learn that they suck

mkingy wrote:

Perhaps need a single topic so we can report every day when a coaster has an evac.

done that!
roller-coaster-evacuations-topic-t36302.html

[Dirk_Ermen]

Would have been fun to get stuck up there. I would have grabbed the camera from my pocket and shot some awesome aerial photo's xD

[Coasterkidmwm]

Lift walks are really fun. I know a ton of people who are try to get cross-trained on random rides just for the lift walk.

Catwalks seen everywhere on most Jet Coasters lol!