Dive Coaster (Chimelong Paradise)

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Dive Coaster
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Chimelong Paradise
Location Chimelong Paradise
Park section Rainbow Bay
Coordinates 22°59′59″N113°19′24″E / 22.999647°N 113.323256°E / 22.999647; 113.323256
StatusOperating
Opening dateJanuary 21, 2008 (2008-01-21)
General statistics
Type Steel  Dive Coaster
Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard
ModelFloorless Dive Coaster
Lift/launch systemChain lift hill
Height59.9 m (197 ft)
Length981 m (3,219 ft)
Speed112 km/h (70 mph)
Inversions 1
Max vertical angle90°
Height restriction140 cm (4 ft 7 in)
Dive Coaster at RCDB

Dive Coaster is a Floorless Dive roller coaster [1] operating at Chimelong Paradise in China. It is built by Swiss coaster manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard. A photo update on the park's website shows the coaster's first and second drop along with the water splash, the coaster's final brake run and a row of a train in the station with 10 seats in the row, as well as two pictures of SheiKra. [2]

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Ride Elements

Dive Coaster features a 90-degree, 197-foot vertical drop that exits into an Immelmann loop. After the Immelmann, riders will swoop down to the ground then climb a curve up to the block brake, then go over a second near vertical dive dropping into a tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel, riders make an overbanked turn into a water splash feature which exits into a bunny hill then into a helix before entering the final brake run.

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Dive Coaster, July 2011

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