Rollercoaster was flung from pier into ocean when brutal hurricane hit
A rollercoaster that was despatched plummeting into the ocean within the wrath of a superstorm turned a logo of the immense destruction served up alongside the coast.
The Star Jet trip remained principally intact when the Casino Pier beneath it crumbled into the Atlantic as Hurricane Sandy unleashed havoc in New Jersey in 2012. It wasn’t till six months later, in May 2013 that it was lastly torn down and faraway from the water, not lengthy after Prince Harry had visited the stricken space.
Dramatic photos confirmed the dimensions of the operation as tons of twisted steel have been demolished and plucked from the ocean by an enormous crane on board a tug. Some emblematic pictures of the coaster standing amid the surf have been even used to promote memorabilia to lift cash for storm victims and the households of the 233 folks killed by the Category 3 occasion that hit eight international locations from the Caribbean to Canada.
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Crews labored across the clock to take away the imposing construction over the course of some days. The trip had solely opened in 2002 and had changed the earlier trip, Jet Star.
There have been even talks of changing it with a brand new thrill trip for Casino Pier, to be provocatively named Superstorm.
“We hope that it’s perceived in a positive way, that we’re back, we know the force of Mother Nature, and that we respect that, and this is our way of celebrating it,” Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers had mentioned on the time.
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But as an alternative, Star Jet’s alternative coaster was named Hydrus when it opened in 2017. It was constructed on the seashore as an alternative of the pier to guard it from future storms.
The house owners of the pier mentioned Hydrus references the constellation of the identical title very similar to the Star Jet and Jet Star earlier than it.
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