kraken-roller-coaster..Sea World Orlando Florida.

Sea World Orlando Florida...home of a Great Sea Monster Roller Coaster.

Kraken is a steel floorless roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard located at SeaWorld Orlando.

When it opened in 2000, it was the first floorless roller coaster in the Southern United States.

It held the record as the longest roller coaster in the state of Florida until the completion of Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Kraken is tied with Steel Eel as the fastest roller coaster at any Sea World park.

Mythological sea monster....Sea World Orlando.

In Sea World’s vision, the kraken is a giant version of the dragon eel, a multicolored variety of moray eel.

The kraken can be seen emerging from its "lair," a rock formation near the attraction entrance. Within the rock is a small cave holding the creature's "eggs," in actuality spherical aquariums in which reside another variety of eel.

The roller coaster's layout combines both characteristics of such a creature.

It lies alongside a lagoon, referring to its aquatic habitat.

Further, the coaster dives underground three times, a nod to the caverns and crevasses that it would call home.

"Its three trains"...at Sea World Orlando Florida!!

Its three trains each feature eight cars, with each car carrying four guests sitting side-by-side, for a total of 32 passengers per train. Guests are secured using an over-the-shoulder harness with locking seat belt.

As with other floorless coasters, mechanisms under the loading station track raise temporary platforms into position to allow guests to board, and then retract them out of the way so the train may leave the station.

In order to reduce the noise made by the roller coaster train, the tubular steel rails are filled with sand.

149-foot lift hill.

At the top of the hill, the roller coaster makes a right turn and drops 144 feet to the ground below.

It enters its tallest element, a 119-foot-tall vertical loop where the on-ride camera awaits as the roller coaster returns to ground level.

It then climbs to the top of a 101-foot diving loop that sends the roller coaster back the way it came.

It climbs again to enter a zero-gravity roll then drops down to enter the two-inversion cobra roll which exits into a wide sweeping U-turn to the left that brings the roller coaster to its mid-course brake run.

As Kraken exits the brakes, it drops down to the left sharply, diving underground as it enters and then exits a smaller vertical loop.

The roller coaster climbs a gentle hill before diving underground again into another U-turn, this time to the left.

It then enters its final inversion, a flat spin before entering its brakes, returning to the station via one more U-turn to the right.

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