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Sea Serpent is a steel coaster located at Morey's Piers in Wildwood NJ. It is a boomerang built by Vekoma.
Description & History[]
Opened in 1984, the Sea Serpent was the first boomerang-style coaster built in the United States and is located on Morey's Mariner's Landing Pier.
Design[]
Sea Serpent consists of a single train with seven cars, capable of carrying 28 passengers. The ride begins when the train is pulled backwards from the station and up the first lift hill by a catchcar. After being released, the train passes through the station, enters a cobra roll, and then travels through a vertical loop. After being pulled up a second lift hill, the train is released to head backwards through each inversion once more, making the total amount of inversions per ride six.
For the 2020 season, the coaster's train, second lift hill, and brakes were replaced.
Incidents[]
In June 1998, the Sea Serpent roller coaster suffered its first ever accident, injuring 14 of the 23 riders on board, some of whom were stranded upside down. According to Will Morey, chief executive officer of the Morey Organization, the accident was thought to have been due to a wheel coming off a rear axle, causing the coaster train to jerk to a stop midway through the ride, as it was looping backwards.