Watch the SheiKra and Kumba roller coasters in action
As vice president of design & engineering at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fla., Mark Rose has a job many people only dream about. This Eagle Scout helps design the rides and attractions at the world-famous theme park and zoo and its neighboring water park, Adventure Island.
His right-hand man, mechanical engineer and Eagle Scout Jeff Hornick, says they “get to think about what would people really enjoy, what would they like, what would knock their socks off or what would be a great experience for them.”
In designing each ride or attraction, a lot of what Rose and Hornick do is solve problems, just one of the many job skills they say that they learned in Scouting.
Check out two of the Busch Gardens coasters in action in the videos below, then find out more about the job of roller-coaster engineer in the July 2012 issue of Boys’ Life magazine.
I love roller coasters but I am to short for most of them
I love rollercosters!
I WOULD BARF SOOOOO BAD AFTER BOTH OF THOSE!!! I WOULD BE SICK THE REST OF THE DAY!!!
SPLASH!SheiKra best splashdown water break!
kumba beats sheikra by a mile.
when I got out of my chair I fell down!
I went on Kumba and Sheikra and it was ace and surprisingly no one barfed!
I would NEVER go on one of those!
Rode both of those last week. SheiKra was great. Mom was scared of Kumba, but I loved it. Sister is into roller coasters now. Yay!
i bet half of them barf after this. 😛
I Went to Busch gardens but was not tall enough to go on my these. My cousin went on SheiKra and loved it. Cheetah chase is awesome though.
I’m never going on shieKra
Kumba looks so awesomer than Sheikra!
Kumba looks pretty beast.
hey i can’t watch this video!
Kumba is scarier than SheiKra.
KUMBA IS A BOSS!!!! haha
where is that?
that would make me be sick
It looks awesome when your watchin’ it
and scary when your ridin’ it.
wow that is scary
I lost my lunch on that ride.
wow…
Both of those would make me sick
These are nothing. If you want to see something go to Cedar Point.
4 words from me,butterflys in my stomach
Lol true. There is Valravn and Raptor
wow i think i would feel a little sick afterwords.
SheiKra is teh best!!!!
coooool
1 word cool
Looks awesome, I just wish I lived in Florida instead of California. The thing I like about California is Disneyland
1 word, wow
I meant on my last comment now instead of know.
I know really want to go there.
I cant see the video…; what is wrong?
same with me
You probably have a slow computer….. or u-tube isn’t working
If you are veiwing it on a tablet like me it won’t work
Kumba is too painful and SheiKra has an EPIC drop so SheiKra is my favorite 😀
it looked ok but the videos weren’t filmed inside the seats of the roller coaster so it didn’t give you the experience of the roller coaster kumba was better
looks fun but scary
WWWWWOOOOWWWW.
So Awesome!!!!!!
I think so to.
I like kumba but sheiKra is better
Because of the kind of lens used at the last part of the Sheikra vid, it reminds me of Super Mario Galaxy, in which all the planets are really tiny spheres, so the vid makes it look like the coaster spreads throughout the entire planet.
what about mario luigi and kirby(got it from your name).
Oh, I just use that name cuz I used to be really good with him on Brawl. But I haven’t played it in a while, so it’s kinda out-of-date. 🙁
So cool!!!!!
Awesome! I really want to go to Busch Gardens now to try out these.
me too!!!!!!
wow(:
this is the best roller coaster
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay
I love roller coasters and I actually want to be a roller coaster engineer when I grow up. SheiKra and Kumba were some cool coasters. SheiKra reminded me a lot like griffon.
me to
me too the biggest in the world
i love kumba!!!
yeah kumba is awesome