Students Dangle 100 Feet Off The Ground After Roller Coaster Turns Into Nightmare Ride

Students Stuck on Roller Coaster for Hours

Eight students have been rescued after being stuck on the Iron Shark roller coaster at Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas. According to the fire department, the rescue took nearly four hours. ...

Students Dangle 100 Feet Off The Ground After Roller Coaster Turns Into Nightmare Ride

A fun day at a popular Texas amusement park quickly turned into a nightmare earlier this week for eight students who got stuck on a roller coaster and dangled vertically 100 feet off the ground for almost four hours. While the students of the Houston Independent School District were on a field trip to Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier in Texas, the Iron Shark roller coaster stopped mid-ascent during its featured 100-foot climb. Firefighter…

8 Students Rescued From 100-Foot Roller Coaster Lift After Being Stuck...

Getting stuck on a roller coaster is many people’s idea of a nightmare, but even people like us, who are in Disney World nearly every day and sometimes find getting stuck on a ride fun and new, may start to freak out in this situation. ©Baynum On Thursday, May 28th, students on a field trip at Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas, found themselves stuck on the Iron Shark roller coaster…right at the top of the ride’s 100-foot inversion. According t…