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SeaWorld's Manta flies into San Diego

10 Feb 2011 . BY Martin Nash

SeaWorld's Manta flies into San Diego

SeaWorld in San Diego, California, is to unveil its new launch coaster - called 'Manta' - in 2012.

Construction is scheduled to start shortly on a similar version of a ride which has been open at the park's sister site in Orlando since 2009.

As at the Florida park, San Diego's new attraction replicates the sensation of actually being a ray, with riders travelling aboard manta-shaped cars which take them both flying above the park and skimming the surface of the 'sea'.

Passengers will start the ride enclosed in a launch tunnel, surrounded by larger-than-life images of rays projected on a 270˚ screen.

Once into the open, the cars will take visitors flying and diving through more than a dozen twists and turns.

As part of the development, Forbidden Reef, an existing SeaWorld attraction where guests can feed and touch bat rays, will be incorporated into Manta and receive a revamp.

Manta - designed by German rides company, MACK, creator of the park's existing 'Journey to Atlantis' ride - will be located just north of Rocky Point Preserve.

Image: Manta at SeaWorld, Orlando, US

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