A Dive Coaster (previously known as Diving Machine) is a type of steel roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard where riders experience a moment a free-falling with at least one 90-degree drop. Unlike other roller coasters, after the train reaches the top of the chain lift and makes its way to the first drop, a second chain moves the train just into the first drop but not completely before letting the train go about 3 to 5 seconds later. Development of the Dive Coaster began between 1994 and 1995 with Oblivion at Alton Towers opening on March 14, 1998, making it the world's first Dive Coaster. Recently, B&M has begun to use floorless trains on this model to enhance the experience. Also, the trains for this type of coaster are relatively short. As of 2012, 7 Dive Coasters have been built.
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“If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,—thinner than the paper on which it is printed,—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
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