Hurricane Sandy (Super Storm Sandy) was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 hurricane season. Casino Pier is an amusement park situated on a pier, in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Casino Pier was partially destroyed on October 29, 2012, after part of the pier collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean due to the storm surge generated by Hurricane Sandy. In the aftermath of the storm, the Star Jet roller coaster was left sitting, relatively intact in the ocean.