Now the kids will just have to make do with the lobster tank at the local market.
Posted on 12/16/2022 5:01:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
A giant aquarium containing a million litres of water in the lobby of the Radisson Blu in Berlin has burst, flooding the hotel and nearby streets.
The "AquaDom" - home to 1,500 fish - is 15.85m high (52 ft) and was described as the largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world.
Two people were injured by falling glass after the blast.
Police said there had been "incredible" damage. Video showed an empty tank with water pouring into the hotel lobby.
Guests have been moved out of the hotel following the incident at 05:50 (04:50 GMT).
A spokesman for Berlin's fire brigade told the BBC the vast majority of the fish had died, while the cold weather had made rescue attempts more difficult. The tank had contained more than 100 different species.
However, fire brigade official James Klein later told local media that "several dozen" fish had been found alive in places where residual water had collected. He said they were being rehoused in other aquariums.
Also, the Associated Press quoted officials as saying they were working to rescue another 400-500 fish in smaller tanks under the hotel lobby which had been deprived of oxygen because of the disaster.
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I cannot find any video of the actual failure. Must have been spectacular.
All of those aquarium tunnel tanks make me nervous, as cool as it must be to walk “underwater”.
Would the extreme verticality of the design be part of the problem?
That thing just does not look right.
Now the kids will just have to make do with the lobster tank at the local market.
Probably they will blame Putin, albeit indirectly.
A lot of speculation on the proximate cause of this incident is being focused on government requirements to lower the ambient temperature in the lobby to a very low temperature, due to the energy sanctions, the temperature fluctuations and the relatively high temperature of the aquarium is thought to have setup some sort of stress cracking of the glass.
So yeah. Putin’s fault. Lots of lawyering up going on right now.
SPAETLE Mit der sushi ?
You’re 100% correct.
one little depth charge can do lotsa damage
-PJ
Article says people were injured by falling GLASS.
>> If you lose a war bad enough you ought to be kind of humble for awhile?
Humble? C’mon man! These are GERMANS you’re talking about!
I'm aware of that. That's why I said that glass may have come from somewhere than the aquarium itself.
So long, and thanks for all the fish,
I remember a cellar bar in Marysville CA fifty five years ago in which you could watch swimmers in the motel pool next door .
One night someone drove by the motel and threw a stick of dynamite into the pool. AS water does not compress, the blast knocked out the window into the bar flooding the patrons.
Lucky no one was in the pool, and the bomber was later caught.
Wonder if someone dropped an explosive into this pool.
They should have made it out of transparent aluminum.
Fish sticks!
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