Tragedy for the fish: Maritime Damage
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| Giant cylindrical aquarium |
It is well known not only for its height or volume but also for other unique features which do not make it similar to any ordinary aquariums. Huge acrylic glass aquarium succeeded grabbing everyone's attention as it had a built-in elevator which enabled visitors to enter into the tank via a glass elevator that traveled up the center of the aquarium. Here they could witness both the AquaDom and the vast atrium space in a completely different way and experienced sea life discovery tour by two-story ride of elevator.
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Besides, a great news for an ichthyophile was that the hotel offered 427 suites where customers could enjoy tropical underwater world view while sleeping with the fishies.
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Guests could often notice two scuba divers working in charge of care and feeding of the tank as well as its inhabitants wearing scuba gear which adds attraction along with the fish.
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| Scuba Diver |
Visitors were also interested in visiting "AquaDom" which used to be referred as home to 1,500 tropical fish of more than 100 species along with two famous species from popular animated comedy drama, Finding Nemo: Blue Tang and Clownfish.
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| Clown Fish from Finding Nemo |
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| Blue Jelly Fish |
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| Purple Sunflower Sea Star fish |
On 16th December at 5:45 am a disaster appeared. A loud bang and burst of the massive aquarium. It was more like a Tsunami or an explosion of bomb which brought a shock wave around the tourist attraction. Unfortunately, two people had to be taken to the hospital as they were injured from falling shards of glass on them. The worst part, none of the aquatic animals could survive. Some said that if the incident had taken place just few hours later, we would have had to suffer terrible human damage because by then all the customers would have gathered in the hall of hotel including children as daily routine. Above 100 firefighters and the police arrived right after the incident but the reason of explosion is still unknown. Some estimated that severe freezing temperature (-!0 degree Celsius) caused a crack in the glass tank and then exploded.
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| Aftermath of huge aquarium explosion |
A million liters of water was unleashed into the hotel lobby after explosion causing power cut in the entire hotel. The force of water flow was too extreme that everything inside the hotel was flooded with water and eventually poured into the street causing significant debris with 264,000 gallons of water that contained more than a thousand tropical fish.
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| Fish frozen to death |
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| Flooding nearby streets |
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