Berlin aquarium burst

A giant aquarium exploded at a Berlin hotel early Friday, releasing 1,500 tropical fish into the lobby and flooding the downtown area of the German capital ...

One guest [added ](https://twitter.com/lararimmer/status/1603642292962729984)that she “was admiring the fish and divers just last night!” “The ones that might have been saved were frozen to death.” “WHAT’S GOING ON.” The tank, which was built in the hotel in 2003 and last modernized in 2020, featured a 10-minute elevator ride that allowed guests to admire the fish up close. The windows are destroyed. Officials added that safety experts are inspecting whether the hotel faced structural damage. All the furniture is destroyed. More than 80 types of fish lived inside the aquarium, including blue tang and clownfish popularized by the animated movie “Finding Nemo.” About 100 firefighters responded to a scene that had, police noted, “massive amounts of water” pour into the street. The cause of the aquarium explosion remains unclear and is under investigation, the fire service said. Berlin is experiencing freezing temperatures that got down to as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit overnight. Shards of glass, mangled lamps, bellhop trolleys and tables are shown littered throughout the lobby.

The world's largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium, hosted in a Berlin leisure complex, burst early on Friday. The aquarium was home to around 1,500 ...

The aquarium was last refurbished in 2020, according to the website of the DomAquaree complex. During the upgrading work, all the water was drained from the tank and the fish were moved to aquariums in the basement of the building, where there is a breeding care facility for the fish, it said. - The aquarium was home to around 1,500 exotic fish and spilled 1 million liters of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district.

BERLIN (AP) — A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and hundreds of tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of ...

It said what happened with the AquaDom was “unique and unprecedented” and that Sea Life’s exhibits were not in danger of similar damage. The aquarium, which was last modernized in 2020, is a major tourist magnet in Berlin. “This man-made tragedy shows that aquariums are not a safe place for fish and other marine life,” the group wrote. “It’s a great tragedy that for 1,500 fish there was no chance of survival,” said Almut Neumann, a city official in charge of environmental issues for Berlin’s Mitte district. They were evacuated to other tanks in the neighboring Sea Life aquarium that were unaffected. Among the 80 types of fish it housed were blue tang and clownfish, two colorful species known from the popular animated movie “Finding Nemo.”

BERLIN, Dec 17 — A giant aquarium burst in Berlin yesterday, sending a “tsunami” of water and 1500 tropical fish gushing into a hotel lobby and spewing ...

“We are trying to get information from the owners of AquaDom,” he said in a statement. “There was a slight tremor of the building and my first guess was an earthquake,” she told the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper. German lawmaker Sandra Weeser, who was staying at the hotel when the aquarium burst, said she was woken up by “a kind of shockwave”. It is located in the foyer of a Radisson Blu hotel and had a clear-walled elevator built inside to be used by visitors to the Sea Life leisure complex. “A million litres of water and all the fish inside spilled onto the ground floor” of the hotel complex housing the aquarium, a spokesman for the Berlin fire department told AFP. “It was a full-on tsunami,” said Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey, adding that it was pure luck the incident had happened in the early morning when very few people were around.

The world's largest cylindrical aquarium burst in Berlin's Radisson Blu hotel lobby on December 16, releasing 265000 gallons of water.

A giant aquarium burst in Berlin on Friday, sending a "tsunami" of water and 1500 tropical fish gushing into a hotel lobby and spewing debris onto a nearby ...

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A giant aquarium in a Berlin hotel, the AquaDom, burst early Friday. More than a thousand tropical fish flooded out and two people were injured.

[Berlin Fire Brigade](https://twitter.com/Berliner_Fw/status/1603627318479814656) and [Berlin Police](https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/1603628373154086912) said that 100 emergency responders went to the scene at the [DomAquarée complex](https://realestate.union-investment.com/en/properties/1184_berlin_dom-aquaree.html). Other emergency efforts included providing [heated buses](https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/1603653231489556480) for guests leaving the hotel and [deploying rescue dogs](https://twitter.com/Berliner_Fw/status/1603694826104524802). The tanks currently don't have electricity, officials said, which means they aren't receiving the oxygen necessary to survive. The furniture, everything has been flooded with water," Sandra Weeser, a German lawmaker who was staying in the hotel, told the Associated Press. Still, after Friday's incident, Sea Life said its Berlin aquarium would be closed "until further notice." As of Friday afternoon, efforts were underway to rescue an additional 400 to 500 smaller fish that are inside other aquariums underneath the hotel lobby. Injuries were prevented because less people were on the streets so early in the morning, she said. "It looks a bit like a war zone.” The company added that the hotel has been fully evacuated. The cause or reasons behind the burst "are not yet clear," the company added. Authorities confirmed to the Associated Press that the burst began shortly before 6 a.m. "There are still smaller aquariums that were not destroyed.

Reynolds Polymer Technology, which helped build the AquaDom in Berlin, says it is sending a team to investigate the Friday rupture of the aquarium.

It said that “we are also deeply saddened by the animals and aquatic life lost.” About 400 to 500 mostly small fish from a separate set of aquariums housed under the hotel lobby were evacuated to other tanks in a neighboring aquarium that was unaffected. Berlin's top security official, Iris Spranger, told German news agency dpa on Friday that “first indications point to material fatigue.”

A huge aquarium in Berlin burst early on Friday, Dec, 16, spilling 1 million liters of water, around 1500 exotic fish, and debris onto the road.

The aquarium was last refurbished in 2020, according to the website of the DomAquaree complex. Emergency service said that around 1,500 exotic fish and debris spilled onto a major road in Mitte district. "The whole aquarium burst and what’s left is total devastation.

A German official cited "material fatigue" as a possible cause of a 46-foot aquarium in Berlin rupturing, as a U.S. company that helped build it dispatches ...

THE entrance to the five-star hotel looked like a bomb site. Mangled Christmas decorations, twisted poles and window frames, even tiny shampoo bottles ...