[Animals] Estalla AquaDom: el acuario cilíndrico más grande del mundo, que albergaba a 1500 peces exóticos

[-𝓣𝓐𝓚𝓘]

After the AquaDom explosion, 1 million liters of salt water flooded the Radisson, leaving more than a thousand exotic fish dead.
It happened at 5:45 a.m. local time. An explosion rocked the Radisson Blu, in the Berlin hotel zone. Right in the central courtyard of the building, a 16-meter column filled with salt water broke, leaving the 1,500 exotic fish inside homeless, badly injured or dead. Locally, it was known as the AquaDom: the largest cylindrical aquarium on the planet.

A Berlin fire brigade rushed to the site immediately. According to Reuters coverage, the cylinder spilled 1 million liters of water, which the species needed to survive. Regarding what caused the accident, neither local authorities nor hotel management have commented.

like an earthquake

The Berlin emergency services reported that the AquaDom explosion reached the main street of the Mitte district, one of the busiest in the capital. "It felt like an earthquake," said one of the guests staying at the hotel this week. Another of the clients assured that the accident left “absolute devastation, with hundreds of dead fish and a lot of debris.”

None of the 1,500 fish that inhabited the AquaDom survived, according to the report issued by Union Investment, the organization that financed the maintenance of the aquarium. Still, with the help of local brigades, efforts are being made to rescue the species that live in the smaller tanks, to transfer them to other local aquariums.

The action must be immediate, say the hotel managers, because the building was left without electricity. Only two hotel employees were injured. Due to the magnitude of the explosion, the mayor of the city, Franziska Giffey, assured that if it had not happened so early in the morning, "there would have been considerable human losses."

German police do not believe the accident was the result of a terrorist attack. The Radisson issued a statement to its elite clients, with the notification that the facilities would be closed until further notice. Once an iconic Berlin tourist spot, the site of the AquaDom is covered in a blanket of rubble. Almost like a graveyard of unique species, which did not survive the explosion.

https://www.ngenespanol.com/animales/aquadom-estalla-y-deja-a-1500-peces-muertos/