Berlin aquarium burst

BERLIN: A giant aquarium burst in Berlin on Friday (Dec 16), sending a "tsunami" of water and 1500 tropical fish gushing into a hotel lobby and spewing ...

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Berlin police said on Twitter that the incident had caused "incredible maritime damage" with the death of the fish.

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Emergency services work on a street outside a hotel after a burst and leak of the AquaDom aquarium in central Berlin near Alexanderplatz, with water poured out ...

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.

A 46-foot-high aquarium that was home to around 1500 exotic fish burst Friday morning, injuring at least two people and sending a flood of water and debris ...

Wentzel said the cause of the incident was still being investigated. The complex also houses apartments, museums, shops, cafes and restaurants. Wentzel said glass and other debris were swept out of the hotel onto the nearby street. It is quite a drama," a hotel guest told [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/massive-aquarium-bursts-berlin-leisure-complex-emergency-services-2022-12-16/). Emergency services were forced to shut a major road next to the building because of the large volume of water flooding out. The city's fire service tweeted that 100 firefighters had been deployed to the scene.

The catastrophic rupture sent 1 million liters of salt water — and fish — pouring into the street. Berlin Police say two people were hurt, the result of ...

Its owner had touted the AquaDom aquarium at Sea Life Berlin as "the world's largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium," according to [Deutsche Welle](https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-massive-aquarium-home-to-1500-fish-bursts/a-64119337). But in the early hours of Friday morning, it burst — and all of the roughly 1,500 fish it had contained are dead, officials say. They also say there are no signs of a crime.

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.”