1,500 dead fish, flooded roads
The giant aquarium at the Berlin Hotel exploded
Was it tired? A 16-meter-high aquarium at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin. Water and fish flood the hallway and seep into the street. Most of the fish are already dead, and there are hundreds of emergency services on site.
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A glass cylinder 16 meters high: this is what the jewel of the Dom Aquarium Hotel in Berlin looked like before the explosion.
Jenny WagnerEditor’s news
The huge cylindrical aquarium “Dom Aquaree” at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin was 16 meters high. It was “the largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world,” says the website. On Friday morning at about 5.43am it exploded, setting off a massive operation. The glass shattered into a thousand pieces – 1,500 fish and a million liters of water poured out onto the street in front of the hotel. Police said two people were injured by the broken glass. “This is a big disaster for the fish and the hotel,” said a politician who stayed at the hotel.
A video was shared on Twitter showing the scale of the devastation. There are broken pieces all over the hotel lobby, and almost nothing left of the aquarium. Water still flows out of the holes. Parts of the facade of the hotel where the aquarium is located have flown out into the street. “It’s not a small crack leaking water, but the whole water basin suddenly burst,” says a spokesperson for the fire brigade.
According to Sea Life, among the 100 different species of fish were clownfish and surgeonfish, known from the Disney movie “Finding Nemo.” Even riding a giant aquarium with a kind of “elevator” was possible and many visitors were delighted. Now it has been destroyed and there is little hope for the fish to survive.
Water flows into the street
Firefighters and police on site. The street in front of the hotel had to be closed off. “There is a lot of water on the road,” the Berlin Traffic Information Center tweeted. Such as “pictureHe writes that the cause of the explosion was “physical exhaustion.” And this despite the fact that the aquarium has only recently been updated. The AquaDom only reopened in the summer after 2.5 years of renovation (costs: more than 2.5 million Swiss francs). The silicone seals have been renewed and the pool cleaned well. Police say it was not a targeted attack.
Everything in the hotel lobby at the Raddison Blu is now destroyed. Until now, it was not clear how widespread the damage was. You can see how the chairs are distributed in the hall on the video recordings. But it must have been a great shock to the guests. The destroyed ground floor was searched for people with rescue dogs.
German police said nearly 300 hotel guests and staff had left the hotel and had to be evacuated.
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