My Visit to the Georgia Aquarium
 

Last week I had the good fortune to visit the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest.

Here are some videos I took of the 6.3 million gallon main tank. Sorry but its just a camera video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuH11nO7_6A
http://s373.photobucket.com/albums/o...eg2video-1.flv
http://s373.photobucket.com/albums/o...quarium107.flv

The main tank from the top.
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/o...quarium064.jpg
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/o...quarium066.jpg

Wow I'm more interested in your two pictures. Did you get some behind-the-scenes tour? Staring across that shark-filled water to see the two dingies sorta gives me the willies!

Thanks for sharing.

The 160,000 gallon reef tank.
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/o...quarium043.jpg

Lighting the reef tank.
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The wavebox. The buckets fills and then pivot down, producing a surge.
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Yes, I took the behind the scenes tour. The dingies are used to feed the whale sharks individually. The rope lines you see strung across the tank are used to pull the dingies along and feed the whale sharks. Whales sharks either feed by "ramming" their feed horizontally or "lifting" from the bottom. Since the tank is only 30 ft deep, they want to keep training the whale sharks to "ram" feed.

Wonder how thick that glass is? maybe i could work something like that into my basment:becky:

Hahaha it's easily a foot thick or more and it's actually acrylic. I had the good fortune of being able visit back in November, loved it. You can even go diving in their tank!! If I ever have to go back I'm totally doing that.

Great pictures!!

I was told that the acrylic was 12" thick.

I so wish I had brought my prescription mask with me. I definitely would have done the main tank dive and may go back just to do that.

cool vid.. i think the most amazing thing is watching schooling fish

The main viewing window on that tank (the whale shark tank) is 2 feet thick (says their website, but I've also read 25 and 27 inches).

Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing!

And wow, i DIG the wave-box!