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Largest Aquarium
Europe's biggest fishtank wrecked
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Posted: 1756 GMT
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Posted: 12:56 PM EST (1756 GMT)
Flames and thick black smoke poured from the building.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) -- More than a million of gallons of water
flooded out of Europe's biggest fish tank Wednesday, threatening to kill most
of its inhabitants after a fire ravaged the Danish museum in which it is
housed.
"We know that some of the fish are still alive but some are dead because we can
only see a few swimming about," the museum's chief biologist Henrik Flintegaard
told Reuters.
"It's such a sad day. The worst day ever."
Fire raged through the North Sea Museum on Denmark's northwest coast through
the night, damaging the walls of the Oceanarium, a 26-foot deep elliptical tank
measuring 72 by 108 feet.
The tank holds about 1.2 million gallons of sea water and was home to around
4,000 fish, among them a specimen of the ocean sunfish, or mola mola, the
world's largest known bony fish species.
Flintegaard said water was pouring out of the tank, and aquarium staff were
unable to approach it.
Divers were expected to try to rescue the surviving fish, but until then,
oxygen was being pumped in to the half-drained tank to keep them alive.
The Oceanarium's mola mola, which weighed 132 pounds as a baby and can weigh up
to two tons when fully grown, has been one of the museum's top attractions
since a local fisherman caught it and brought it to the museum in 2000.
Flintegaard said there was some hope of saving the Tope sharks housed in the
tank but staff had not yet spotted the mola mola.
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