Pictures from inside the hotel: The walls of the aquarium are splintered.
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According to the police, the large aquarium Sea Life near the Berlin Cathedral has burst. That said a police spokesman who was on site on Friday morning. Around 5:45 a.m. there was a very loud noise. Water flowed onto Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, where the hotel with the aquarium is located. Debris was swept outside.
The fire brigade reported on Twitter in the morning: “The aquarium is damaged, water is leaking. The situation is not clear at the moment.” The fire brigade is deployed with 100 firefighters in the Hotel DomAquarée.
The Berlin traffic information center tweeted that Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse was closed. “There is a lot of water on the road. So far, the cause is still unclear.” The location is very close to Berlin’s Alexanderplatz with the television tower.
In the building complex called DomAquarée there is the large aquarium Sea Life and the so-called AquaDom with 1500 tropical fish, a well-known attraction in Berlin for many tourists.
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The aquarium was filled with a million liters of salt water. That would be 1000 cubic meters of water weighing 1000 tons.
According to the operators on the Internet, the large aquarium was the “largest, cylindrical, free-standing aquarium in the world”. It should have been comprehensively modernized by summer 2020.
The aquarium was an acrylic glass tank 16 meters high and 11.5 meters in diameter. Visitors could ride through the interior of the aquarium in an elevator.
About 1,500 fish from more than 100 different species lived in the pool. The aquarium was filled with a million liters of salt water.
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The aquarium was housed in this hotel. The place is very close to the Alexanderplatz in Berlin with the TV Tower.
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Debris lies on Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse in front of a hotel. The huge aquarium in the hotel was leaking.
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