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I worked at that hotel from 2018 to 2020 as a chef, and during that time, the aquarium was constantly under construction and leaking. The people who worked at the bar beneath the aquarium always joked about what would happen if it ever broke. Finally, it happened, and I’m very happy that no one was seriously injured.
I was thinking about that... My only plausible explanation is because the hotel rooms have windows facing inside the building, cameras might be intrusive on privacy or relevant laws
@@tvh369 They can't really, either camera would have useless angle of mostly floor or it would capture some of the rooms behind or next to the aquarium.
Well why do you wanna put a camera there? To watch the fish from the security office? I dont see a reason why cameras would be places just to supervise a big aquarium
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I mean he 100% copied that from the german newspaper, nothing about these kind of youtubers is original, its just a compiling already existing stories.
As an aquarist and somebody who cares extensively about fish, it’s kinda crazy to hear people say not to keep fish in tanks at ALL. They completely miss the issue. You can keep a fish and give it better quality of life than they’d ever see in the wild, however you need to pay very close attention to the water chemistry, feeding, stocking, and other variables to make sure they’re being kept properly. Unfortunately, many of these large companies don’t bother and just shove together whatever looks prettiest, which is where ethical problems arise. Please, if you’re going to keep any kind of pet, do your research and make sure you can provide the quality of care they deserve.
Better quality of life according to who? Did you ask the fish if they'd prefer to be rescued by humans, or if they'd rather remain in their natural habitat?
@ Objective, measurable quality of life standards such as water quality and husbandry standards. Fish are becoming increasingly captive bred and used to living in aquariums, many of them would die if you set them out into the wild.
Lesson 1. Don't build massive acrylic single piece water tanks. Lesson 2. When building something like this, design shear points/lines so you get a partial and not a complete failure. Lesson 3. Point a camera at your giant damn aquarium. You can get a decent wifi camera for like 20 bucks. Lesson 4. When nobody in Germany wants to build and certify the thing, they probably know why.
Or perhaps, no body in Germany had the technology to build an aquarium that big because it is not a typical product. Just because something isn’t made in one country doesn’t mean that country doesn’t think it’s safe. Furthermore if you watched the video, he stated the aquarium was built in 2002. That’s over 20 years ago. Honestly something that size and age most definitely was starting to have issues due to age, not quality of technology. Aquariums are quite safe when done correctly and taken care of properly. The listed reasons for the break are not technology based rather old age (glue), improper maintenance (dry spell), and accident (the hammer). I don’t understand why you say Germany has a moral high ground because they didn’t built the aquarium so they obviously know it was eventually going to fail. But that is how you are coming across. Honestly 20 years without any major issues besides the leakage shows how good the quality of the aquarium was. If you don’t believe me, watched the TV series Tanked. It’s a series that follows a real aquarium company in California that works on tanks like that of the one in the video. They go through the whole process including their fails. It is fascinating to see how aquariums are built.
@@grandmothergooseI would like to point out when the renovations were done in 2019 the original company that manufactured and installed the aquarium were not even contacted. It was local companies and they basically disassembled the entire thing and used different adhesive when putting the same acrylic panels back together. The original company every put up a statement on their website.
@StefanRial Bro are they serious?? It’s not like these chocolate would have been sold anyway, they were obviously gonna throw that stuff and him taking a few wouldn't change anything !
@StefanRial This is Germany, not backwards countries like the US. I expect that they understood and let it go. EU countries tend to know better when it comes to work-related matters.
11:05 I think the dryspell did it. It burst ALL AROUND into pieces. That's not 1 single point of failure. The material wouldn't explode all around if ONE area is damaged and IF it was the glue you'd seen leaks or the pannels would have come apart at its weakest point. A good gluing (2k) can hold tighter than the parts that are glued together. The material was made brittle and when one section failed the rest came along with it through the explosive nature and whatnot.
Well we don’t really know if I burst at one point or all at once since there was no surveillance footage and eyewitnesses couldn’t report since glass breaking is nearly instant
How they joined the acrylic panels seamlessly and without a noticeable join is super simple. They use a solvent glue it melts the surface of both pieces allowing the polymer chains to interact and create new bonds the solvent then evaporates. Because the polymer chains were allowed to form bonds and no solvent remains after where the material joint was made the joint area is indistinguishable on a molecular level. Any material that squeezes out can be sanded and polished smooth this is also a very common technique in building plastic scale models where a solvent (Acetone) is used to join the model pieces made from polystyrene.
I had envisioned the panel-joining process as being like soldering gold and silver, but with a solvent to bind the molecules rather than application of heat. Sounds like I was just about right!
Probably not healthy for fish. I think they cured it with resin, but instead of curing a solid inner lining, they just left the edges of each piece cured and under time, especially with such temp differences, would stress it enough to break.
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This happened in Japan back in 2011, it was caused by an 8.2 earthquake which destroyed a 250000 gallon aquarium at a shopping mall, damaging many of the nearby stores.
They could make a terrarium to replace it instead, just plants and no animals. If any animal were to be included, if possible, are the "cleaning crew" like isopods or springtails, or even certain beetles.
That's actually not a bad idea! Such a thing would be way cheaper in the long run, and could potentially be used as a small butterfly house, depending on moral acceptability and ongoing costs. I'm envisaging an array of tropical-ish plants including one or two tall, slender plants or vines, and then a gradient of different colours of air plants to fill the vertical space.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch I would think so too, but electricity prices were insane in germany in 2022 and are still really bad tbh now. I bet the owners thought they could save money by turning off the security cams during off hours as they had staff present nearby. typical penny wise and a pound short upper management stupidity.
What would be the point of a security camera filming aquarium? Not to mention the issue of having rooms right behind it, so you can't really film aquarium without also filming guests who don't have their curtains closed.
Good point. If anything wed just have a view of the lobby below at least, we could at least see fish flopping and the water rush past. Makes sense there wouldn't be any higher in the room@samomuransky4455
I was around the corner when the aquarium exploded. Helicopters were circling the hotel, and half the downtown area was blocked off. Until today, it's not entirely clear where most of the water drained.
I was also around the corner on that day, but a different corner. Thats why you didnt see me. I found the missing water, but it tastes awful, you guys probably wont want it back.
No company in Germany wanted to give a guarantee for such an aquarium, so the companies refused. The US company then built it. But it was clear during the renovation that the acrylic glass would have had to be checked. But they didn't.
Yeah it was BS what the guy in the video said about Germany not having the technolog. They simply knew something could happen and then they would be liable.
The quality of the animation, the construction of the aquarium, its breaking, its subsequent reconstruction from the cracked pieces, everything is top notch!
Welcome to Engwish language trying to use Latin words like "aquarium" without fumbling. It MEANS "a fish tank". Take your flashy light and walk the dark corridor to watch a moving picture about it, if you need somebody to draw a picture. That should amount you 24 000 words every second until you get the picture. John Cleese could joke about it, because he actually learned the language of this Latin script to do Life of Brian. Modern American is on a downward spiral to turn the gymnaesium into a place of gym bros chewing on slim jims.
I was there on Wednesday, December 14th, enjoying cocktails with my coworkers until late at night. We were all completely shocked when we heard the news on Friday morning. Luckily we stayed in a different hotel. We even talked about how it felt so crazy sitting next to such a big aquarium, feeling anxious it could burst. Speculating how thick the glass must be to hold such pressure. But of course we calmed ourselve with „it’s been here for 20 years, it’s not going to spontaneously break right now when we’re here“
Hammer and chisel hypothesis; Did someone put a trigger shrimp in the tank? I know my saltwater aquarium days ended suddenly when my 110 gallon tank blew out and flooded the house. I added a rather pretty shrimp in a week before
I can imagine the shrimp saying to his neighbors all that week, "you guys know I can break us out of here, right? It's easy, just whack that barrier there, then we're home free." All the other fish responding "NOOOOOOOOO!"
SpiegelTV from germany did a documentation about the building of this thing. They hired a special company from the USA, because nobody in germany could or wanted to do it. The best scene is where the foreman tells the interviewer: "Nobody in germany has the technology to do this..", and Im just sitting there imagining the typical german architect telling them the idea is lunatics and this thing will blast eventually :D
it's more like, you hired a foreign team to build the thing... are you sure your local maintenance crew knows exactly what's going on when they do their inspections? there's also this little issue with language AND measurement units... who knows if the yanks used gallons and psi and the germans got the conversion wrong? those are very annoying units to convert. there's also that "secret" glue they used to keep things seamless... how do you actually monitor or do maintenance if a huge part of the structure is "secret"?
imagine wanting to be kind and offer a new acquaintance a chocolate, a Lindt, but he goes into a full PTSD flashback episode Covered in sweat, breathing heavily, he just whispers "delicious debris..." "Sorry, Jorge, i didn't know"
Living decorations? They were fed, the tank was cleaned daily, added features and filters. These fish were way more then that. Regardless of how you see it there were people that genuinely cared for these fish. They weren't just an "attraction"
ty for mentioning they managed to save some fish, that was my first worry before i remembered there were like, people under this thing. i'm rly happy they did
Yeah I hated that no one talked about the fish and imagined there were people standing around the dying fish doing nothing to save them. I'm glad to know that there were at least some that tried to save as many fish as they could.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person whose first thought was something like this! Sure, I feel terrible for the humans caught up in this incident, but at least they would have probably had more options to escape from or try and survive the danger, and then rebuild their lives once it was over - if you’re one of the animals living in the tank, though, you probably don’t even have that? Your home just exploded with you in it, the current sucks you out and flings you and your neighbors all over, and you just kind of have to hope that some of these random air-breathing giants (who are still reeling from the blast themselves and probably rightly terrified for their own safety as well) will decide to take a second in the midst of the crisis to rescue you before you dry out and/or suffocate, and that once all that’s over you won’t be put back into a new home that will do the same thing to you again? 😢 How absolutely terrifying for all the creatures involved, human or animal!
NGL the whole animal welfare part of this all is kinda ridiculous to me. Peta never fails to make me roll my eyes... As a long-time fish owner, and someone who's very interested in tanks... Fish breeding, fish keeping, etcetc is HUGE! A lot of people are into it and these fish tend to live really good lives. What we should be against is the overcrowding of tanks - countless times have I seen competitive stingrays kept in elaborate tanks when they're solitary animals that need the ocean's current to feel safe... For tropical fish, they can lead healthy and happy lives in tanks. Even if it's a smaller tank or something - as long as they have a little over the necessary space per fish they'll be fine. Make sure they're compatible species and kept fed - they'll live good lives. You can't just shut down the entire fish breeding business just because - nor can you release these fish without raising major ecological concerns and effectively killing them since they are dependent on humans. Sure, to most people they're decorations in a tank - but if they're kept healthy what's the problem? They're conscious, yes, but it's not like these fish yearn for the ocean.. They aren't glass pacing, they aren't bored out of their minds, they look good to me.
Literally nothing PETA says should be listened to. Not because animal welfare isn't important, it quite is, however PETA is a criminal organization that uses animal welfare as a front. If you look into their organization it's so shady they might as well be a black hole. Some of the highlights include literally sponsoring domestic terrorists in the US, having a 95% killrate for their animals, operating "kill vans" that drove around snatching pets out of yards and euthanizing them before dumping their bodies in dumpsters (they were literally caught and fined for doing this) and advocating for the elimination and criminalization of life-saving medicines that are derived from animal sources like insulin. Unless you're the president of PETA that needs her insulin and declares herself exempt because "the animals need her to save them."
It's just useless PETA making a scene because that's all these "activists" are able to do. Because they're too stupid to do real work, shouting irrelevant stuff is all they do.
Its like saying we should release pugs into the wild because its inhumane to keep them as pets, even though they aren't suited to survive in the wild. 💀
Peta has never been known for their self awareness- regularly calling the kettle black. Probably what happens when the founder of your animal welfare group believes that domestication is a myth and that any animal that isn't living wild should be euthanized...
It’s so nuts. I was there a few weeks prior, on tour with my band. I’m a photographer and I made a walking pov photography video of Berlin, including this spot. I remember the day it exploded and being sent tons of messages about it. It surely was beautiful to see in person and to capture.
@MengyaPanda Quit being so dramatic. You know nothing about what I care for. All living creatures are not created equal. Tell me you never swatted a fly or a mosquito because it was annoying you. Or stepped on a spider because you were afraid it. Never mind, you'll just lie anyway in an attempt to maintain a moral high ground.
@wardocc9196 Concern trolls. Not as frequently recognized because they are usually commenting on any one with animals about how their standard of care isn't up to par.
Just a minor bugbear from a person in the Aquarium hobby you have referred to Acrylic as acrylic glass, Acrylic is not a type of glass at all. It also isn't glued together so much as the solvent used causes the panels in the zones being joined to fuse together permanently. A well made Acrylic aquarium should pretty much be timeless. What I am questioning is the bonding process they used between the panels because generally speaking when you are doing this you stand the panel up on the surface it is being bonded too, and use sewing needles or another really thin piece of metal shim to hold the panel off the other one and then inject the solvent into the joint and rapidly remove the needles. After the acrylic is allowed to cure to produce a crystal clear seam / finish you use a plumbers torch and gently move it across the seam. What I suspect is that their process to joined the panels took too long and the panels only partially cured due to the size of the panels and you had a whole structure of weak spots. That and the generally thickness of the panels leads me to have further questions. There is a formula that tells you how thick your acrylic or glass panels need to be based upon how tall your structure is. Basically for a tank that is 4' deep (1300mm for metric folks) the panel needs to be around 1.00" or 25mm thick. As your tank gets deeper this thickness goes up. and as the thickness goes up it becomes harder to get proper fusion between panels.
Acrylic is known as plexiglass, so maybe thats why he referred to acrylic as acrylic "glass". However, it does not matter. If you continued to watch a second longer, he clarified that it isn't glass..
@@pikachuispeekingatyou1795 Plexiglass is a type of acrylic, and it gets its name based on how it is manufactured. You can use Plexiglass for a lot of different applications where you would also use acrylic, however one of those applications you should not use plexiglass for instead of acrylic is in aquariums.
The suggestion that weak spots could result from a bonding process taking too long is plausible, but it's crucial to clarify that the primary concern is achieving proper fusion and curing rather than just the duration of the process. Rapid solvent evaporation is essential for a strong bond.
@@pikachuispeekingatyou1795 That's what I was getting at, having built some large aquariums, once you start getting into the really large builds where your seams are more than 8' long you are fighting the clock to get your solvent consistently through the joints and then your panels fit up. What I suspect happened is that there was a problem in the curing process, causing incomplete fusion of the joints, or possibly contamination/inclusions. And the worse thing is with the larger panels you may not see that the center of the panel is not fully fused. Ie. It fused 90% of the way from each outside edge leaving the 10% in the middle unfused in multiple spots. And we polish the acrylic after the curing process is done which helps hide those issues. Water is not a static load as well it moves and sloshes so if you don't have a fully fuse panel the water movement day in day out will start propagating cracks originating from those area's.
@@WarthunderNoob1060 No she wasn't lmfao. No tours were open and the collapse happened at 5 am. you mean to tell me that your "sister" was going to see an aquarium for a school trip and was SUPPOSED to arrive at 5 in the morning when nobody was even at the front desk? Seriously you are so full of it bro
As a fish keeper this is probably the worst case scenario I can think of for an aquarium breaking. So many rare fish dead and so much money down the drain.
People underestimate how powerful water is all of the time. The fact that enough water rushing fast enough launched a human being through a wall should be testament to that. It's a miracle it didn't happen earlier in the day, no doubt a whole crowd of people would have been crushed, drowned, or suffocated to death against bodies being pushed against them from the rushing water.
I find it both difficult to imagine and amazingly shortsighted that not a single camera was directed at the aquarium. Both for security and streaming to hotel guest rooms or the internet at large.
I have to wonder if the hotel rooms are precisely why no camera was pointed that way. Yes there is only a limited expectation of privacy when you're by a window, but I image not a lot of guests would be happy if they knew streaming or other cameras were capturing their room 24/7.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with PETA's stance on keeping fish in Aquariums. Keeping fish in an aquarium or a tank is not even remotely animal cruelty unless it is a species of fish that requires constant swimming to survive like Tuna, Manta, and a few others. Also, PETA does not understand that accidents happen. A cat getting run over by a car and the driver made an effort to avoid it, or a fish tank that ruptured due to a defect and a dozen fish died as a result, are not at all acts of cruelty. PETA and a handful of other animal rights organizations are full of BS. However, I abhor the act of animal cruelty.
PETA doesn't actually care about animals you know they put down more cats and dogs than kill shelters do? And have on record killed family pets after having them for less than a few hours? Aquariums aren't bad they are actually really really good, they can help us understand animal behavior and apply it to conservation efforts they can also help the public learn about the natural world Not all aquariums are great but the majority of them focus on conservation and rescue
PETA has been known to steal people's pets and has made repeated stances on trying to eradicate dogs and cats completely, and want to erase them as pets. I'm pretty sure any stance from PETA really shouldn't be agreeable.
PETA is horrible. They are actually opposed to keeping any animals in captivity. They should have their charitable status revoked. If they were truly an animal rights organization they would support the right to live. They don't. They vehemently oppose animal shelter reform that aims to improve animal welfare and any policies geared towards the rights of domestic animals to be allowed to live rather than be killed for arbitrary reasons. Animals they don't kill themselves frequently get transferred to places that kill for space. They comment on things to benefit from news coverage and try to take credit when anti cruelty laws get passed. Animal rights lawyer Nathan Winograd has documented a lot of their egregious behavior and policies.
Using PETA and their questionable actions as a scapegoat for why animal rights don't matter is tiring. It is animal cruelty because you're enslaving animals and essentially putting them on display for entertainment, simple as that. It does not matter if their life is any better or worse compared to their natural existence really, you wouldn't support a human being in a cage at a zoo even if they were treated well, so why fish?
@presentfactory Depends, did the human choose to be in the zoo? I know a few people who would happily jump at the opportunity to be paid and pampered to just lay around their room all day.
I had been on that aquarium elevator one or two weeks before it exploded, was shocked to see it in the news. I had a friend who lived near Mitte (the neighborhood where the aquarium was), and he told me that the streets surrounding it were closed down due to the flooding and dead fish.
I can tell you what caused the failure: *not enough REDUNDANCY.* Sounds like each part of the tank relied on another part for its strength, meaning the compromise of any single part endangers the structural integrity of the entire thing.
Dude had a rough night, let him have the chocolate. Besides those chocolates will likely not be sold again, since sea water could have contaminated some of them.
@@Blex_040Yeah lol, if this was a work of fiction the chocolate he took as a souvenir would have the last evidence to the sabotage after all the rest of the candies were thrown out
I remember riding in the elevator as a child in this big aquarium. and I think by my self "If the aquarium breaks, the fish have no chance and the hotel (it's on the first floor, the elevator surrounds it) will swim away " round 10 years later I saw it in the news. I was shocked! 😢
Good for him. As soon as he said the guy landed in the Lindt shop and was ok. The first thing that went through my mind was I hope at least he got some chocolate. I've stayed at the Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin. It was over a decade ago now and was for a stag party. I have fond memories of it. The one thing that stood out for me besides the impressive aquarium was how friendly and welcoming the staff were. I'm glad no one was seriously hurt.
I see the problem in the use of huge glass surfaces without support beams in there. If the aquariums are equipped with several support beams in the glass surfaces, so they are smaller and less susceptible to material failure due to the surface area being too large.
feels like kind of a bad idea to get foreign contractors for something of this scale too. you'd want the engineers to be available on-site and regularly for inspections and stuff. i think it is definitely possible to make this work, from an engineering/physics standpoint; but considering the constant stresses and variables such as temperature and biochemicals in the water, i would think weekly inspections and lots of sensors to monitor the state of the structure would be prudent.
@@alveolate was more the Germans fault with them Americans knowing what they were doing and how t8 handle the glass properly, even with limited tech back in 2002, and could have added extras layer of glass, even to rebuild the large aquarium structure ,elsewhere by now
A truly alarming incident and unfortunate for the lives of those marine animals. The lack of a definitive cause for the aquarium burst and the ensuing loss certainly brings to light concerns about the design and maintenance of such large-scale structures.
PETA is more concerned with the lives of fish than the lives of people, it seems. Aquariums are a good teaching tool, even ones that are just for showcasing the beauty of fish. Calling fish "sentient" is just muddying the waters. They are food for humans, sharks, etc, etc., so giving them a good life in an aquarium is fine.
true, but how many fish lived their entire lives there in those 20 years, without any human induced suffering or without lacking anything. they were not being kept from living like fish would anywhere else. they had food, clean water and had people making sure they were well. calling this animal abuse just makes no sense at all, they were not even being used as food and they had plenty of space to live. if giving them a good life like this is considered abuse, cattle breeding for food or even having pets also is
Cool video, but the fact there was no conclusion to the finding kind of sucks... it did last 20 years though, everything would have a life span. Personally the fact it was dripping, suggests that something is misaligned, be it gaskets or the dome itself. If it's misaligned, unforeseen stresses occur on the material, and over time failure. If I had to guess, the 2nd theory of the 'glass' drying out causing stress is what did it.
Yep. years and years of no problems followed by a sudden issue after a renovation implies it was the renovation, not the initial build. My GUESS is, the only reason the flawed construction theory made it into the report was because the hotel was hoping for the company that made it to be liable and requested that that angle be pursued.
As someone who keeps marine fish, you can either purchase wild caught fish or captive bred fish. I only purchased captive bred ones, and they live an amazing life with good care and optimal living conditions. I don’t think it is cruel to keep them in captivity! And those people saying it’s unfair on the fish I think need to toughen up 😂
You should be aware when an american construction worker says: "They dont have the technology here" Its highly propable that they dont have it too. That reminds me of the Story of autonomous driving Cars. The car industry is trying this for decades. And then one American Company comes from nowhere just to claim they can do it.
You deserve more subs and views, you had everything to keep an audence even w/ short attention span locked in; the narrative pacing for its storytelling and visuals.
I used to work for the Radisson Group until 2020 when they were struck by an economic collapse. I was TERRIFIED when I heard about this it in the news! You have no idea how lucky it is that nobody died from this. The story would be radically different if it happened just 10 hours later/earlier...
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To find out what happened they should try recreating the conditions with several miniature models using the same exact materials to test out on.
We shoud have more aquariums to introduce the wonders of God's creation to more people.
I worked at that hotel from 2018 to 2020 as a chef, and during that time, the aquarium was constantly under construction and leaking. The people who worked at the bar beneath the aquarium always joked about what would happen if it ever broke. Finally, it happened, and I’m very happy that no one was seriously injured.
oh if it was leaking then u answered the comment above u’s question. so it was the glue
@@Dayvbeats but.. the man said that No one has this type of technology in Germany! and he was so proud saying it :(
@@mlembrantright! Where is this asshole now. Probably still on tour impersonating the Hulkster.
Yikes, very lucky everyone was ok 🙏
wow
The fact not a single camera was pointed towards this million dollar plus aquarium is shocking in its own right.
I was thinking about that... My only plausible explanation is because the hotel rooms have windows facing inside the building, cameras might be intrusive on privacy or relevant laws
@@tvh369 They can't really, either camera would have useless angle of mostly floor or it would capture some of the rooms behind or next to the aquarium.
Well why do you wanna put a camera there? To watch the fish from the security office? I dont see a reason why cameras would be places just to supervise a big aquarium
@@LucyWoIf For cases like this? why do you put a camera outside ur café? to watch people drink? no its to watch possible robbers
@@goncalobalanca4299 If they were worried about divers stealing the fishes they would put camera there, clearly that wasn't a point.
Heart broken for the fish, happy to see they at least rescued a few of them.
I'm actually surprised that people tried to rescue them. I can only imagine the scramble to find ANYTHING they could hold them in.
The kitchen was happy
Yeah. I'm here for the fish, too. 😞
Fish are friends not food
The attention to detail and animation of Marin taking candy after surviving the largest free standing aquarium was perfect lol
I was there 2 years ago it was so cool
I mean give the man a lifetime supply you know? 😂
I would have taken some too :)
lots of fish were harmed in the making of this video
He earned it.
"Burried under all sorts of delicious debris"
Man you know how to frame a disaster and make it a little less grim and a bit of fun.
talk about "death by chocolate"!
Was he charged for stealing chocolate as well? :)
It's a core skill of any form of public speaking. Maintaining the audience's attention on you by throwing in the occasional joke, pun, or break from the standard flow of your presentation.
It is nice to see it done skillfully.
quite literally...
*chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water*
I mean he 100% copied that from the german newspaper, nothing about these kind of youtubers is original, its just a compiling already existing stories.
As an aquarist and somebody who cares extensively about fish, it’s kinda crazy to hear people say not to keep fish in tanks at ALL.
They completely miss the issue. You can keep a fish and give it better quality of life than they’d ever see in the wild, however you need to pay very close attention to the water chemistry, feeding, stocking, and other variables to make sure they’re being kept properly. Unfortunately, many of these large companies don’t bother and just shove together whatever looks prettiest, which is where ethical problems arise.
Please, if you’re going to keep any kind of pet, do your research and make sure you can provide the quality of care they deserve.
I keep an African cichlid with Cory Dora’s, he chill tho.
lol how your name is literally just "fish", perfect
Better quality of life according to who? Did you ask the fish if they'd prefer to be rescued by humans, or if they'd rather remain in their natural habitat?
@ Objective, measurable quality of life standards such as water quality and husbandry standards. Fish are becoming increasingly captive bred and used to living in aquariums, many of them would die if you set them out into the wild.
PETA is a loose assortment of re ta rds. you should not listen to them ever
I’d love to see an interview with some of the fish that survived
I have zero doubt that PETA tried.
Blub blub blub, what a nightmare -Nemo, a surviving fish
They were pretty tight lipped.
They can't talk.
NDA.
@@Espartanica Or, maybe you're just not listening to them.
Wanted to tell everyone I'm ok, I wasn't there when it happened, but still.
Good to know
thank god
I was worried sick!
Thanks for letting us know! Be safe
omg thank you! I was worried there for a bit.
Lesson 1. Don't build massive acrylic single piece water tanks.
Lesson 2. When building something like this, design shear points/lines so you get a partial and not a complete failure.
Lesson 3. Point a camera at your giant damn aquarium. You can get a decent wifi camera for like 20 bucks.
Lesson 4. When nobody in Germany wants to build and certify the thing, they probably know why.
Clearly, nobody in Germany wanted to build and certify it because nobody in Germany has the technology!
@@dominicbofficial Or nobody in Germany was arrogant enough to presume they could get away with it when the structure inevitably failed.
Or perhaps, no body in Germany had the technology to build an aquarium that big because it is not a typical product. Just because something isn’t made in one country doesn’t mean that country doesn’t think it’s safe. Furthermore if you watched the video, he stated the aquarium was built in 2002. That’s over 20 years ago. Honestly something that size and age most definitely was starting to have issues due to age, not quality of technology. Aquariums are quite safe when done correctly and taken care of properly. The listed reasons for the break are not technology based rather old age (glue), improper maintenance (dry spell), and accident (the hammer). I don’t understand why you say Germany has a moral high ground because they didn’t built the aquarium so they obviously know it was eventually going to fail. But that is how you are coming across. Honestly 20 years without any major issues besides the leakage shows how good the quality of the aquarium was.
If you don’t believe me, watched the TV series Tanked. It’s a series that follows a real aquarium company in California that works on tanks like that of the one in the video. They go through the whole process including their fails. It is fascinating to see how aquariums are built.
@@grandmothergoose The thing lasted 20 years, I'd say that's pretty good for something one of a kind and experimental like that.
@@grandmothergooseI would like to point out when the renovations were done in 2019 the original company that manufactured and installed the aquarium were not even contacted. It was local companies and they basically disassembled the entire thing and used different adhesive when putting the same acrylic panels back together. The original company every put up a statement on their website.
Imagine just chilling on your night shift and then 30 seconds later getting thrown thru a wall lol.
And then covered in chocolate
free chocolate :D
LUL And then die 😂 imagine that 🤣
I hate it when that happens, especially when when the boss gets mad 'cos I left my desk early.
At least he got some free chocolate
I'm very glad the injured man took some Lindt chocolate to make his experience a little less traumatic.
@StefanRial Bro are they serious?? It’s not like these chocolate would have been sold anyway, they were obviously gonna throw that stuff and him taking a few wouldn't change anything !
@StefanRial This is Germany, not backwards countries like the US. I expect that they understood and let it go. EU countries tend to know better when it comes to work-related matters.
@@sarahnadeofpoetry And the chocolate was likely be unsellable thank to the fish water and whatever else
i'd do the same exact thing lol
@@arran4285 mmm Lindt and fish...
11:05 I think the dryspell did it. It burst ALL AROUND into pieces. That's not 1 single point of failure. The material wouldn't explode all around if ONE area is damaged and IF it was the glue you'd seen leaks or the pannels would have come apart at its weakest point. A good gluing (2k) can hold tighter than the parts that are glued together. The material was made brittle and when one section failed the rest came along with it through the explosive nature and whatnot.
Well we don’t really know if I burst at one point or all at once since there was no surveillance footage and eyewitnesses couldn’t report since glass breaking is nearly instant
The fact that a high-end luxury hotel doesn't have the surveillance cameras in the lobby is incredible!
indeed
precisely because it is a luxury hotel it doesn't have surveillance cameras in the lobby. Privacy and all that.
The Germans learned their lesson about messing up *and* keeping too many records.
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(Yes this is a WW2/Nuremberg joke)
In current year privacy is luxury afforded to only the rich and powerful.
its germany camera are rare that why
How they joined the acrylic panels seamlessly and without a noticeable join is super simple. They use a solvent glue it melts the surface of both pieces allowing the polymer chains to interact and create new bonds the solvent then evaporates. Because the polymer chains were allowed to form bonds and no solvent remains after where the material joint was made the joint area is indistinguishable on a molecular level. Any material that squeezes out can be sanded and polished smooth this is also a very common technique in building plastic scale models where a solvent (Acetone) is used to join the model pieces made from polystyrene.
I had envisioned the panel-joining process as being like soldering gold and silver, but with a solvent to bind the molecules rather than application of heat. Sounds like I was just about right!
Nice
Probably not healthy for fish. I think they cured it with resin, but instead of curing a solid inner lining, they just left the edges of each piece cured and under time, especially with such temp differences, would stress it enough to break.
@@andylee5759Did you not read the comment? The acrylic pieces were chemically welded together, there is no epoxy used in this proccess
@@andylee5759they're fish. Please
When you revealed the breaking of the aquarium, my jaw DROPPED. I knew it was coming, but I was still so floored. Your videos are incredible.
At first, I was confused with how many of your videos I had recommended to me, out of nowhere. With the level of quality you deliver with every video, I have to say it's no surprise. Rapidly becoming some of my favourite content on RUclips.
as far as i know they are a branch of the german channel "simlicissimus" which has delivered amazing content for years.
And hoog
The person that talks in this video also has a channel called Hoog. He makes very nice videos on The Netherlands mostly.
As the other comments mentioned, it's a joint venture of the dutch channle Hoog, and the simplicissimus guys. simplicissimus already had an english channle before, but it didnt work out. Both hoog and simply are great content creators, and fern ist the best of both worlds imo.
If you watch Hoog or Simplissicimus that's also why
This happened in Japan back in 2011, it was caused by an 8.2 earthquake which destroyed a 250000 gallon aquarium at a shopping mall, damaging many of the nearby stores.
I hope they fix it in the 8.3 update
CoolStoryBob
Okay sorry but Japan shouldn’t be having aquariums
@@UrBigSisKey💯🫡
@@herobrine1847💀
7:40
“nObOdY iN gErMaNY hAs tHe tEcHnOlOgY” -Jesse Ventura 2002
Well if they did why didn't a local company step up and make it
They could make a terrarium to replace it instead, just plants and no animals. If any animal were to be included, if possible, are the "cleaning crew" like isopods or springtails, or even certain beetles.
I like it
That's actually not a bad idea! Such a thing would be way cheaper in the long run, and could potentially be used as a small butterfly house, depending on moral acceptability and ongoing costs.
I'm envisaging an array of tropical-ish plants including one or two tall, slender plants or vines, and then a gradient of different colours of air plants to fill the vertical space.
I wish beetles were sentient like fish
Nah, soon enough you'll find another backwards association like PETA screaming at it.
@@herobrine1847fish aren't sentient
It's actually crazy that there was not a single security camera that recorded the event.
Somewhat suspicious methinks. Unless the management has been told to surrender all footage for legal reasons.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch I would think so too, but electricity prices were insane in germany in 2022 and are still really bad tbh now. I bet the owners thought they could save money by turning off the security cams during off hours as they had staff present nearby. typical penny wise and a pound short upper management stupidity.
thats Germany, they dont like cameras unless its for filming a gangbang porn
What would be the point of a security camera filming aquarium? Not to mention the issue of having rooms right behind it, so you can't really film aquarium without also filming guests who don't have their curtains closed.
Good point. If anything wed just have a view of the lobby below at least, we could at least see fish flopping and the water rush past. Makes sense there wouldn't be any higher in the room@samomuransky4455
“On the way out he took a chocolate” they did my man dirty 😂😂😂
me: *has a camera pointed at a diy squirrel feeder*
them: *no camera for a world record setting attractions worth millions*
liability is expensive
Did the squirrel feeder explode yet?
I was around the corner when the aquarium exploded. Helicopters were circling the hotel, and half the downtown area was blocked off. Until today, it's not entirely clear where most of the water drained.
I was going from Alexanderplatz to Hackeshen Höfe in the morning and I remember seeing a ton of debris and lots of emergency vehicles. Pretty wild.
wikipedia says storm drains and sewers?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaDom#Rupture_and_destruction
It was like -8°C that day in Berlin, right? Guess that didn't help with the rescue of the fish and the cleanup.
I was also around the corner on that day, but a different corner. Thats why you didnt see me. I found the missing water, but it tastes awful, you guys probably wont want it back.
Probably rusting the shit out of infrastructure
How the fuck can a major hotel in a major city in 2022 not have cameras in their lobby? + the animation and work done on this video is insane!
Probably because of the hotel rooms facing the aquarium - that would've been a privacy issue
No company in Germany wanted to give a guarantee for such an aquarium, so the companies refused.
The US company then built it.
But it was clear during the renovation that the acrylic glass would have had to be checked.
But they didn't.
I'm impressed with what that company accomplished and I tend to blame the draining and renovation for ultimately sabotaging a great product.
the only thing i needed to hear to clear up “how did this happen?”
‘acrylic tank’
yeah. when you read between the lines it is pretty obvious what happened and why.
Yeah it was BS what the guy in the video said about Germany not having the technolog. They simply knew something could happen and then they would be liable.
@@caro0605 American arrogance at play.
I stayed at this Hotel about 5 Years ago. Crazy to see, that that thing broke.
Same
Same 😭. It's so sad.
i like that this wasnt drawn out into a 50 min video
The quality of the animation, the construction of the aquarium, its breaking, its subsequent reconstruction from the cracked pieces, everything is top notch!
Except this isn't the largest aquarium in the world. Not even close. Its more of a fishtank than aquarium
@@RugMann it was the largest FREESTANDING aquarium in the world. Look it up!
Welcome to Engwish language trying to use Latin words like "aquarium" without fumbling. It MEANS "a fish tank". Take your flashy light and walk the dark corridor to watch a moving picture about it, if you need somebody to draw a picture. That should amount you 24 000 words every second until you get the picture.
John Cleese could joke about it, because he actually learned the language of this Latin script to do Life of Brian. Modern American is on a downward spiral to turn the gymnaesium into a place of gym bros chewing on slim jims.
"He lands in the chocolate shop next door, buried under all sorts of delicious debris."
LOL 🤣🤣🤣
If that had been me I would have gained ten pounds in the half hour before they found me 🤣
That had me rolling laughing, not nice. That por guy :(
What’s funny weirdo
5:05 legend
😂
fast thinking there
I was there on Wednesday, December 14th, enjoying cocktails with my coworkers until late at night. We were all completely shocked when we heard the news on Friday morning. Luckily we stayed in a different hotel.
We even talked about how it felt so crazy sitting next to such a big aquarium, feeling anxious it could burst. Speculating how thick the glass must be to hold such pressure. But of course we calmed ourselve with „it’s been here for 20 years, it’s not going to spontaneously break right now when we’re here“
And hey! You were right. 😂it didn’t break while you were there.
u thought lol XD
Way to jinx it
Knowing my luck, it definitely would've broke not only while I was there, but while I would've been in the lobby too.
Hammer and chisel hypothesis;
Did someone put a trigger shrimp in the tank?
I know my saltwater aquarium days ended suddenly when my 110 gallon tank blew out and flooded the house.
I added a rather pretty shrimp in a week before
Likely, but extremely improbable in actuality
I can imagine the shrimp saying to his neighbors all that week, "you guys know I can break us out of here, right? It's easy, just whack that barrier there, then we're home free." All the other fish responding "NOOOOOOOOO!"
WE SOLVED IT LESGOOO
Mantis shrimp be like:
@@migamafiri6473 u make no sense
0:22 why did I think he said “the gays often wander…” and not question it 😂
Gaze, not gays
Nah man, its a "z". He said gayz
He said, “their gaze”, but this is funnier. 😂
I do be wanderin’
Baited time stamp comment. Fkoff
SpiegelTV from germany did a documentation about the building of this thing. They hired a special company from the USA, because nobody in germany could or wanted to do it. The best scene is where the foreman tells the interviewer: "Nobody in germany has the technology to do this..", and Im just sitting there imagining the typical german architect telling them the idea is lunatics and this thing will blast eventually :D
I mean he was right, it was German maintenance that made it fail, not the American construction.
Awful, just because one may actually do it, doesn't mean it should have...
it's more like, you hired a foreign team to build the thing... are you sure your local maintenance crew knows exactly what's going on when they do their inspections? there's also this little issue with language AND measurement units... who knows if the yanks used gallons and psi and the germans got the conversion wrong? those are very annoying units to convert.
there's also that "secret" glue they used to keep things seamless... how do you actually monitor or do maintenance if a huge part of the structure is "secret"?
You don't seem to have watched to the end to find out that no one knows the cause.
Superiority complexes cause simple mistakes like yours.
Typical American arrogance.
imagine wanting to be kind and offer a new acquaintance a chocolate, a Lindt, but he goes into a full PTSD flashback episode
Covered in sweat, breathing heavily, he just whispers "delicious debris..."
"Sorry, Jorge, i didn't know"
Lmao
Living decorations? They were fed, the tank was cleaned daily, added features and filters. These fish were way more then that. Regardless of how you see it there were people that genuinely cared for these fish. They weren't just an "attraction"
YES AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
ty for mentioning they managed to save some fish, that was my first worry before i remembered there were like, people under this thing. i'm rly happy they did
You'll be happy to know, no fish were harmed in the making of this video.
LMAO SAME
Hey, I mean, lives are lives in the end, I'd worry about all of them.
Yeah I hated that no one talked about the fish and imagined there were people standing around the dying fish doing nothing to save them. I'm glad to know that there were at least some that tried to save as many fish as they could.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person whose first thought was something like this!
Sure, I feel terrible for the humans caught up in this incident, but at least they would have probably had more options to escape from or try and survive the danger, and then rebuild their lives once it was over - if you’re one of the animals living in the tank, though, you probably don’t even have that?
Your home just exploded with you in it, the current sucks you out and flings you and your neighbors all over, and you just kind of have to hope that some of these random air-breathing giants (who are still reeling from the blast themselves and probably rightly terrified for their own safety as well) will decide to take a second in the midst of the crisis to rescue you before you dry out and/or suffocate, and that once all that’s over you won’t be put back into a new home that will do the same thing to you again? 😢
How absolutely terrifying for all the creatures involved, human or animal!
NGL the whole animal welfare part of this all is kinda ridiculous to me. Peta never fails to make me roll my eyes... As a long-time fish owner, and someone who's very interested in tanks... Fish breeding, fish keeping, etcetc is HUGE! A lot of people are into it and these fish tend to live really good lives. What we should be against is the overcrowding of tanks - countless times have I seen competitive stingrays kept in elaborate tanks when they're solitary animals that need the ocean's current to feel safe... For tropical fish, they can lead healthy and happy lives in tanks. Even if it's a smaller tank or something - as long as they have a little over the necessary space per fish they'll be fine. Make sure they're compatible species and kept fed - they'll live good lives. You can't just shut down the entire fish breeding business just because - nor can you release these fish without raising major ecological concerns and effectively killing them since they are dependent on humans.
Sure, to most people they're decorations in a tank - but if they're kept healthy what's the problem? They're conscious, yes, but it's not like these fish yearn for the ocean.. They aren't glass pacing, they aren't bored out of their minds, they look good to me.
Literally nothing PETA says should be listened to. Not because animal welfare isn't important, it quite is, however PETA is a criminal organization that uses animal welfare as a front. If you look into their organization it's so shady they might as well be a black hole. Some of the highlights include literally sponsoring domestic terrorists in the US, having a 95% killrate for their animals, operating "kill vans" that drove around snatching pets out of yards and euthanizing them before dumping their bodies in dumpsters (they were literally caught and fined for doing this) and advocating for the elimination and criminalization of life-saving medicines that are derived from animal sources like insulin. Unless you're the president of PETA that needs her insulin and declares herself exempt because "the animals need her to save them."
It's just useless PETA making a scene because that's all these "activists" are able to do. Because they're too stupid to do real work, shouting irrelevant stuff is all they do.
yeah all the moralizing is fucking annoying. Just make sure they're well cared for.
Same here I keep fish and bred shrimp. An aquascaper myself. As you said, space, recreating their natural environments plus compatible fish tank mates
Its like saying we should release pugs into the wild because its inhumane to keep them as pets, even though they aren't suited to survive in the wild. 💀
I feel lucky having seen it in person. It was an awesome sight to behold. Glad to hear nobody died.
11:30 peta probably shouldnt have been the one to speak up, with all the animal killing it does 😅
I was gunna say, lol. PETA are professional animal exploiters themselves, using them as excuses to milk donation money from well-intentioned people.
Well that's how they knew it was a problem - they're experts on animal killing.
Peta has never been known for their self awareness- regularly calling the kettle black.
Probably what happens when the founder of your animal welfare group believes that domestication is a myth and that any animal that isn't living wild should be euthanized...
Stupid timestamp comment
they don't euthanize dogs? why peta is even talking
It’s so nuts. I was there a few weeks prior, on tour with my band.
I’m a photographer and I made a walking pov photography video of Berlin, including this spot.
I remember the day it exploded and being sent tons of messages about it.
It surely was beautiful to see in person and to capture.
We know. We have you on surveillance camera. You'll be getting a visit from some men soon to discuss your "visit".
@@danroberts9050Absolutely shaking in my britches 😨😨😨😨 oh em gee!!
At least the fish were rescued 3:37 😂
Lmaoo I was in tears😂😂
"It is a miracle how no one died"
Meanwhile the fish:
You mean the food?
@@TheGreatDanish shush
@@TheGreatDanish You are technically also food.
Everyone here is technically God's food.
You're Jeffrey Dahmers food@@TheGreatDanish
"surprisingly no one died"
Fishes: Starts singing, "Don't cry, I'm just a fish~♪"
😢😢😢😢😢 if fish are sentient, they are someone, not something.
Fr when I saw the dead fish my heart sank
@@Letthembelightpeaceonelove fish are sentient
@@CauãDacruz-k7z I know they are... i was saying they are sentient, so that means they are someone.
0:29 your title and thumnail need a big asterisk next to "largest"... great production value though!
Is that’s the case, a whole lot more thumbnails on RUclips would need at least one 😂
"no one died" *freeze-frame and slow-mo of all the fish pouring out of the aquarium*
A fish isn't someone. They're fish get over it.
@@wardocc9196 I hope everyone cares as little for you as you do for the lives of other living creatures 😊
@MengyaPanda Quit being so dramatic. You know nothing about what I care for. All living creatures are not created equal. Tell me you never swatted a fly or a mosquito because it was annoying you. Or stepped on a spider because you were afraid it. Never mind, you'll just lie anyway in an attempt to maintain a moral high ground.
@@wardocc9196 You're right but do you really have to be that rude? You could've confronted it better but you seem like you're also overdramatic.
@wardocc9196 Concern trolls. Not as frequently recognized because they are usually commenting on any one with animals about how their standard of care isn't up to par.
Just a minor bugbear from a person in the Aquarium hobby you have referred to Acrylic as acrylic glass, Acrylic is not a type of glass at all. It also isn't glued together so much as the solvent used causes the panels in the zones being joined to fuse together permanently. A well made Acrylic aquarium should pretty much be timeless. What I am questioning is the bonding process they used between the panels because generally speaking when you are doing this you stand the panel up on the surface it is being bonded too, and use sewing needles or another really thin piece of metal shim to hold the panel off the other one and then inject the solvent into the joint and rapidly remove the needles. After the acrylic is allowed to cure to produce a crystal clear seam / finish you use a plumbers torch and gently move it across the seam.
What I suspect is that their process to joined the panels took too long and the panels only partially cured due to the size of the panels and you had a whole structure of weak spots. That and the generally thickness of the panels leads me to have further questions. There is a formula that tells you how thick your acrylic or glass panels need to be based upon how tall your structure is. Basically for a tank that is 4' deep (1300mm for metric folks) the panel needs to be around 1.00" or 25mm thick. As your tank gets deeper this thickness goes up. and as the thickness goes up it becomes harder to get proper fusion between panels.
Wow. Interesting.
Acrylic is known as plexiglass, so maybe thats why he referred to acrylic as acrylic "glass". However, it does not matter. If you continued to watch a second longer, he clarified that it isn't glass..
@@pikachuispeekingatyou1795 Plexiglass is a type of acrylic, and it gets its name based on how it is manufactured. You can use Plexiglass for a lot of different applications where you would also use acrylic, however one of those applications you should not use plexiglass for instead of acrylic is in aquariums.
The suggestion that weak spots could result from a bonding process taking too long is plausible, but it's crucial to clarify that the primary concern is achieving proper fusion and curing rather than just the duration of the process. Rapid solvent evaporation is essential for a strong bond.
@@pikachuispeekingatyou1795 That's what I was getting at, having built some large aquariums, once you start getting into the really large builds where your seams are more than 8' long you are fighting the clock to get your solvent consistently through the joints and then your panels fit up. What I suspect happened is that there was a problem in the curing process, causing incomplete fusion of the joints, or possibly contamination/inclusions. And the worse thing is with the larger panels you may not see that the center of the panel is not fully fused. Ie. It fused 90% of the way from each outside edge leaving the 10% in the middle unfused in multiple spots. And we polish the acrylic after the curing process is done which helps hide those issues.
Water is not a static load as well it moves and sloshes so if you don't have a fully fuse panel the water movement day in day out will start propagating cracks originating from those area's.
Imagine how deadly it would have been if the lobby was more crowded, the force of the water plus chunks of broken glass could cut someone in half!
my sister was meant to be there with her class for a school trip at the time it broke but the bus broke down so they were late
@@WarthunderNoob1060 No she wasn't lmfao. No tours were open and the collapse happened at 5 am. you mean to tell me that your "sister" was going to see an aquarium for a school trip and was SUPPOSED to arrive at 5 in the morning when nobody was even at the front desk? Seriously you are so full of it bro
It's tempered glass STUPID!!!
xd
@@WarthunderNoob1060
Acrylic probably won't cut someone in half, but glass might.
Bro made a video called "Why The World's Biggest Aquarium Broke" only to say 10:48 into it that actually we don't know why
Hey at least he did a good job explaining and visualizing why
*Physics.
@@IIZZIIKK Ai
Well, the video might just be a question/invitation for rational minds to watch.
In this exact same video, three hypothesises are offered.
He gave 3 possible reasons. But none of them are definitive.
As a fish keeper this is probably the worst case scenario I can think of for an aquarium breaking. So many rare fish dead and so much money down the drain.
People underestimate how powerful water is all of the time. The fact that enough water rushing fast enough launched a human being through a wall should be testament to that. It's a miracle it didn't happen earlier in the day, no doubt a whole crowd of people would have been crushed, drowned, or suffocated to death against bodies being pushed against them from the rushing water.
the derbis is the big issue, the water is dangerous sure but drowning isint as big as a risk as buildings are filled with holes
I find it both difficult to imagine and amazingly shortsighted that not a single camera was directed at the aquarium.
Both for security and streaming to hotel guest rooms or the internet at large.
cameras are quite rare in germany
I have to wonder if the hotel rooms are precisely why no camera was pointed that way. Yes there is only a limited expectation of privacy when you're by a window, but I image not a lot of guests would be happy if they knew streaming or other cameras were capturing their room 24/7.
@1:38
> "It's an absolute miracle that no one died during this incident"
> shows fish flying as the aquarium explodes
"it is an absolute miracle, that no one died"
tropical fish: "Am I a joke to you?"
Kind of, yeah.
@@BiggieTrismegistusEven though they have been proven to be sentient?
I'm afraid I have to disagree with PETA's stance on keeping fish in Aquariums. Keeping fish in an aquarium or a tank is not even remotely animal cruelty unless it is a species of fish that requires constant swimming to survive like Tuna, Manta, and a few others. Also, PETA does not understand that accidents happen. A cat getting run over by a car and the driver made an effort to avoid it, or a fish tank that ruptured due to a defect and a dozen fish died as a result, are not at all acts of cruelty. PETA and a handful of other animal rights organizations are full of BS. However, I abhor the act of animal cruelty.
PETA doesn't actually care about animals you know they put down more cats and dogs than kill shelters do? And have on record killed family pets after having them for less than a few hours?
Aquariums aren't bad they are actually really really good, they can help us understand animal behavior and apply it to conservation efforts they can also help the public learn about the natural world
Not all aquariums are great but the majority of them focus on conservation and rescue
PETA has been known to steal people's pets and has made repeated stances on trying to eradicate dogs and cats completely, and want to erase them as pets. I'm pretty sure any stance from PETA really shouldn't be agreeable.
PETA is horrible. They are actually opposed to keeping any animals in captivity. They should have their charitable status revoked. If they were truly an animal rights organization they would support the right to live. They don't. They vehemently oppose animal shelter reform that aims to improve animal welfare and any policies geared towards the rights of domestic animals to be allowed to live rather than be killed for arbitrary reasons. Animals they don't kill themselves frequently get transferred to places that kill for space. They comment on things to benefit from news coverage and try to take credit when anti cruelty laws get passed. Animal rights lawyer Nathan Winograd has documented a lot of their egregious behavior and policies.
Using PETA and their questionable actions as a scapegoat for why animal rights don't matter is tiring. It is animal cruelty because you're enslaving animals and essentially putting them on display for entertainment, simple as that. It does not matter if their life is any better or worse compared to their natural existence really, you wouldn't support a human being in a cage at a zoo even if they were treated well, so why fish?
@presentfactory Depends, did the human choose to be in the zoo? I know a few people who would happily jump at the opportunity to be paid and pampered to just lay around their room all day.
Thumbnail: Deadly Burst!!
This dude: Nobody died
Me: Channel Blocked
Hard to believe I was once there, among with my classmates, riding on that elevator that now is only surrounded by air.
Damn really that must have been cool too see world biggest Aquarium must be shock too see it would be destroyed and gets water all over the hotel.
@@denniswrande6004 It was cool in hindsight. In the moment it was just a thing that was happening.
@@pomeranianproductions647 Ah, youth.
I went there exactly 1 year before it happened, the elevator was closed though
"Buried under all sorts of delicious debris..."
What a line.
They collected, catalogued, photographed, studied and even gave a serial number to each and every shard of broken glass... How very German of them.
Jorge Marin is such a giga chad for sneaking out candy after bursting through a freaking wall💪🤙🏻
I'm sure the dude was in shock and didn't even think about it LOL
We have found the next James Bond
I had been on that aquarium elevator one or two weeks before it exploded, was shocked to see it in the news. I had a friend who lived near Mitte (the neighborhood where the aquarium was), and he told me that the streets surrounding it were closed down due to the flooding and dead fish.
Hmmm, interesting how right after you were there it "mysteriously" exploded. I need you in for questioning by Thursday!
i was not expecting "delicious debris"
1:41 i guess the 1000 fish were not so lucky 🥲
Just what I was about to say
Poor fish. They had to have suffered.
i feel sad or them
I can tell you what caused the failure: *not enough REDUNDANCY.*
Sounds like each part of the tank relied on another part for its strength, meaning the compromise of any single part endangers the structural integrity of the entire thing.
What you've described is actually *incredible* redundancy.
6:38 What a painstaking task 😣
“Fortunately, no one died”
*slow motion fish being sent to their eternal doom*
The one in "no one" almost always refers to humans. Keep that in mind going forward.
„No one died“
The fish: Are we a joke to you?
0:56 back rooms looking ah location
ok but I still cannot get over the fact that the man took the chocolate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 wtf man
That was such an odd detail, it felt like chekhov's gun xD
Let this poor man have his chocolate. You don't almost drown in a building without any external flooding every day.
Dude had a rough night, let him have the chocolate. Besides those chocolates will likely not be sold again, since sea water could have contaminated some of them.
@@Blex_040Yeah lol, if this was a work of fiction the chocolate he took as a souvenir would have the last evidence to the sabotage after all the rest of the candies were thrown out
Would honestly do the same. Some people see disasters as a tragedy; others see it just as much a tragedy, but also an opportunity for free stuff!
I remember riding in the elevator as a child in this big aquarium. and I think by my self "If the aquarium breaks, the fish have no chance and the hotel (it's on the first floor, the elevator surrounds it) will swim away " round 10 years later I saw it in the news. I was shocked! 😢
Man kuddos for the animation
And the entire rest of the video too
My man wasn't leaving this horrific scene without something 😂 Just took a handful of candy lol
i would have done the same honestly
I am SO glad some of the fish survived ❤🐟
gald Jorge got some candy for his troubles
7:39 - seems like nobody in America has it either 😂😂
So incredibly impressed with the animations on this one! How did you guys make the explosion?
exactly, the most quality visuals out there
I assume they used some sort of flood/flow thing in Blender. I know it exists, but not the name
Pretty sure it’s done by AI
Houdini would be the industry standard Software for such fluid simulations :)
@Daniel-lg5dj no. Not it was not. Yhey clearly used blender or similar along with fluid simulation. The cracks looks like voronoi meshes.
5:04 may have been the most random and intricate detail i love it 😭
Good for him. As soon as he said the guy landed in the Lindt shop and was ok. The first thing that went through my mind was I hope at least he got some chocolate.
I've stayed at the Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin. It was over a decade ago now and was for a stag party. I have fond memories of it. The one thing that stood out for me besides the impressive aquarium was how friendly and welcoming the staff were. I'm glad no one was seriously hurt.
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I see the problem in the use of huge glass surfaces without support beams in there. If the aquariums are equipped with several support beams in the glass surfaces, so they are smaller and less susceptible to material failure due to the surface area being too large.
Guess supprt beams for next aqua dome, even to be built elsewhere in aquarium or somewhere more ethical too
feels like kind of a bad idea to get foreign contractors for something of this scale too. you'd want the engineers to be available on-site and regularly for inspections and stuff. i think it is definitely possible to make this work, from an engineering/physics standpoint; but considering the constant stresses and variables such as temperature and biochemicals in the water, i would think weekly inspections and lots of sensors to monitor the state of the structure would be prudent.
@@alveolate was more the Germans fault with them Americans knowing what they were doing and how t8 handle the glass properly, even with limited tech back in 2002, and could have added extras layer of glass, even to rebuild the large aquarium structure ,elsewhere by now
Exactly! Thank you for your insight!
It wasn't glass, it was a polymer
A truly alarming incident and unfortunate for the lives of those marine animals. The lack of a definitive cause for the aquarium burst and the ensuing loss certainly brings to light concerns about the design and maintenance of such large-scale structures.
nah. we should build more of this type of stuff. just big cool things for the sack of it.
@@5hiftyL1v3aThis sarcasm right?
PETA is more concerned with the lives of fish than the lives of people, it seems. Aquariums are a good teaching tool, even ones that are just for showcasing the beauty of fish. Calling fish "sentient" is just muddying the waters. They are food for humans, sharks, etc, etc., so giving them a good life in an aquarium is fine.
@@FLPhotoCatcher They are sentient tho?
true, but how many fish lived their entire lives there in those 20 years, without any human induced suffering or without lacking anything. they were not being kept from living like fish would anywhere else. they had food, clean water and had people making sure they were well. calling this animal abuse just makes no sense at all, they were not even being used as food and they had plenty of space to live. if giving them a good life like this is considered abuse, cattle breeding for food or even having pets also is
Hearing someone goes through a wall, then hearing no one died is crazy. I can only imagine that type of pain
Cool video, but the fact there was no conclusion to the finding kind of sucks... it did last 20 years though, everything would have a life span. Personally the fact it was dripping, suggests that something is misaligned, be it gaskets or the dome itself. If it's misaligned, unforeseen stresses occur on the material, and over time failure. If I had to guess, the 2nd theory of the 'glass' drying out causing stress is what did it.
Yep. years and years of no problems followed by a sudden issue after a renovation implies it was the renovation, not the initial build.
My GUESS is, the only reason the flawed construction theory made it into the report was because the hotel was hoping for the company that made it to be liable and requested that that angle be pursued.
That's crazy there wasn't a single camera aimed at that thing, security or other.
As someone who keeps marine fish, you can either purchase wild caught fish or captive bred fish. I only purchased captive bred ones, and they live an amazing life with good care and optimal living conditions. I don’t think it is cruel to keep them in captivity! And those people saying it’s unfair on the fish I think need to toughen up 😂
4:45 ~ First time I heard "Delicious debris" used. 😆
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You should be aware when an american construction worker says: "They dont have the technology here"
Its highly propable that they dont have it too.
That reminds me of the Story of autonomous driving Cars. The car industry is trying this for decades. And then one American Company comes from nowhere just to claim they can do it.
Yupp. Ironically the chinese have better fsd too
@@MaticTheProtono they don't lol
@@samholdsworth420 yea they do
@MaticTheProto nope
@@samholdsworth420 yes
Big up the lad grabbing some Lidnt on his way out! Hahaha
The idea was fishy to begin with.
I like how you never miss a detail no matter how small it is ;) 5:06
never underestimate the destructive power of water. ever point your garden hose straight down, even for a few seconds? yard ruined.
You deserve more subs and views, you had everything to keep an audence even w/ short attention span locked in; the narrative pacing for its storytelling and visuals.
0:06 This thing managed to jumpscare me because my peripheral vision thought it was a Great White in dark water (????)
lol I can see that 😂
that night guard must have PTSD from that random tsunami 🤣😭 he better be living well off from the damages paid
5:10 I mean, at least he got some candy
Respect for him
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I used to work for the Radisson Group until 2020 when they were struck by an economic collapse. I was TERRIFIED when I heard about this it in the news! You have no idea how lucky it is that nobody died from this. The story would be radically different if it happened just 10 hours later/earlier...
3:15 THE WATER WAS RUSSIAN
its russias fault!!!! 😡😡😡😡
Mal wieder ein hammer Video, mega gute Arbeit!
Change title to "We don't know why The World's Biggest Aquarium Broke"
“Buried under delicious debris” 😂
I’m sure that’s not what he was thinking…..
i would also have definitely grabbed a fist full of candy if i were thrown into that candy shop
made me laugh so hard because it's something I can see both of my brothers doing so clearly 😂❤