Gigantic Aquarium Tank Holds Four - FOUR! - Whale Sharks

The Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, has a fish tank so big that it's called the Kuroshio Sea. The gigantic tank is 10 m (33 ft) deep, 35 m (115 ft) wide and 27 m (89 ft) long and holds the equivalent of 3 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water.

The tank is so large that not one, but four whale sharks live in it. The Daily Mail has more gorgeous photos of the aquarium exhibit: Link


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Saw a special on the Discovery channel (I think) on them making the tank/aquarium. If you find the article remotely interesting, you'd probably enjoy it as well.
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Interesting how whale sharks thrive so well in captivity, yet Great Whites don't.
I wonder if they would in a facility of this size.
(Well, you can put a bunch of *other* sea life in with a whale shark... and they won't get EATEN!)
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I've been meaning to go to the Ga aquarium, just never got around to it. I hear they had an excellent exhibit on photoluminescence a couple of years ago... hope its still there.
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