There was a post about it leaking and flooding the mall. We dont have one here because we dont have crazy oil money nor the princes that are willing to pay it.
I watched the thing on national geo abou the construction of the Mall itself and a huge portion of it was the Build of the aquarium and the glass etc.
What's really unique about that glass front is that it was actually about 7 seperate pieces and they put them all in place then they superheated them and the joints faded so you cant tell. So technically it's 1 piece now.
And i think i remember them saying they have 30,000 species of fish in there.
The leak is the perfect metaphor to what has happened to Dubai's economy in recent months. The same hubris and easy credit that created a ridiculously huge self-parody of an aquarium in the desert for no one but a couple of sheiks gawk at now has left their economy in a mess with the worldwide credit crunch. I wouldn't be surprised at all if in a few years that aquarium is filled with hair algae and cyanobacteria because they ran short on funds to properly maintain it.
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