You may have heard about this, but it always amazes me when a shocking disaster like this one in hindsight seems to be just a disaster waiting to happen.
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Comparing this to the Titanic isn't fair to the Titanic. Industry practice at the time, regardless of how "unsinkable" a ship was, was to not have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship to be on them at the same time. Shipping lanes were busy enough back then that the purpose of life boats wasn't to be a safe harbor, but rather a means to transit from one ship to another. It is now pretty common knowledge that the SS California could have reached Titanic in time for more (if not all) passengers to be safely ferried across, if not for their inexplicable decision not to follow up on the rockets they saw (seriously, take two minutes to send a wireless transmission to inquire about ships firing rockets and they would have gotten their answer and been able to assist). It is only in hindsight that it becomes obvious that just because, based on shipping schedules, there should always be a ship close enough to provide aid, doesn't mean that a ship will provide aid.
That water behaves exactly the way we know water behaves was entirely predictable.
All true, but accidents happen ….. life itself is capricious ….. and in the meantime the aquarium gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people, just maybe don't replace it like for like.
How can this happen in Berlin? You obviously not familiar with the unmitigated disaster that the construction of the the new airport has been.
Funny to hear the question, how this could happen in Berlin. All Germans know how disorganized and chaotic this city is. I would ask, why such things do not happen more often?
Wait, how long did it take to build the new city airport BER? 😜
Re Notre Dame: Regardless of how inadequate the structural integrity of the building is/was, it is an historical artifact. As long as any structural upgrades are hidden and the look of the building is the same as it was before the restoration attempt and fire, then ok. However, to change the appearance of the building to conform to modern building codes or to change the uses to which the building could be put or just to appeal to modern architectural tastes, better to leave it in ruins.
To have an a aquarium that size ? ‘ you think you would use bullet proof acrylic glass and safety checks all around! Thank God it happened in early morning ( A disaster could’ve been prevented👍
Temperature differences helped. Hay, i drive over that sometimes.
Greed is slowly chiseling away at safety standards, regulations and eventually laws. Throw in cutting education funding and vilifying college educated folks and here we are. Tik toking our way to extinction
A very powerful boss or investor or maybe a protected group individual was involved, so no one would dare say no. I seriously think that we have a lot of vanity projects being given the go ahead which are totally unsafe and overly expensive. Quality is being sacrificed.
Poor fish being subject to high light the whole time ..very stressful for them.
It was an obscene concept.
🤦♂️for someone who spends hours rebuilding defunct tech, not understanding the historical importance of Notre Dame as it existed is pretty sad.
I like this show .
The Notre dame did not burn for 1000 years. Long enough
I wonder what happened to everyone that said this was a bad idea. There's now why they could have spent that much time and money without any sceptics.
You must be a genius engineer because your room is a mess!!!
I didn't even know that hotel existed until I watched this video. I'm glad no people were killed, but I'm still sad so many fish died, the poor little things 🙁 . Not going to lie, I think the whole concept wasn't very aesthetically pleasing. Maybe it was very different in person, but judging by the pictures, I don't think I would have been interested in visiting the building. It is still terrible this happened.
Thanks to the commenters who shared their Engineering perspective on the design issues. It will be fascinating to learn more about how the actual design of the Failed aquarium facility was developed — what design features were considered & rejected & WHY… Plus the factors that determined the design that was finally built.
Thank you. I went to the University of Victoria and took Dr. Foster's Disaster Planning course. These disasters always remind me of how important it is to design resilient systems. I wish I would have pursued that career path. Fukushima tops them all though.