Kuroshio Sea

Jun 23, ’11 6:00 AM
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A single 22.5 m x 8.2 m x 60 cm acrylic glass panel at the aquarium in Okinawa. OK – sure – a Dubai aquarium has a slightly larger panel measuring 32.8 m x 8.3 m x 75 cm. One hundred and seven feet long. Thirty inches thick. Thirty feet high. 270 tons.

How?

The video will calm us down (please: full screen, HD) while we ponder the impossible logistics of moving around such an object and installing it in a building. Without leaks.

We appreciate the twenty or thirty thousand creatures living here all the more, after pondering this, raising more important questions, I think, than how did they get the glass in.

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  1. Jeff B,
    June 24, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Add these tidbits to your oceanic thinking caps:

    BBC Science: The world’s oceans are in shocking decline.

    The International Programme on the State of the Ocean has issued a new report on June 21, 2011.

    If the oceans go down, it’s game over. Every sea and ocean on our planet is part of one, global Ocean. This Ocean is like the earth’s circulatory system: it performs numerous vital functions which make the planet habitable and we cannot survive without it. Currently, the Ocean is in a critical state of health. If it continues to decline, it will reach a point where it can no longer function effectively and our planet will be unable to sustain the ecosystems that support humankind.

    Climate change is the biggest single threat to our Ocean’s health, but it’s not the only one.

    The 27 participants from 18 organisations in 6 countries produced a grave assessment of current threats – and a stark conclusion about future risks to marine and human life if the current trajectory of damage continues: that the world’s ocean is at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history.

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