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The world's largest aquarium broke. This is the story.
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no lil nibba
bro is a plant
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.
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
@@tommyhubbard342 They can still position them so that isn't a problem
@@tvh024 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
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.
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.
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. - - (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
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.
I'm very glad the injured man took some Lindt chocolate to make his experience a little less traumatic.
Since it was reported, I assume he was charged with theft and then fired from his job right after that
@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 !
he said he assumes, i doubht that happened haha@@thisannoyinggirlrightthere9359
It is just an assumption because I have no faith in humanity. No idea if that's actually what happened
@@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.
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
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
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 KZhead.
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
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
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💯🫡
I stayed at this Hotel about 5 Years ago. Crazy to see, that that thing broke.
Same
Like this comment to honor the poor fishies. 🙏
"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 🤣
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.
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
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.
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.
me: *has a camera pointed at a diy squirrel feeder* them: *no camera for a world record setting attractions worth millions*
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.
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.
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“
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
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. 💀
"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.
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.
Wow so quirky and edgy, you care about animals more than humans
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 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
"It is a miracle how no one died" Meanwhile the fish:
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!
11:30 peta probably shouldnt have been the one to speak up, with all the animal killing it does 😅
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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!
“Fortunately, no one died” *slow motion fish being sent to their eternal doom*
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
I had one of the rooms with a view that day. Just 5 minutes before a friend walked through the lobby! Had the uber been 5 minutes late there could have been a casualty 😬 I had just fallen half asleep again when i heard a massive WOOOOSH, tried to ignore it for a sec, then suddenly realized that only one thing was big enough to make so much noise, Sprinted to the window... Saw the chaos! Made it out through an emergency exit without issues. Drove to work early, on the way saw a puddle of rainwater on the ground and started to violently shiver. Had to tell myself all was good and I'm safe a few times to get that under Control 😅 all good now, but man that was a close one!
I call BS on that story, Germany doesn't have ubers.
@@NoName-tr3vs ofc germany has ubers but they aren't nearly as widespread and only available in bigger cities. But since Berlin is the capital and one of the biggest cities in germany you can take an uber there.
Cap
rain water???
@@NoName-tr3vs Ofc we do lmao but we only have UberX and Uber Taxi, no private drivers
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.
„No one died“ The fish: Are we a joke to you?
Calling the *fire* department for a *water-based* emergency... Great idea!
The idea was fishy to begin with.
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 have a reef tank and I'm also a DIY/3D print guy. Maybe I don't do it justice, but I don't like acrylic at all. It scratches easily and most importantly it's incompatible with one of the most common solvents: ethanol (and also other alcohols I think). It won't hurt it right away but once in contact with it, it will form cracks at some point. Maye even months later. That's probably why potential use of the wrong cleaning fluid is mentioned in the video. Glass cleaner often contains alcohols. I bought a kitchen tool that was made from acrylic glass and used it in the reef tank (some sort of stuffing syringe). The second time I wanted to use it, it was cracked. But maybe it's also a thing about the actual quality of the plastic. Acrylic tools, like protein skimmers, or like in this video whole tanks, have been used without problems in the reef keeping hobby.
acrylic always seems super fragile and prone to aging. They didn't use it because its a superior material, they used it because it can be cast in place.
4:45 ~ First time I heard "Delicious debris" used. 😆
"Buried under all sorts of delicious debris..." What a line.
7:39 - seems like nobody in America has it either 😂😂
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".
Imagine being a trainee at the reception desk on your first night shift and this happens. "Hey boss sorry to disturb, where can I find the mops?"
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! 😢
I am SO glad some of the fish survived ❤🐟
"it is an absolute miracle, that no one died" tropical fish: "Am I a joke to you?"
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.
That's crazy there wasn't a single camera aimed at that thing, security or other.
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.
Those poor fishies 😢
Ignore Peta
1:41 i guess the 1000 fish were not so lucky 🥲
Love it that you create videos in 18:9 its perfect for watching on the phone. And also soooo nice on an 21:9 monitor :)
This is by far one of the most high quality KZhead videos I’ve ever seen. The animation? The sounds? The narration… incredible. Thank you for this work of art!!
these videos are truly such a treat. the detail of the lindt chocolates on the floor is seriously one of my favorite things ever. thanks for your hard work :)
My man wasn't leaving this horrific scene without something 😂 Just took a handful of candy lol
I like how you never miss a detail no matter how small it is ;) 5:06
No one has died except for thousands of fish. R. I. P. 🥀💔
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.
it’s a good day when fern uploads
"surprisingly no one died" Fishes: Starts singing, "Don't cry, I'm just a fish~♪"
i love seeing getting notified you post a new video and am always super excited to watch. these just keep getting better i cant wait for your channel to grow even more!
Also, the Germans could not come up with the reason it broke. Maybe they should have asked the Americans who built it and designed it and the company that renovated it to do the investigation.
I'll save you the time. The question in the title is never answered. 10:40 "Ultimately, they can't pinpoint the origin of the crack, all three hypotheses are possible. Unfortunately and unsatisfying, there isn't an definitive answer."
Mal wieder ein hammer Video, mega gute Arbeit!
The timing, no cameras, shift change. This was probably sabatoge to collect insurance due to high upkeep costs.
surveillance cameras are rare in germany.
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...
I was in berlin this day to visit my grandparents i was near the aquadom when it happend i heard a loud bang and this typical glass shattering sound it felt so unreal and it was everything so fast i couldnt react there was like a big wave of watter glass and metall pieces i still not believe what just happened in the moment i thought this is impossible how could it brake I where there so often a couple of hours i found a fish on the street that was living i took it home and put it in my bathtub 😂 yeah i still have it but now i have an aquarium
lmfao well at least you were a rescuer, i hope that fish has a nice life with you
Doubtful of your claim. These are saltwater fish. Would not survive in your bathtub.
@@tomseppe6406 i actually have a saltwater aquarium but in the bathtub i put aquarium salt in it It was hard to clean btw
What were you doing at Alex at quarter to six in the morning bro
@@cameroneridan4558 i actually live in Heidelberg baden Württemberg me and my parents drove to Berlin at night we had to walk to the flat of my grandparents and to get there we have to walk near of the Aquadom
Wild, I work in the raddison franchise, pretty crazy seeing something like this happening.
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
In its place they should build a memorial to honor all the dead fish and other creatures that died during the collapse.
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 😂❤
Pretty sure the tropical fish conspired to escape like in finding nemo 🐠
Dude, just came accross your video and couldnt stop myself from subscribing. AMAZING ANIMATION SKILLS TOOOO (IM WATCHING ALL YOUR VIDEOS RN)
"No Tapping On The Glass" Someone tapped on the glass.
“It is an absolute miracle no one died during this incident” All the fish: 💀
Eine Wasseranimation ist schon ein flexx
Love the quality of your videos - both info-wise and graphics-wise! Thank you for your storytelling!
yet another absolute _banger_ of a video by fern!! as soon as i saw it came up n my recommended i started watching, thanks fern!
I know this is a real-life event, but why am I imagining shattering an aquarium is something that a Batman villain would do?
Or a unusually irate karen who didn't get the exact thing they wanted. they are the REAL villans.
That's odd, you generally don't "glue" acrylic I don't think, you instead use a special chemical, that "melts" the acrylic together, causing a seamless fusion of the contact spots, I know this because I once made an acrylic EMF shield in an experiment, at one point I even found out I did not get the acrylic panels in the exact dimensions for it to hold water(it was like a flat rectangular pancake of two pieces), so to block the leaks on the sides I got acrylic dust from another panel I cut, I applied the chemical and it all melted to create a seamless acrylic seal. This sort of melting of the edges is how you make aquariums specifically, because it's stronger than any glue bond, sort of like welding them together.
I visited the ddr museum shortly after this happened. Unfortunately they were directly underneath this hotel, so the runoff water damaged a portion of the museum. They were still running dehumidifiers months later.
1:15 the tree just skedaddles out of there 💀
I just feel so sad for the fishies 😢
same :( and the man thrown through the wall, and all the people evacuated. Even if no human died I'm sure it was incredibly traumatic to live through.
when I heard of the broken aquarium in the news I was so suprised. also sad how many fish died :( But after this video I know what also happened there which makes it more scary
Amazing video, Love the editing and your storytelling is perfect.
had to roll my eyes at the PETA and NABU lunatics being given any attention whatsoever during this whole ordeal.
I disagree with the killjoys at PETA! At the National Institutes of Health where I worked for 40 years, in the waiting area of the phlebotomy department there is a wonderful salt water aquarium that lends a peaceful easy feeling to patients who are about to have their blood drawn. Young children sometimes have a big issue with having their blood drawn. The beautiful fish in the tank serve to distract their minds from what is about to occur. The tank is maintained weekly by a company named "Tanks for Your Business"
If this would be FISH NEWS, this incident would have a way different perspective 😭😭😭🐡🐠🐟 fishieeesss
I’m so glad you mentioned that efforts were made to save the fish. I feel like if this had happened in the US there’d be no effort to save any of them. As someone who’s had a saltwater aquarium I can tell you that saltwater fish are very intelligent (some of them, anyway). I’m glad some survived, but I’m even more glad that efforts were made to save them. It says a lot about the rescue teams that they’d be willing to spend their time helping thankless lower life forms just for the sake of it. Not to mention those puppies are probably mad expensive.