GA aquarium swim with the whale sharks & behind the scen

[Anonymous]

I meant to post this here last week, but posted in the sump instead, and well, it got sumpified so here goes in the right spot

Wife did the swim in the big tank thing at the atlanta aquarium, her birthday present

I got a behind the scenes tour while they cleaned up, they have some really cool stuff

CNN was there filming for the 2 new hammerheads, and 2 of them did the swim with my wife, they will be showing the footage at the airport terminals not sure when

back room for the big reef tank

we had the place to ourselves, everyone else was gone, the swimmers were right above the hammerhead in this picture

this vid shows how close the whale sharks and manta ray were getting to them

http://mrblah.smugmug.com/gallery/70938 ... BCchU-A-LB

 

[blackcloudmedia]

Sigh I soooo wanted to do the behind the scenes tour but it would have been like 200 bucks for the four of us. I have the vid though. Gives me ideas for a new setup :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

I got the tour for free, they do it to occupy the people waiting for the swimmers I think

there were just 4 of us, me and the 2 kids, and another teenager waiting for her mom, we had 3 of the volunteers escort us around back there, so it was up close and personal

 

[Ben1]

Wow awesome must some something you remember forever swimming with a whale shark! The reeftank backroom looks cool to, I started picturing how much all that plumbing alone must have cost.