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January 18, 2006

Diving with sharks… in an aquarium!

Thanks to Emilie, we had our first (for most of us) try at diving. And WaoW!!! What a dive!!!

We went diving in the main tank of the Blue Zoo at GongTi (工体), the Worker’s Stadium. Altogether, we were twelve people: 3 experienced Rescue Divers, 1 Open Water Level 1 Diver and the rest of us total neophytes! The central tank - holding 3.5 million liters of artificially produced salt water and thousands of fishes - is big enough to have 3 of us diving together with a few instructors.

Diving in an aquarium might seem artificial and boring compared to diving in open water. However, with all the fishes it was an amazing experience! There were murenes, leopard sharks, Napoleon Fishes, even a Tiger Shark!!! And a Little Mermaid!!!

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6 Responses to “Diving with sharks… in an aquarium!”

  1. Thierry Says:

    I heard that the Blue Zoo of Beijing is the only one to have a living LaoWai in its aquarium. The one on the left is a French Species, a ‘Poisson Ventouse’, a ‘Suction Fish’. They used it to clean the 110 meters walking tunnel… ;-)

  2. JayJay Says:

    YEah… I don’t know if you succeeded in the job interview for the mermaid :)

  3. Thierry Says:

    She was swimming to fast… :-(

  4. JayJay Says:

    no but you wanted to take her job right? You have too much beard man! Mermaids don’t have beard! And memaids don’t drink beer either :)

  5. Thierry Says:

    Hey! I would not be so sure about that… I saw one at Beer Mania the other day…

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