Reynolds Polymer Technology to investigate AquaDom cylinder tank fracture

[Reef Builders]

The company that manufactured and installed the giant aquarium that burst in Berlin is sending a team to investigate, to try and work out what happened. Reynolds Polymer of Grand Junction, Colorado installed the world’s biggest freestanding cylinder aquarium twenty years ago, in 2002, but the giant tank has since had work done to it…
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The company that manufactured and installed the giant aquarium that burst in Berlin is sending a team to investigate, to try and work out what happened. Reynolds Polymer of Grand Junction, Colorado installed the world’s biggest freestanding cylinder aquarium twenty years ago, in 2002, but the giant tank has since had work done to it…
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glad indeed that no one was seriously injured or lost their life.

Amazing that any of the livestock were saved/relocated.

Also surprising that some security video from the rupture has not circulated.

Never saw film of it intact, but even its ambition was amazing, let alone its execution.

Hope the lawsuits can be contained better than the water.

 

[blaxsun]

I viewed some footage immediately after the tank collapsed, but it didn't really give any indication where the failure occurred.