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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 193: Legislation, Re-Relocation, and Flood Insurance

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week, Cal talks about the dangers of indoor aquariums, duck diets, legislation, and so much more. 

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0:00.0

From mediators' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:08.1

presented by Steel.

0:10.3

Steel products are available only at Authorized Dealers.

0:13.2

For more, go to StealDealers.com.

0:16.5

Now here's your host, Ryan Calcalehan.

0:22.3

A giant 260,000 gallon aquarium exploded in Berlin last month, dumping about 1,500 fish

0:30.5

into the lobby of the Radisson Blue Hotel.

0:34.1

You Cohen Brothers Fargo fans are probably thinking, oh, not the Radisson.

0:39.2

You're darn too keen.

0:41.2

Prior to its untimely demise, the aquarium, known as the Aquedom, had been the largest

0:46.3

freestanding cylindrical aquarium in the world.

0:49.8

Miraculously, no one died as a result of the disaster.

0:53.2

The birds occurred in the early morning hours when there was minimal foot traffic and only

0:57.0

two people were injured in the falling glass.

0:59.8

The fish weren't quite so lucky.

1:02.0

In what must have been the strangest rescue effort in history, the Berlin Fire Brigade was

1:06.0

called the scoop up as many fish as they could.

1:09.0

The vast majority of the fish had died and the cold weather didn't help.

1:12.6

The aquarium had contained about 100 different species of tropical fish, which aren't known

1:17.2

for their hardiness in the cold weather.

1:19.6

One bystander described finding a dead, frozen parrotfish that had washed through the hotel

1:24.8

lobby and into the street.

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