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Aquarium offers shark swim
The officials the registrants are to swim with the whale sharks and thousands of other species during the remainder of 2008, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The program is aimed at keeping attendance high at the aquarium and educating visitors about the different species of fish.
"It's the only place where you are guaranteed to swim with whale sharks," aquarium spokesman Dave Santucci said. "We want to engage people with animals and help them make a connection."
However, some experts have criticized the program.
"I have numerous concerns with this," said Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University. "The first is that they have lost two of them already. And secondly, we don't know a lot about whale sharks, so this just seems risky."
Two of the aquarium's whale sharks, Ralf and Norton, died in 2007. Ralf suffered from peritonitis and Norton is believed to have been made ill by a pesticide that was used to treat his tank for parasites.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/10/2008
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06-12-2008 15:08
ms starr haas wrote:
swimming with whale sharks
not very safe but very diffrent.
06-12-2008 07:35
Larry Cravetz wrote:
Swimming with Whale Sharks
While whale sharks may have neither the toothy grin nor aggressive demeanor of their Great White cousins, I wonder how *they* feel about humans invading their tank!?!
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