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North Sea Museum
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:59 pm
by Ned Flanders
Just read on CNN that the North Sea Museum in Copenhagen had a fire causing catastrophic damage to the 1 million gallon aquarium and killing off several of it's inhabitants. You can read a blurb
here
That's pretty sad news but the story doesn't mention anything on the source of the fire. I know we've got quite a few members from Denmark so maybe they could fill us in on a few more details especially if any of you have visited the museum before. It sounds like it was quite an impressive 'aquarium'.
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:08 pm
by Xandax
Only thing I've seen - mostly speculations currently - is that the cafeteria just had gotten its floors given a coat of lacquer(sp?), and that it is likely some rags with lacquer on it that have caught fire from some spark.
It doesn't seem to be a deliberate started fire.
Nobody knows - currently - how many fish will survive, but many of the rare ones are lost.
It is also belived to be a major blow to the entiere tourisme for that area (North Jutland) and Denmark, due to the popularity of the location.
Edit: typos
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:32 pm
by Curdis
Skeptic
A fire in an aquarium......?!
Didn't they have sprinklers?
Curdis - Hip hop hurray
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:26 am
by Xandax
Re: Skeptic
Originally posted by Curdis
A fire in an aquarium......?!
Didn't they have sprinklers?
Curdis - Hip hop hurray
Nope - they didn't. It wasn't requiered by law, so they had not installed them. Dunno why, though.
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:06 am
by Vicsun
Re: Re: Skeptic
Originally posted by Xandax
Dunno why, though.
Because the likelihood of a fire in an aquarium is one to a million!
O, wait...
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:21 am
by KoreeGahn
Just so you know it.. The North Sea Museum is in a town called Hirtshals!!
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:43 am
by Xandax
Originally posted by KoreeGahn
Just so you know it.. The North Sea Museum is in a town called Hirtshals!!
I know
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:22 am
by Rob-hin
I don't get it...
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:37 am
by Xandax
Originally posted by Rob-hin
I don't get it...
Get what?
That the museum burned down? That it was an aquarium? That it is located on North Jutland in Denmark, in a town called Hirtshals?
Not much else to get in this thread
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:04 pm
by Rob-hin
Why would Hirtshals be funny?
Because it was written with '!!'.
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:21 pm
by Xandax
Originally posted by Rob-hin
Why would Hirtshals be funny?
Because it was written with '!!'.
proberly cause I made a typoish error in my ealier post saying it was in North Sealand, when infact it was in North Jutland - completely differnet parts of Denmark.
Or because the first post mentions it is in Copenhagen
Otherwise I don't think there was fun involved
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:07 am
by Tom
Originally posted by Xandax
proberly cause I made a typoish error in my ealier post saying it was in North Sealand, when infact it was in North Jutland - completely differnet parts of Denmark.
Jutland is not really part of Denmark proper anyway.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:43 am
by Bloodmist