Swim Or Scuba Dive With Whale Sharks Georgia Aquarium Atlanta, GA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ย. 2014
- The Georgia Aquarium is a place where you can swim with Whale Sharks. Whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean. Some up to 40 feet long. And you can go swimming and or scuba diving with these gentle giants. Check out this story from Florida-TV and see the fun your missing.
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Don’t really understand the angry comments over them storing whale sharks, the aquarium bought them from a kill quota in Asia...meaning if they didn’t take them in and try to care for them, they’d just be on someone’s dinner plate
icemanowns1 I agree
Many people don't realise how endangered some of the species they keep at this aquarium actually are. Sure, it's best if these animals could just be left alone out in the wild but the sad reality is they aren't safe there. At the aquarium in Okinawa they are hoping to breed whale sharks f.ex not just to study their reproductive behaviour (which we know very little about) but also for the sake of preservation. If we can successfully breed endangered animals in captivity that at least gives us a chance at preventing them from going extinct.
F.ex the Georgia Aquarium keeps the bowmouth guitarfish, a species of shark ray, which is currently listed as critically endangered in most of its natural habitats. The Georgia Aquarium is one of the few aquariums that are trying to breed them. It's not just to give people something to gawk at, it's to save the species from extinction.
Why can't sea world make their tanks like these, so much more like the real thing
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Agreed
EDIT: one hole in the glass game over
Elizabeth Reynolds because seaworld are idiots
because they want a big parking lot
It's a tank of nice fish and whales and baluga. 😄
It's fun to play patty cake with people behind glass? Lol it's always fun to jump into the water and sing.
Nice
Wow a whale shark nice a great white had to many complications and had to be released at Monterey.
Glad you got to go
Can you bring like a go pro or some sort to video your experience under the water?
Makes you think if enough people did this maybe there would be more compassion towards swa creatures and how we treat our oceans.
Krimson 😀
Ayyy I was there yesterday
Glad you got to check it out. A neat place!
would be a long line wait for everyone in America to swim this tank.
Would scuba diving in this aquarium make my lungs explode?
No
How much does it cost?
I wonder if the breed the Whale Sharks and Mantas
I went last year in February. I actually asked the volunteers who constantly train and study the marine life at the aquarium. I asked that same question, they told me that as for the whale sharks. They did not view any behavior that they are mating yet but they hope they will. The mantas have possible mated and have had offspring. Unfortunately the marine life within the tank have eaten the mantas offspring and any other animal that mated and produced.
This sounds more like a commercial than a report. How long do the whale sharks really live in captivity?
We don't know because we haven't had them in aquariums for long enough.
It's probably worth mentioning that Georgia Aquarium is non profit and these creatures would have been eaten as part of the fishing quota had they not been purchased by the aquarium.
David van der Meiden No commercial. Did not get paid for the report. It does not work like that in commercial television.
David van der Meiden The answer comes from figuring out how long Destiny the Whale Shark in Finding Dory was at a Fish Hospital for.
These sharks usually migrate across open ocean. They're also an endangered species now and have very short lifespans in captivity. Please support responsible eco-tours that allow you to see these animals in the wild instead :)! It not only keeps them wild but also contributes to the economy of many small islands whose only other source of income would be shark finning and fishing.
you know this aqurium rescued the sharks from fishermen right?
these endangerd speces would be sea food if they wern't rescued.
and they spent most of their life in the aqurium so they cant be released into the wild.
@@SK-sq5bk So instead of releasing them after rescue, so they could continue to contribute to wild populations, they flew them across the world to profit off of...? I've been to Taiji, Japan and heard aquariums purchasing dolphins from the hunts make the same "rescue" claim. Please don't buy into the greenwashing.
@@nataliekparra they do contrubute to the populations in the wild.
they had to rescue them since they were injurd so they had to treat them. they have been in captivity for so long they cant be released into the wild.
also they have only ever had 2 wild caught crustations. evrything else in the aqurium is eather captive breed or wild caught
@@nataliekparra they also take good care of them if you look at the behind the scenes.these sharks cant be released into the wild. so what do you want them to do? also a good chuck of their profit goes to caring for the whale sharks.
@@SK-sq5bk No...they have had more than two. Are you thinking of the two who died within 5 months of each other after being brought from Taiwan? Those were already replaced. More info: www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-shark14jun14-story.html
why Georgia? why not california
Carmata because Georgia is better
Rich Renwick because Georgia can do amazing things plus California has too many attractions
Why not?
Those fish I think they can’t live in a Hot dessert so that is why is not in California.
California sucks!
not true the megaloman
Horror life for the Poor Sharks!!!!
:-((((
Karla Kolumna Georgia Aquarium knows what they’re doing, Whale Sharks are their mean feature, they even like having humans by their side.
they were rescued sharks and the trank is 6.3 million gallons and is set up very naturally. they have a good life
plus they have free food, medical care and the tanks are maintained well
Karla Kolumna all these sharks would have been consumed as food had the Georgia aquarium not intervened
These beautiful sea creatures should be in the sea, not a tank!
Natalie Roach-khan The sharks are well kept and are in huge tanks. Chill out.
@@runtothehills3371 These sharks usually migrate across open ocean. They're also an endangered species now and have very short lifespans in captivity.
@@nataliekparra they are resued from fishermen so they cant go back in the ocean.
@@SK-sq5bk I suggest you look more into that claim.
@@nataliekparra its true they were rescued
and lived in captivity for a wile. like no one is going to feed them in the wild, and they cant catch food because they have been feed there whole life
its liev a dog getting released in the wild
Oh, what a huge prison to torture animals. Congrats.
Shut up
Xe Vi Lop Animals do not get abused at zoos and aquariums, they get looked after and stay safe from extinction.
they were rescued sharks and the trank is 6.3 million gallons and is set up very naturally. they have a good life
plus they have free food, medical care and the tanks are maintained well
Xevi Chase YOU CALL THAT A PRISON?! THEY WOULD HAVE GOT EATEN BY THE LOCALS IN TAIWAN HAD THE AQUARIUM INOT INVOLVED