The Berlin AquaDom is an attraction for tourists. The huge tank houses hundreds of fish and is located in the middle of a hotel complex. For reasons that are still unclear, the aquarium is damaged, the leaked water even runs onto the adjacent street.
The fire brigade is on duty because of a damaged large aquarium near the Berlin Cathedral. “The aquarium is damaged, water is leaking. The situation is currently not clear,” tweeted the Berlin fire department. “We are deployed with 100 emergency services at the Hotel Dom Aquaree.” There are large-scale barriers around the Berlin hotel.
One of the hotel guests tweeted a video of the destroyed water column. “The fish tank at my hotel exploded in the middle of the night,” he wrote. According to the operator’s website, around 1,500 exotic fish are said to have been in the aquarium.
The Berlin traffic information center tweeted that Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, where the hotel with the aquarium is located, was closed. “There is a lot of water on the road. So far, the cause is still unclear.” The place is very close to the Alexanderplatz in Berlin with the TV Tower. A spokesman for the fire brigade said it was checking whether people were injured. The aquarium had burst for an initially unknown reason. Water ran onto Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse. It must also be checked whether the underground car park is affected.
In the building complex called DomAquarée there is, among other things, the large aquarium Sea Life and the so-called AquaDom. As stated on the DomAquarée website, the AquaDom is the “largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world” and was extensively modernized by summer 2020.
