Orlando airport aquarium

[seabass]

Yesterday I was at the Orlando airport. They were doing maintenance on their 3000 gallon aquarium in the food court. I had the opportunity to speak with the guy on top a little bit.

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the woman scrubbing the reef insert. He said they do maintenance every Monday (it takes about 2 hours). There is a 1000 gallon sump in the level below the aquarium, and they drain 400 gallons prior to diving.

[Clown79]

Thats so cool!

Never been tonan airport with an aquarium

[squamptonbc]

Vancouver, BC has a nice aquarium in their international terminal, downside is it's only accessible if flying out of Canada, excluding the US since US flights depart from a different section.

 

 

Neat you got to talk a bit with the maintenance folks, you had good timing with planning your flight.

[StevieT]

Was their water wet?

[seabass]

They'd need 100 units to make it wet... so no.

[StevieT]

Sales call needed

 

Get out of this sub zero temps with 18" of snow already.

[seabass]

So I had a Tanked episode (from 12/9) recorded on TiVo. This week they had Bottled Ocean, Inc. do the show for them, and I noticed one of the tanks that they maintain is in the Orlando airport. That's senior aquatic specialist, Cortney Johnson, in the tank above.

[Acielot]

My favorite part of OIA. Usually its dark though because of the flight times I take.

[WRX]

Is the singing cashier still at OIA?

[seabass]

Near the aquarium was a bronze sculpture called The Traveler:

At first glance it looks like a real guy sleeping in a display box.