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Has anyone ever wondered why cruise ships don't have really neat centerpiece aquariums like in the restaurants, etc? It would be perfect to have a little piece of marine life on the ship since you're sailing on the ocean! Of course I don't mean gigantic animals like sharks or rays, but little fish and crabs - creatures like that.
I assume it is probably a logistic problem with being on a moving vessel or cleanliness or something.
Thoughts?
The other thing to keep in mind is that it would also be included in those wonderful health and sanitary inspections that ships get to participate in and tanks can be difficult to keep clean and can be a breeding ground for bacteria. The cleaning and maintenance would be a fair bit so probably deemed to be not worth the effort.
Its in interesting question. I could see placement of a "starfish or sea horse " tank in a nautically themed bar - like the Schooner bar on an RCL ship.
Guessing the care (maintenance) and feeding would is something they would not want to take on. Who would be stuck with fish feeding duty or tank cleaning duty?
Could imagine some drunk trying to "free the fish" sometime too. :)
Makes sense. Why is this thread resurfacing?
The class of ship no longer has aquariums. They got rid of because of it being hard to maintain. Now it’s boleros
That must have been put in with the re-fit of Adventure Of The Sea's, I was on her for 2 weeks and do not remember that. I had spent time in every bar on the ship (and that could be why I don't remember that bar).
I still think they're cool. I'm all for a cruise ship decorated with 1960's decor. Have green, orange, and yellow bean bag seats all over the place to sit on and lots of LAVA LAMPS!
I think Carnival is trying to move away from that theme
Maybe the lines are afraid the fish might drown....
Good research on finding the ship that does indeed have an aquarium. Kudos!
Wow! I had no idea. That alone makes me want to hop onto Explorer haha! So if Royal figured out the logistics, I do wonder why no one else has. It makes so much sense to me, since cruising is an ocean vacation. And if there was one or more in a dining room, I can just picture all the little kids, especially, being enthralled with it.
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