Good morning, everyone. I am back from my trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, with new insights into the challenges posed by Russias expansion of its dolphinarium industry. I have a lot of catching up to do, but I will post some more thoughts on this as soon as I have a moment (hopefully by the end of this week). Meanwhile, here are a few photos of the St. Petersburg dolphinarium - and if it looks like an Olympic swimming/diving pool facility to you, it should, because thats precisely what it is. When the Moscow Olympics were over in 1980, this facility was standing more or less idle, so it was turned into a dolphinarium - Olympic logos, swimming lanes, diving boards and all. This is considered one of the best dolphinariums in the country :-/. It is dark, noisy, and the infrastructure is slowly deteriorating, because of course it was never meant to hold saltwater mammals.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:31:03 +0000
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