Sevilla Aquarium
Themed marine journey retracing a doomed round-the-world voyage, ending in a nine-metre shark tunnel.
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This guide to the Sevilla Aquarium traces the 1519 voyage that left this stretch of the Guadalquivir with roughly two hundred fifty men aboard five ships under Ferdinand Magellan, and follows the tank-by-tank route the aquarium built to retrace it, from the Atlantic to the Amazon's mouth to the Indo-Pacific reefs. You'll hear how Magellan never made it home and who ultimately brought a battered ship back up this river three years later. It ends where the sharks glide, nine metres down.
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