Georgia Aquarium

This guide to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta traces the 2005 mission to bring whale sharks here for the first time, when staff and vets spent months rehearsing a move nobody had attempted: hauling young sharks thousands of miles from a Taiwanese seafood market into a downtown tank. It follows the four sharks named after bickering sitcom couples, Ralph, Norton, Alice and Trixie, and two more that arrived in 2007. You'll hear about the dive teams scrubbing a twenty-foot viewing window and the commissary crew portioning shrimp and krill for six point three million gallons of water. Listen near the glass to catch the filtration hum running behind it.