TORONTO'S RIIPLEYS AQUARIUM OF CANADA FACTOIDS
worker in the shark lagoon - Toronto DIVER MAGAZINE FACTOIDS § There is a gift shop and food services in the aquarium. They are prepared to accommodate meat eaters and vegetarians § The Aquarium will be open 365-days-a-year, starting in the early fall of 2013 § The 96-metre-long (315 foot) moving walkway through an acrylic tunnel – which you will be able to step off and admire the sharks will be, according to Ripley’s, the longest indoor underwater tunnel in North America. § Ripley’s has two other aquariums – one in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the other in Gatlinburg, Tenn. § Robert Ripley was a cartoonist, an adventurer and collector. He was born in 1890 in California and died in 1949. His Believe It Or Not cartoons continue to be published. Two recent panels show a bull shark fetus with two-heads and a one-eyed shark (called Cyclops the Shark). Neither are coming to Toronto! § Ripley’s Aquarium has pledged not to have