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Article: ATTRACTIONS: NORFOLK CANYON THE MUSEUM'S LARGEST AQUARIUM SIMULATES THE OPEN WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC.(DAILY BREAK)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1996
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Byline: PAUL CLANCY STAFF WRITER
You're descending along a narrow canyon into a dark and mysterious underwater world.
Because of intense pressure that would crush a human, you could not make this journey to the depths of the ocean without traveling in a titanium-clad submersible.
Fortunately, you are. Or at least in the museum's version of one, a viewing station for the huge Norfolk Canyon aquarium.
Visitors enter through a canyonlike corridor - there's a sense of entering the murky deep as they do - to a viewing area behind a 9-inch-thick acrylic, floor-to-ceiling window at the bottom of the tank.
The interior of the ...