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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Nice Shark...Good Shark...

In honor of Discovery Channel's Shark Week (Starting Sunday, August 1), the Discovery Communications Headquarters in Silver Spring brought out their giant inflatable shark. It's been out since mid-July, but last week was the first  time I got to get a look at it this year.

...Gonna Need a Bigger Building #1

...Gonna Need A Bigger Building #3

Apparently, a lot of cold air has to get pumped into the shark to keep it "afloat", and it took close to 7 miles of fabric in order to create him (Source: DTSS). He's very much a sight to see, though I wonder how well those working in offices where the shark is "swimming" work with him...

(They're) gonna need a bigger building... ;)

2 comments:

kayni said...

i haven't seen this one yet although i've passed through silver spring quite a few times. good to know.

nice home you got here :)

A. Random Hapa said...

Thank you, Kayni! (just need to blog a bit more often on this one)!

As soon as shark week was over, it was taken down, but Discovery seems to do this every summer.