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Rosco Lights up the Giants of the Sea
Rosco has provided X24 X-Effects Projectors to give a shimmering and realistic watery effect to a new Aquarium in the German city of Stralsund, with 39 tanks, which are home to rare coral fish and other marine life from around the world.
Inside the Giants of the Sea exhibition, a series of rooms with 20m high ceilings, there are full scale models of a 26m long blue whale, a 16m humpback whale accompanied by a baby 5m humpback whale as well as a 10m sword whale. Most spectacularly however, is a battle between a 15m sperm whale and a giant squid. The X24 projector gives large scale ripple effects, to help create the sense of habitat.
The German Engineering Agency - Walter Bamburger had seen the X24 in use in the Deutches Meeresmuseum, and specified 10 Analogue X24 Projectors for the Giants of the Sea Exhibition.
The Giants of the Sea project was organised in collaboration with Greenpeace in support of their anti-whaling campaign. They are the official partner of the project and even donated 1.45 million Euros to the exhibition. A key theme of the new Ozeaneum is raising awareness about climate change, over-fishing and water polluting in order to demonstrate the threats that endanger the marine life they showcase.
The ‘Ozeaneum Stralsund' was opened, after three years of construction work, by German chancellor Angela Merkel. The building itself is a modern extension of the existing Oceanography Museum on the north-east German coast, which is the biggest museum of natural science in north Germany.
21st January 2009
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