Meet rosie, the two tonne, 5 meter great white shark that was stumbled across by a youtuber
when he explored an abandoned wildlife park.
She’s taxedermied and her home was a huge leaky tank filled with formaldehyde.
Rosie has captured the hearts of people across the world.
Who knew so many people would fall in love with a big stuffed shark.
But they did, and I’m going to tell you her story, right now on IO.
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Rosie the shark back in 1998 after she was caught in a tuna fishing net in south Australia.
Initially She was on display at the Victorian Ecocenter.
She moved around for a while and then was placed at the Wildlife wonderland park in
Bass, which is south of Melbourne Australia.
Kept in a tank filled with a preservative known as formaldehyde, she called Wildlife
wonderland park her home for 20 years.
Luke Mcpherson uploaded a video of rosie the great white shark to youtube in November of
2018.
Luke had been a visitor of the wildlife park when he was young, Luke visited the park again
in late 2018 but he never thought that he would come across a huge taxidermy shark in
a tank.
Rosie was completely preserved.
One has to wonder why the shark was left there.
The green formaldehyde that was leaking out of rosies tank is extremely toxic.
Apparently the fumes from rosie’s leaky tank were so strong that luke could only be
in the room for a minute.
The video he uploaded to youtube has 11 million views at the time of this recording.
And for good reason, how crazy was that thumbnail.
She looks like a ghost shark, the photo looks like a scene from apocalypse.
Something about rosie in this tank makes me feel like our oceans are going to look like
that sometime in the next few hundred years if we don’t do something about it.
But anyway, I’m not going to bore you with my environmental concerns, lets get back on
topic.
Social media absolutely exploded when images of rosie started to go viral.
Some People were demanding that something be done because she shouldn’t have been
abandoned the way she was.
A facebook page was started called Save Rosie The Shark that quickly garnered over 4000
followers.
Its amazing that so many people rallied for a shark, but hey, that’s the power of the
internet.
But the main reason why rosie caught the publics interest was because there were a lot of people
who were trying to break into the abandoned wildlife park.
And these people weren’t just for a lovely stroll.
Unfortunately, some even took it upon themselves to vandalize and destroy rosies tank.
Vandals took the top off the tank, releasing the formaldehyde even further.
Which is super dangerous.
They threw trash in her tank as well as a broken television.
This is why we can’t have nice things!
It got to the point where Local police were sending out
warnings to people to stay away from the park.
According to Ripleys Believe it or not, if no one preserved the shark, more liquid will
evaporate, her condition will worsten ands he will most likely be destroyed.
Because of the evaporating liquid that escaped out of the top of the tank, rosie was no longer
fully submerged in the formaldehyde.
Thankfully, enough people were concerned about the shark’s well being that rosie has found
a new home.
Crystal world and prehistoric journeys in Meadows promsed to restore rosies tank, and
do their best to restore rosie.
She will be on display at the devon meadows site at crystal world, so everyone can go
and see her.
Anyways friends, that is all I have for you on that, I’m gonna wrap up this video by
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