The shark bridge images series#

The glycerine is looking after her very well.

In the meantime, Rosie is looking better than ever. “As soon as the City of Casey council approves it – which may be in June – we’ll start building, which will take about three months. He has been jumping through numerous planning requirements – most recently an indigenous heritage survey – in order to get approval to build a 400m2 exhibition building, which will include a specially-designed concrete slab to hold Rosie’s tank. Tom says the “most well-known shark in the world” will hopefully be moved from her outdoor tank in Crystal World’s carpark into her new digs by about October. In a massive operation, 15,000 litres of the carcinogenic formaldehyde was removed and a crane hoisted her 10-tonne tank on to a truck, which was then driven 60km to her new home.

The shark bridge images series#

Rosie became a social media sensation and hit the international headlines in 2019 after a series of YouTube videos – filmed by a subculture of trespassers known as urban explorers – went globally viral, spawning unwanted vandals and trespassers. We have people coming here taking videos of themselves with Rosie for TikTok and YouTube and uploading photos of themselves on Facebook, which has meant the momentum has continued.” “People aren’t travelling overseas and fewer are going interstate so the interest in Rosie has only grown since we got her here.

“It has been crazy since Covid, we can’t handle any more business,” says owner Tom Kapitany, adding the shark is on display free of charge. COVID-19 has been good for Rosie the Shark.Īfter being hidden away for decades in her formaldehyde-filled tank at the derelict Wildlife Wonderland Giant Earthworm Museum in Bass, Rosie is now being seen by more people than ever before.Īccording to her new owner at Crystal World in Devon Meadows – where Rosie was trucked in a mammoth operation in February 2019 – visitors can’t get enough of the five-metre-long fish.