Thursday, April 01, 1999
Four nurse sharks arrive in Newport
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
NORFOLK, Va. — Teresa Winston was close to tears Wednesday as she said goodbye to four nurse sharks that began a 15-hour trip from the Nauticus Maritime Center here to a new home at the Oceanic Adventures Newport Aquarium.
Ms. Winston, the marine-life curator at Nauticus, watched as the rear door slammed shut on the truck that served as a shark transporter and remarked sadly, "I'm really going to miss them.”
As the sharks, ranging from 3 to 5 feet, were moved from holding tanks to transport tanks, they became agitated. A reassuring pet and a rub from Ms. Winston calmed them.
A total of five nurse sharks and seven other ocean fish are the first group of large fish to reach the $40 million facility on the Newport bank of the Ohio River.
One of the nurse sharks and all of the other fish came from the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
Newport aquarium senior aquatic biologist Linda Hanna had the arduous task of driving the big truck, with three large portable tanks holding more than 1,000 gallons of water, more than 700 miles from Norfolk, arriving at the Newport aquarium in the wee hours today.
“We want to make the trip as quickly as possible, but we also need to stop occasionally to check the fish and test the water,” she said just before leaving Norfolk.
A young nurse shark and the seven other fish were taken from a 4,000-gallon tank at the museum and carried in large nets to the waiting tanks in the truck. The entire operation took less than two hours.
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The aquarium is to open in early May.
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