Te Aquarium des Lagons in New Caledonia is something special. First, there’s its location. New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France, located in a remote location in the Southwest Pacific ocean near New Zealand. Second, there are its seven aquarium caretakers, each of whom must be a biologist, a diver, a lab technician and fulfill several other criteria just to obtain their positions. Finally, there is its collection of sea creatures that will leave you breathless.
So go ahead and file this under “things you don’t see everyday.” The featured aquarium caretaker is cleaning the glass when he gets paid a visit by a leopard shark. Instead of swimming away in fear, though, the diver actually pets the shark like it were any other animal. Cue the disbelief…
