In celebration of Shark Week 2010, Discovery Channel’s office building in Silver Spring, Maryland was transformed into a giant shark.
Five inflatable pieces (head, two side fins, dorsal fin and tail) were hoisted into place by a crane and securely tied down with cables and ropes.
[photo credit: Sara R]
[photo credit: Sarah Meharg]
[photo credit: Ami Tamura]
[photo credit: Alyson Hurt]
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Senthil Balakrishnan
Great, If not discovery, nationalgeo channels these majestic creations of god will never be noticed by human kind.
Jul 20th, 2010
Arkwright
God I love sharks.
It’s a shame our only common interests are eating and stalking each other.
Jul 20th, 2010
Dwin
Senthil,
It’s obvious you are just trolling for anger by posting creationist blather on a science forum. Good luck with that.
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Jul 21st, 2010
weiming
dwin…
erm, i think hes just thanking these channels for greater awareness…why read so much into it?
Jul 21st, 2010
Julie
Shark building is awesome :D
(Since when was this a science forum?)
Jul 21st, 2010
Kirvi Inci
I think that the first commenter was just saying that without these groups, alot of us would never see such fine animals.
I also think this is brilliant marketing for Discovery. It really makes you do a double take. I wonder if this is next to a busy street or highway?
Jul 21st, 2010
mussman
Now, THERE’s a company not hurting financially!
Talk about expendable cash…
Jul 21st, 2010
satisfy25
@Mussman…I totally agree….. Great marketing tool as well….
Jul 21st, 2010
Betty
Does the shark have a tail fin??
Jul 21st, 2010
Deanna
@Kirvi Yes the Discovery building is right in the middle of downtown Silver Spring.
Jul 21st, 2010
Greg
@Dwin
If Sentil’s goal was to ‘troll’ as you put it, then aren’t you the chump who took the bait?
At any rate, it’s fun to see the sharkified HQ.
Jul 22nd, 2010
ken
You guys should sell this to the San Jose sharks when your done with it…!
Jul 23rd, 2010