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innovative at the time. Prior to its construction, aquariums typically had tanks with flat glass fronts for visitors to look through. Tarlton's design, with its curved acrylic tunnels underwater that visitors go through on a conveyor belt, looking all around at the underwater life in the tanks, has been influential for many aquariums overseas. The aquarium was designed to replicate a reef zone from the
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Tarlton became a professional diver in 1966. He worked on construction and also salvaged and explored many shipwrecks in New
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in 1897. In 1970 and 1975 Tarlton led expeditions to the
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