Santa Claus put on his wetsuit this Friday to take a dip among sharks and brighten the day of the little ones at the Rio de Janeiro aquarium, the largest in South America, on the eve of Christmas.
Santa Claus’s visit to the aquarium has become a Christmas tradition for several years in the tourist capital of Fluminense, which experiences the holidays at the beginning of the southern summer.
Without removing his red suit, Santa Claus put on his fins, oxygen cylinder and diving goggles to feed and even caress the sharks and other species found in one of the tanks at the facility.
“Diving like Santa Claus is incredible. You see the shine in the eyes of children who are not used to seeing a diving Santa Claus in contact with animals, feeding them,” said Felipe Luna, who has been playing the popular Christmas character for seven years. who did not lack a thick white beard.
He explained that before the activity they do “training work” with the sharks to gain their trust.
“It’s not the monster they show us in the movies,” he guarantees.
With 26,000 square meters of surface and 4.5 million liters of water, the Rio de Janeiro marine aquarium is the largest in South America and contains specimens of 360 species from Brazil and the rest of the world.
