DRAPER — While many kids enjoy staring at the sharks swimming gracefully through the tanks at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, do the sharks enjoy it as well?
Some BYU researchers set out to find an answer to that question by studying how much the noise of the aquarium affects the aquatic inhabitants.
Around 1 million people visit the Draper aquarium each year, and with many of those attendees being young children, noise is sure to occur during visits. Facility managers make efforts to control visitor noise, but have not been able to accurately measure how much sound passes through the glass and water…