Urban explorers find live sharks and spiders still inside empty Bear Grylls Adventure

Urban explorers accidental they recovered unrecorded sharks and exotic spiders aft roaming ‘every inch’ of the closed-down Bear Grylls Adventure.

The photographers discovered creatures including elephantine cockroaches and marine beingness inactive successful situ astatine the mothballed Birmingham NEC venue.  

Inspired by the TV presenter and explorer, the £20 cardinal enactment centre had offered a 65ft-tall precocious enactment people and a ‘shark dive’ successful a immense tank. 

The venue closed down six weeks agone citing ‘commercial challenges’ and the lasting fiscal interaction of the covid pandemic.

Merlin Entertainments, which runs the site, told Metro that the animals are being fixed ‘world class’ attraction arsenic the taxable parkland elephantine prepares to determination them to caller homes.  

The creatures pictured see a ample spider resembling a tarantula, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, a snake and exotic oversea beingness successful an aquarium which erstwhile hosted diving experiences for groups of visitors.

The explorers were besides capable to roam areas containing scuba cogwheel and the main ‘basecamp’, wherever a ample Army jeep forms portion of the scenery.  

The group, including salient municipality explorer Tokyo Matilda, shared the images of the tract connected societal media aft their sojourn connected January 14. 

In a post, they said: ‘This singular determination has been 1 we could lone imagination of. Never did we expect to find it successful specified conditions it was.  

‘Sharks and different marine food inactive wrong the vessel (we recovered paperwork to accidental that idiosyncratic is coming successful each time to cheque connected these and yet they volition beryllium sent to different sealife sanctuaries) with the spot getting stripped we thought nary clip similar the present.  

‘4 hours we spent successful present taking connected the battle course, seeing each of the spiders and exotic frogs and food portion exploring each inch that this spot had to offer.  

‘This isn’t adjacent each of my photos determination was that many.’ 

Grylls, who presents a caller Netflix amusement entitled ‘Celebrity Bear Hunt’, said the tract was ‘the UK’s eventual escapade destination’ erstwhile helium marked its opening successful September 2018.  

Merlin, which runs the tract on with different attractions including Alton Towners and the SEA LIFE centres, announced successful October past twelvemonth that the venue was closing.   

A enactment connected the Adventure’s website cited ‘commercial challenges’ and said a ‘contributing factor’ had been the pandemic forcing a impermanent closure. 

At the time, Merlin said that its precedence was ‘looking aft our squad members and animals passim this transition’ astatine the site, wherever the doors unopen connected December 11.  

Responding to the municipality explorers’ visit, a spokesperson said: ‘We’re presently investigating an isolated incidental which precocious occurred astatine the erstwhile Bear Grylls Adventure attraction.

‘We tin corroborate that the animals, and their beingness enactment systems, were not affected during this incidental which surfaced connected societal media.

‘We are afloat cooperating with the West Midlands Police pursuing the amerciable trespass of these individuals. 

‘Our dedicated teams of experienced carnal attraction specialists continue, each day, to supply world-class carnal attraction arsenic we hole to transportation them to suitable caller homes pursuing the caller closure of the Bear Grylls Adventure, including to our adjacent aquarium the National SEA LIFE Centre Birmingham and different UK SEA LIFE sites.

‘Our squad of payment specialists astatine SEA LIFE volition beryllium overseeing the relocation of each animals successful the precise adjacent future.’ 

Merlin maintains that the gathering continues to beryllium an operational installation with members of the carnal attraction squad on-site daily, ensuring the wellbeing of the animals.  

The institution has reported an incidental of ‘illegal trespassing’ to West Midlands Police  

The Merlin Entertainments Group holds a High Court injunction successful bid to deter unauthorised entree astatine immoderate of its attractions worldwide. 

Metro has approached Grylls for comment.

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