Sea Life Center
Sea Life is a global brand of large commercial aquariums . The individual exhibitions are called the Sea Life Center .
History and operation
The facilities were previously owned by the UK Vardon Attractions Ltd. Since 1999 you have belonged to the Merlin Entertainments Group, which was founded by the company's own managers when the company was taken over . In addition to the aquariums, it also operates other attractions such as museums and amusement parks and employs around 13,000 people in the main season.
Sea Life continuously invests in new locations. This began in the 1990s with the renovation of the historic aquarium in Brighton (with the elimination of the dolphins). The locations are designed for a term of 10 to 15 years. After that, technically obsolete or less profitable assets to be sold again in England for. B. in Hunstanton , Southend-on-Sea , Weston-super-Mare , Rhyl and even the parent company in Oban (Scotland) .
In May 2009 an offshoot of the Sea Life Center was opened within Legoland Germany. It is a seawater aquarium with a tunnel tube. This aquarium is part of the attractions. It is run under the name Legoland Atlantis by SeaLife .
Locations
Europe
There are 32 Sea Life Centers across Europe. (As of July 2017)
Germany
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Sea Life Centers in Germany :
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Berlin AquaDom
Around 4,000 aquatic animals are shown in the Sea Life Center and AquaDom. The AquaDom is 16 m high and holds 1 million liters of water. - Cuxhaven mobile aquarium, was in Dresden until 2008 - opening in June 2008; in October the end was announced. A new location for the mobile aquarium is not yet known.
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Hanover - since February 24, 2007 the
first almost complete tropical center, built in the former rainforest house in the Berggarten . The rainforest has been preserved. The deep sea basin holds 300,000 liters of water. Special exhibition: "Octopus Garden" (2013). The large ocean basin with sharks and sea turtles is 4 m deep and can be observed by visitors through an 8 m long acrylic glass tunnel.
Two Cuban crocodiles from the Sea Life Center in Speyer have been on display since 2012 . This makes Hanover the second Sea Life Center in Germany that keeps Cuban crocodiles. A croc walk serves as a glass bridge over the crocodile pool. -
Konstanz
The Konstanz Sea Life Center shows the underwater world of the Rhine and Lake Constance. The underwater journey leads from the source of the Rhine in the Alps and follows its course over Lake Constance and Rotterdam to the North Sea. An eight meter long acrylic tunnel leads through the middle of the 320,000 liter Red Sea basin. Black tip reef sharks and two green sea turtles swim overhead. Ten gentoo penguins are also shown. -
Sea Life Koenigswinter
The Koenigswinterer Sea Life Center, located near Bonn, has fairy tales and legends on its subject, and life in the Rhine is also shown. -
Speyer
The Sea Life Speyer shows visitors the underwater world of the Rhine from its source in the Alps to its mouth in the North Sea. Visitors are offered a tour of the underwater world, which ends in the 320 cubic meter ocean basin. An 8 m long acrylic glass tunnel leads through the 5 m deep ocean basin.
- Since 2011, Sea-Life in Speyer has been showing Cuban crocodiles in an expanded facility .
Between the port area, the shipwreck and the shop, there is also an SOS information room with information on various SOS campaigns by the Sea Life Aquariums.
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Timmendorfer Strand
The Sea Life Center shows the habitats of the waters in Schleswig-Holstein from the brooks to the North and Baltic Seas, as well as a large tropical ocean basin. -
Sea Life Munich - since April 6, 2006
In the Sea Life Center in Munich, life in the Isar and Danube as far as the Black Sea and Mediterranean is presented. -
Oberhausen
In Oberhausen, life in the Atlantic with over 20,000 animals is represented in over 100 species. Tropical lagoon with sharks. Several species of shark and two sea turtles live in the large pool, under which a viewing tunnel also runs. The Sea Life Center Oberhausen received a lot of attention during the soccer world championship 2010 from the octopus Paul , who as an oracle correctly predicted the outcome of the games of the German national team and the final. There is a memorial for the (now deceased) octopus at the end of the passage. In 2012 there is a special exhibition with crabs, crabs and lobsters. In addition to pools with corresponding specimens, there are also large information boards with a lot of information (strange for the layman). - In Legoland Germany near Günzburg
United Kingdom
UK locations :
- Birmingham (National Sea Life Birmingham)
- Blackpool (Sea Life Blackpool)
- Brighton (Sea Life Brighton)
- Great Yarmouth (Sea Life Great Yarmouth)
- Scarborough (Scarborough Sea Life & Marine Sanctuary)
- Weymouth (Weymouth Sea Life Park & Marine Sanctuary)
- Loch Lomond (Scotland) (Sea Life Loch Lomond)
- Chessington in the amusement park 'Chessington World Of Adventures' (formerly Nuremberg) - opening 2008
- London (Sea Life London Aquarium)
- Alton at the Alton Towers Resort
- Gweek (Cornish Sea Life Rescue Station)
- Oban (Scottish Sea Life Rescue Station)
- Hunstanton (Sea Life Rescue Station)
- Manchester - Opening Spring 2013
Further
Sea Life Centers in Belgium :
in Finland :
- Helsinki next to the Linnanmäki amusement park
in France :
- Paris (Aquarium Sea Life Paris) - Val d'Europe , near Disneyland Paris
in Ireland :
- Bray (National Sea Life Bray)
in the Netherlands :
- Scheveningen (Sea Life Scheveningen)
in Spain :
- Benalmádena (Sea Life Benalmádena)
in Denmark :
- in Legoland Billund
in Italy
- in Gardaland
- in Lido di Jesolo
- in Rome - opening 2017
in Portugal
- Sea Life Porto - opening June 2009
in Turkey :
- in Istanbul
United States
Locations in the United States of America :
- in Carlsbad integrated into Legoland California - opening 2008
- in Bloomington (Minnesota) integrated into the Mall of America
- in Kansas City (Missouri)
- in Grapevine, Texas integrated into the Grapevine Mills Mall
- in Tempe (Arizona) integrated into the Arizona Mills Mall
- in Orlando, Florida on International Drive
- in Auburn Hills
Asia
Locations in Asia :
- in Nagoya , Japan
- in Busan , South Korea
- in Bangkok , Thailand
- in Shenyang , China
- in Iskandar Puteri , Malaysia
Australia & New Zealand
Locations in Australia & New Zealand :
- the Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium in Auckland , New Zealand
- in Sydney , Australia
- in Melbourne , Australia
- in Sunshine Coast , Australia
- in Manly , Australia
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Justus Randt: “Sea Life is painting its sails”, Weser-Kurier No. 233 of October 3, 2008; P. 14
- ↑ Special 2013 Octopus Garden SeaLife Hannover - Sea-Life.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 26, 2013 ; Retrieved December 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Return of the reptiles: Cuban crocodiles in Sea Life Hannover - Sea-Life.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 26, 2013 ; Retrieved December 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bad weather tips . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 4f.
- ↑ Rare Cuba crocodiles now live in the Speyer Sea Life - T-Online. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 24, 2014 ; Retrieved October 6, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.