Sea Life Center

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Sea Life is a global brand of large commercial aquariums . The individual exhibitions are called the Sea Life Center .

History and operation

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AquaDom of Sea Life Berlin with elevator in the middle

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

Rays at Sea Life Hannover
This blue tree climber lives in the rainforest of Sea Life Hannover
Octopus oracle Paul with a soccer shoe , Sea Life Oberhausen

Sea Life Centers in Germany :

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Entrance to Sea Life Hannover

  • Entrance to Sea Life Munich

  • Entrance to Sea Life Oberhausen

United Kingdom

UK locations :

Further

Sea Life Centers in Belgium :

Octopus at SeaLife in Helsinki

in Finland :

in France :

in Ireland :

  • Bray (National Sea Life Bray)

in the Netherlands :

in Spain :

in Denmark :

in Italy

in Portugal

in Turkey :

United States

Locations in the United States of America :

Asia

Locations in Asia :

Australia & New Zealand

Locations in Australia & New Zealand :

Web links

Commons : Sea Life  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justus Randt: “Sea Life is painting its sails”, Weser-Kurier No. 233 of October 3, 2008; P. 14
  2. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visitsealife.com
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visitsealife.com
  4. ↑ Bad weather tips . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 4f.
  5. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.t-online.de