Sea Life Centres
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Sea Life Centres are a chain of commercial sealife-themed attractions. There are twenty-six centres located in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom (England and Scotland only), and the United States. The chain is owned by Merlin Entertainments.
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[edit] Attractions
Sea Life Centres are marketed to families seeking an easy, entertaining and educational experience. They are marketed as a "friendly and authoritative guide to the last great frontier...the seas and oceans of the world and their myriad mysterious and amazing inhabitants."
Each centre combines modern glass and display technology, biological expertise and entertainment to provide themed journeys through European and tropical waters. This often provides close encounters with sealife, from shrimps and starfish to seahorses, sharks and stingrays.
Sea Life Centres also claim to champion the cause of marine conservation, through education, awareness and, wherever possible, direct action.
[edit] Seal Sanctuaries
Seal Sanctuaries operate from three centres in the United Kingdom: the National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek in Cornwall; the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary in Norfolk; and the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary at Oban.[1]
[edit] SOS campaigns
Since 2001 all Sea Life Centre conservation, rescue and campaigning work has come under the SOS scheme, an acronym for Save Our Seas.
SOS supports the work of numerous wildlife charities and campaign groups including Greenpeace, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, and the British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Each centre also has a headline campaign which change on an annual or bi-annual basis, which in the past have called for increased protection for Loggerhead Sea Turtles, and restrictions on the practice of shark-finning.
[edit] Locations
[edit] United Kingdom
England
- Sea Life London Aquarium, Central London
- National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham
- Blackpool
- Brighton
- Great Yarmouth
Scotland
- Balloch, Loch Lomond
- The Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary, Barcaldine near Oban
British Theme Park Resorts:
- Sea Life Chessington, Chessington World Of Adventures (Opened March 2008)
- 'Sharkbait Reef' by Sea Life, Alton Towers (Opened March 2009)
- Atlantis Submarine Voyage, Legoland Windsor (Opened 20th May 2011)
[edit] Germany
- Berlin
- Cuxhaven (Opened Summer 2008, previous location Dresden)
- Königswinter
- Konstanz
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Oberhausen - home of Paul, the psychic octopus who predicted the German national football team's results,[2] until his death in October 2010.
- Speyer
- Timmendorfer Strand
- Hanover
[edit] United States
Themepark location:
- Carlsbad, California at Legoland California Resort
Under construction:
- Kansas City (opening 2012)[3]
[edit] Rest of Europe
- Blankenberge, Belgium
- Bray, Ireland
- Helsinki, Finland
- Val d'Europe, Paris, France
- The Hague, The Netherlands
- Sea Life Centre, Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain
- Sea Life Centre Porto, Porto, Portugal
Themepark locations:
- Legoland Atlantis by Sea Life, Billund, Denmark
- Legoland Atlantis by Sea Life, Germany
- Gardaland Sea Life, Italy
[edit] References
- ^ "www.sealsanctuary.co.uk". sealsanctuary.co.uk. Seal Sanctuary. http://www.sealsanctuary.co.uk/. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "German 'psychic' octopus predicts victory for Spain". BBC News. 2010-07-07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ^ $15 million aquarium planned for Crown Center[dead link]
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