© National Aquarium, photographer George Grallīaltimore is home to more than just football and cool-looking cakes. If nothing else, that’s ultimate bragging rights. While the dive cost isn’t exactly cheap, it’s probably the only time you could ever see a whale shark this close. This dive program is the only one in the world that allows visitors to get this close to whale sharks. One of these programs puts you in the Ocean Voyager tank to actually swim among the ocean giants. ![]() If staring in awe at one of the world’s largest exhibits isn’t enough, the aquarium offers separate dive programs. Here, over 4,500 feet of viewing glass allows guests to see 6.3 million gallons of seawater, housing whale sharks, rays, and other species. Most of what visitors want to see from a “traditional†aquarium experience is simple to do.Īmong the many exhibits and experiences that the Georgia Aquarium offers includes the massive Ocean Voyager gallery. This time, it’s for their shark presentations, which is as impressive as you’d expect from them. They appear at the top of just about every list, and with good reason. The Georgia Aquarium is one of the most distinguished of our country’s aquariums. Here are five of some of the top aquariums in the country to see sharks. However, by creating an education environment surrounding sharks that is both fun and engaging, aquariums can help pull back the veil on what sharks are and are not. People love sharks, even if that love comes from a deep fear of them. That’s just science.Įven if that comparison doesn’t make sense, there’s no denying that, when visiting an aquarium, the star of the show is a dedicated shark exhibit. All opinions are my own.Going to an aquarium can often feel like going to a bakery sure, everything looks great, but where’s the donuts? And as we all know, sharks are the donuts of the aquarium world. (There’s a sweet contest going on right now actually.)ĭisclosure: I was invited to preview the Shark Bridge at a media event. Newport Aquarium is located at One Aquarium Way, Newport, KY 41071Īnd follow Newport Aquarium on facebook to stay up to date on new exhibits, contests and deals. ![]() So, now in one visit, you can watch sharks, pet sharks and walk inches above sharks! There’s so much to see in there, including chameleons and sweet little otters that I could watch all day. My kids went over at least 10 times! haha.īe sure not to miss Canyon Falls while you’re there. Or you can go over it as many times as you want, like we did. You can opt out of the bridge and watch from the side. This is a fun, family-friendly adventure that you can only get at Newport Aquarium! And it’s included in the price of admission. It moves just a little bit when you walk, making it even more scary and fun! It’s a 75-foot-long V-shaped roped suspension bridge that hangs over open waters filled with sharks, shark rays, stingrays and hundreds of fish! And it’s awesome! It’s the only rope suspension bridge in North America where you can walk inches above 2 dozen sharks! They’ll triple in size and get up to 14 feet long and over 300 pounds!Īnd you can enjoy these sharks from an extremely interesting vantage point, because Shark Bridge is now open! Experience sharks like never before. They actually have the most scalloped hammerhead sharks on exhibit in North America (and there are less than 20 places in the whole world that even have them on exhibit at all!) ![]() Every time we visit we see something that we missed the time before.Īnd they’re always adding awesome new things….like extremely rare Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks! ![]() Seriously! We’re fortunate to live so close to one of the top aquariums in the country.
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