 The Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest aquarium, delivers on its promises of wonder and excitement at every corner. The Aquarium is home to more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species. There are eight million gallons of fresh and marine water with five galleries depicting different habitats environments:
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The Georgia Explorer exhibit, geared especially towards children, features a number of interactive touch tanks with rays and sharks as well as exhibits featuring sea turtles and the wildlife of Gray's Reef - a National Marine Sanctuary off the Georgia Coast.
- River Scout, also reflecting regional environments, features an overhead “river” where visitors can see North American fish from the bottom up. This exhibit displays piranha, electric fish, and other unusual freshwater life.
- Cold Water Quest, features animals from the polar regions of the world and contains most of the mammals in the Georgia Aquarium's collection. This exhibit includes Beluga Whales, California sea lions, Japanese spider crabs, and African black-footed penguins.
- The Ocean Voyager exhibit includes the vast majority of the aquarium's water and 100,000 fish. This exhibit features the aquatic life of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, and showcases the aquarium's Whale Sharks, the largest fish on the planet. You can see schools of predatory trevally jacks, squadrons of small and large stingrays, enormous goliath grouper and hammerhead sharks plying the waters of this ocean habitat. Lots of viewing windows, a 100-foot-long underwater viewing tunnel and the second largest viewing window in the world give visitors great opportunities to view all of these magnificent animals.
- The Tropical Diver exhibit takes an artistic turn with many curious and haunting forms of aquatic life plunging you into a one-of-a-kind aquatic experience. At the center of this gallery is one of the largest living reef exhibits of any aquarium in the world. Living corals and thousands of colorful reef fish are presented in a faithful recreation of a tropical Pacific coral reef, complete with an overhead crashing wave.
- Join Deepo, an orange garibaldi fish and the Aquarium’s mascot, as he takes the audience on an undersea adventure in the 4D Theater. Using interactive seats and unique special effects built into the theater itself, these “4D” special effects are synchronized to the film production adding another layer of fun for audiences. As a jellyfish swims by in 3D, the audience also “feels” its tingling tentacles brush along their arms, creating a more thrilling experience.
With so much to see and do at the Aquarium, you’ll want to come back again and again.
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