Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre
Thousands of fish, invertebrates, and marine plant life are at home here in 87 tonnes of seawater contained in 17 massive aquarium habitats. The Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre offers visitors a chance to see the amazing diversity of the Georgia Basin, an inland sea known as the Salish Sea, from the giant Pacific octopus to microscopic plankton. Here they’ll find wolf-eels lurking in caverns, anemones, sea stars, sea cucumbers, and colourful rockfish.
The 930 square metre (10,000 square foot) intricate aquarium is home to many local marine species including the giant Pacific octopus, microscopic plankton, wolf-eels lurking in caverns, anemones, sea stars, sea cucumbers, colourful rockfish, plus many other species. The Centre’s unique design is a bridge from ‘seafloor to seashore’ inviting visitors to observe the many species as they are in their natural habitat.
The Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre is located in Sidney on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in the heart of the Salish Sea.
The Centre in the News
Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre opens
Only a couple more days until everyone is invited to check out the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre. Staff have been enjoying all the new additions to the habitats as they’ve come along. Each week it is like we are greeting a new addition to the family, complete with oohs and aahs from the staff. First it was the intertidal creatures, like anemones, sea stars and crabs.
Artquarium
Aquarium or Art Gallery?
