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James D. Sachs. James D. Sachs (born 1949) is a retired United States Air Force veteran, video game artist and game programmer . Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware (first published in 1986 ). He is also the author of the Commodore 64 game Saucer Attack, which was heavily ...
April 14, 1986. Marineland of Florida (usually just called Marineland), one of Florida 's first marine mammal parks, is billed as "the world's first oceanarium ". Marineland functions as an entertainment and swim -with-the- dolphins facility, and reopened to the public on March 4, 2006 (charging the original 1938 admission price of one dollar).
Jeanne Villepreux-Power. Jeanne Villepreux-Power, born Jeanne Villepreux (24 September 1794 – 25 January 1871), was a pioneering French marine biologist, described by English biologist Richard Owen as the "Mother of Aquariophily." In 1832 she was the first person to invent and create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. [1]
The orca show was one of the Seaquarium's main attractions until 2021, when Lolita was taken off-display. The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre (15 ha) oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida located near downtown Miami. Founded in 1955, it is one of the oldest oceanariums in the United States.
A marine aquarium is an aquarium that keeps marine plants and animals in a contained environment. Marine aquaria are further subdivided by hobbyists into fish only ( FO ), fish only with live rock ( FOWLR ), and reef aquaria. Fish only tanks often showcase large or aggressive marine fish species and generally rely on mechanical and chemical ...
Sea Life Park Hawaii is a marine mammal park, bird sanctuary and aquarium [ 2 ] in Waimānalo near Makapuʻu Point, north of Hanauma Bay on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, United States. The park first opened in 1964 and was acquired in 2008 by Palace Entertainment, the U.S. subsidiary of Parques Reunidos [ 3 ] from Dolphin Discovery, which had ...
www.coralworld.com. Eilat's Coral World Underwater Observatory is a public aquarium, park and conservation center located in Eilat, Israel. It is the biggest public aquarium in Israel, and it hosts over 800 species. It was founded in 1974 and was the first of its kind. The park and aquarium is located to the south of Eilat's Coral Beach nature ...
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk is one of Connecticut's top tourist attractions. Annual attendance averages 500,000 visitors, about 100,000 of whom are from New York state. [2] The Maritime Aquarium's estimated statewide economic impact is almost $42 million; it contributes approximately $25 million to Norwalk's economy every year.