Our 255th entry in this blog is our first time visit to Singapore’s S.E.A. Aquarium in Sentosa, Central Region, Singapore.

Upon its opening in 2012, the S.E.A. (Southeast Asia) Aquarium had the distinction of being the world’s largest oceanarium and public aquarium, a title it held through 2014, until it was surpassed by Chimelong Ocean Kingdom.

At the time of its opening, the S.E.A. Aquarium was the world’s largest, by total water volume containing nearly 45,000,000 litres of water, and housing more than 100,000 individual marine, brackish, and freshwater animals belonging to over 800 species.

The aquarium is divided into ten zones with 49 habitat exhibits. The centrepiece of the aquarium is the Open Ocean exhibit, which features more than 18,000,000 L and 50,000 schooling fish, as well as rays, sharks, and other marine creatures.

The S.E.A. Aquarium had the world’s largest underwater viewing panel, at 36-metre wide and 8.3-metre tall, built to give visitors the feeling of being on the ocean floor.

There is also a conservation group called Guardians of the S.E.A.A., which supports research, education and public engagement efforts to protect the marine environment. S.E.A. Aquarium will be rebranded to Singapore Oceanarium in 2024 when expansions and construction have been completed. -wiki

The aquarium allows face-to-face interaction with Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins. It is also home to the Tasmanian giant crab, zebra turkeyfish and many different species of jellies.

The Open Ocean exhibit is a large tank, with multiple viewing panels, for thousands of individual animals, such as the giant grouper, Javanese cownose ray, leopard whipray, pickhandle barracuda and reef manta rays.

You can find a large number of exotic fishes, majestic sharks and other sea creatures spread across eight different zones in 40 distinct habitats.

I always say that I always love aquariums since I don’t know how to swim. I can never meet these lovely sea creatures if not for aquariums like this.

It is also very relaxing to stare at them, looking at how peaceful their lives are! Swimming and swimming. 🙂 Until you are eaten by the bigger ones! hehe.

The zone, Apex Predators of the Sea puts on display 100 different predators and 12 species of sharks. This zone hosts a feeding session in which an armoured diver descends into the Shark Sea and feeds the colony of deadly sharks.

Here you can explore the marine ecosystem and how the oceans and rainforests are interconnected at the Aquatic Ecosystems zone.
And that is our quick visit to Singapore’s S.E.A. Aquarium. We would love to visit again, crossing fingers! 🙂