Around South East Asia: Part Nine

In which I explored the S.E.A. Aquarium

12.12.2022: Tour Day 6

I got ready and had breakfast at 8:15am. Today everyone was in the photo session mood, to create memories for we had just one day left for the tour to complete. We left the hotel around 9am and it was raining even today morning. We had our fingers crossed on not having the Genting experience now at USS. We were back to Sentosa, but this time by road. We reached the aquarium at 10am and queued up to get entry coupons and food coupons. Since USS was to open at 11am, we had an hour to spend at the aquarium.

S.E.A. Aquarium

Marine Life Park, the world's largest oceanarium, houses two attractions, the S.E.A Aquarium and the Adventure Cove Waterpark. Home to more than 100,000 marine animals of over 1,000 species, across 45 different habitats, this marine aquarium will bring you up close to sharks, jellyfish, sting rays and many other exotic marine creatures. I have taken fish details from Wikipedia. We started with the Apex Predators of the Seas, walking through the entry tunnel to view various shark species such as the blacktip reef shark, sand tiger shark, scalloped hammerhead shark, tawny nurse shark and whitetip reef shark. 

The next section is Shipwrecked! It is comprised of marine fishes such as black-blotched fantail ray, bowmouth guitarfish, snubnose pompano and zebra shark housed in a shipwreck that sinks beneath a simulated Strait of Karimata on the lower-eastern side of Sumatra. Outside of the tunnel tank is a floor tank which includes the brown banded bamboo shark and fluted giant clam. 

The next section is School of Fish: The centerpiece of this area is the Coral Garden, a cylindrical tank with an artificial coral reef and a wide variety of coral reef fish like clownfish, Napoleon wrasse and many more. There are also a couple of seahorse tanks. There is a souvenir shop in between with keychains, soft toys of the sea creatures. 

We further moved to Ocean Diversity: Allows face-to-face interaction with the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins. It is also home to the giant Pacific octopus, Tasmanian giant crab, zebra turkey fish and many different species of jellyfish. 

Next is the Open Ocean, a big home for hundreds of fish such as the giant grouper, Javanese cownose ray, leopard whipray, pick handle barracuda and reef manta rays. 

Underwater City: Most of the live corals are held in these tanks with 100 species of hard corals and 20 species of soft corals along with and many fish like the regal blue tang and giant moray.

The final gallery in the aquarium, featuring the Discovery Touch Pool, which allows visitors to touch chocolate chip sea stars, green brittle stars, star fish and black sea cucumbers.

Spending more than an hour in this sea world, I went back to the meeting point. All have already gone inside the USS except for me, Samruddhi, Kanika Thuthija and her mother Jyoti and daughter Kavya. I tried my luck to click the complete universal word with the globe but in vain. Finally, I got the ticket scanned and entered the USS. 

I know it will be a task to find the group since all must have been scattered into different rides. More on the USS in the next post.

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