Holiday Trip Destination: The Beauty of the world's oceans at "Churaumi Aquarium".

Monday, October 31, 2011

The Beauty of the world's oceans at "Churaumi Aquarium".

Name : Churaumi Aquarium.
Location : Okinawa, Japan.

Description : Churaumi Aquarium is part of the National Ocean Expo Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium consists of four floors, with tanks containing sea creatures, sharks, coral and tropical fish. The aquarium is set at an altitude of 19,000 m² on the ground, with a total of 77 tank contains 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the exhibition of sea water is pumped into the aquarium than 350 offshore sources, 24 hours a day. In this place has many attractions of sea creatures such as whale sharks, dolphins, tropical reef fish and much more. The main tank, called the Kuroshio Sea, accommodating 7,500 cubic meters (1.981 million USgal) of water and features an acrylic glass panels measuring 8.2 by 22.5 meters (27 by 74 feet) with a thickness of 60 cm (24 in.), the largest such panel in world when the aquarium opened. Whale sharks, manta rays are stored along with many other fish species into the main tank. The birth of the first manta ray in the aquarium in 2007. In July 2010, there has been a total of four manta ray born in an aquarium.

Fish swim like dancing

This aquarium has 80 coral species. This place jg one of the few aquariums that maintains a whale shark in captivity, and now they're trying to breed his kind.

White Shark

Acrylic glass aquarium Churaumi ever recorded in the Guinness World Records as the world's largest acrylic panel until defeated by the panel's Dubai Aquarium in width 32.88 m, height 8.3 m, 750 mm thick, and weighing 245.614 kg. In the Kuroshio Sea Aquarium kept three whale sharks. Jinta is the name of the largest whale shark, the other two male named Number 15 and Number 18.

Performing dolphins

In addition to the attractions that have to pay admission, at the Ocean Expo Park complex are other attractions that do not charge an entrance fee, including performances bottle nose dolphins and false killer whales in Okichan Theater, swimming dolphins (Dolphin Lagoon), pond turtle, manatee aquarium, and an artificial beach called Emerald coast. In the Ocean Expo Park complex also contained Maritime Museum Cultural and botanical gardens Tropical Dream Center. Visitors are both required to pay admission.