There are 71,000 pounds of salt in Manta’s fish habitats. The total weight of the water is over 2 million pounds.
The 220 square-foot viewing panel at Manta Aquarium is the largest acrylic piece ever manufactured by its maker, Nippura.
There are 8 species of rays inside the Manta Aquarium They include cownose, roughtail, shark ray, and giant guitarfish
Beluga Whale at the Wild Arctic Exhibit
The dome screen of the amazing TurtleTrek 3-D/360-degree film has 26 million individual pixels. The film is shown at 60 frames-per-second. The six minute film is 950GB, which would take you three months to download at home.
SeaWorld Orlando Exhibits Fun Facts! Photo Gallery
The TurtleTrek dome has 34 projectors. Two films run simultaneously one for your right eye and one for your left eye. Awesome!
The tunnel inside Shark Encounter is 60 feet long. The acrylic panels that guests pass under weigh 5,000 pounds.
There’s a new “egg candle aquarium” inside Shark Encounter where you can see shark eggs. When you press a button to turn on a light, you’ll see the unborn sharks inside the eggs.
SeaWorld Orlando’s rescue program has cared for and returned over 200 manatees and more than 1,200 sea turtles to the wild.
Shamu was the name of an actual orca that lived at SeaWorld San Diego. The show name has been used for over thirty years now.
A school of rays is called a “fever.”
DID YOU KNOW? Southwest Airlines has three of its Boeing 737 airplanes painted to look like Shamu.
