Cetacean Exhibits?

[Fin.Dutch]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any Cetacean pools that were more than just concrete and glass?
I know that the Georgia Aquarium has some interesting rockwork in the Beluga exhibit, and the Shedd Aquarium does as well (though I think it's mostly above the water?). As far as I'm aware there's no Dolphin/Orca pool with artificial waves or anything of that nature.

If anyone could help me out that'd be great as I need some help for some research!

 

[Wisp O' Mist]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any Cetacean pools that were more than just concrete and glass?
I know that the Georgia Aquarium has some interesting rockwork in the Beluga exhibit, and the Shedd Aquarium does as well (though I think it's mostly above the water?). As far as I'm aware there's no Dolphin/Orca pool with artificial waves or anything of that nature.

If anyone could help me out that'd be great as I need some help for some research!

The Chimelong Spaceship orca have a wave machine!

 

[BlobfishBoy]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any Cetacean pools that were more than just concrete and glass?
I know that the Georgia Aquarium has some interesting rockwork in the Beluga exhibit, and the Shedd Aquarium does as well (though I think it's mostly above the water?). As far as I'm aware there's no Dolphin/Orca pool with artificial waves or anything of that nature.

If anyone could help me out that'd be great as I need some help for some research!

Look at Aquatica's Commerson's dolphin exhibit. It includes both rockwork and fish in the exhibit.

 

[Wisp O' Mist]

Look at Aquatica's Commerson's dolphin exhibit. It includes both rockwork and fish in the exhibit.

And a water slide goes straight through it!

And yes, that slide is entirely the reason why I convinced my parents to take me to Aquatica Orlando for my thirteenth birthday when it opened back in 2008, lol.

 

[StoppableSan]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any Cetacean pools that were more than just concrete and glass?
I know that the Georgia Aquarium has some interesting rockwork in the Beluga exhibit, and the Shedd Aquarium does as well (though I think it's mostly above the water?). As far as I'm aware there's no Dolphin/Orca pool with artificial waves or anything of that nature.

If anyone could help me out that'd be great as I need some help for some research!

As far as some of the best cetacean facilities out there, I'd personally say the best I've seen were Coral World Ocean Park (a sea pen with a massive boardwalk to view the dolphins, lined with mesh so reef fish can swim in and out) and EPCOT back when they had dolphins, though the latter was a bit too dark for my taste - could have used more natural lighting. National Aquarium's dolphin facility is a standard dolphinarium that does have a deep pool, and Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat (RIP) also had a solid dolphin setup. You may also be interested in Tiergarten Nürnberg's dolphin setup as something out of the ordinary, and I've heard great things about Dolfinarium Harderwijk!

 

[Austin the Sengi]

Photo Credit: @snowleopard

Despite not being a local, Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium has one of, if not the best exhibit for belugas in the entire United States; so that’s something to look into.

 

[Merintia]

Harderwijk Dolphinarium is by far the best I have seen, and a totally different kind of exhibit. I haven´t been in Nürnberg, but seems pretty different too. And although it don´t keeps cetaceans anymore, the Amazon River Dolphin exhibit at Duisburg was another great and naturalistic one

 

[snowleopard]

Harderwijk Dolphinarium is by far the best I have seen, and a totally different kind of exhibit. I haven´t been in Nürnberg, but seems pretty different too. And although it don´t keeps cetaceans anymore, the Amazon River Dolphin exhibit at Duisburg was another great and naturalistic one

Harderwijk has by far and away the best dolphin exhibit I've ever seen in all my travels. Here are two of my photos of the Dolphin Lagoon:

 

[Fin.Dutch]

The Chimelong Spaceship orca have a wave machine!

Ah, I did wonder if any of the Chinese aquariums would have features like that because they're all relatively new (and have soooo much money put into them)

 

[Fin.Dutch]

Harderwijk has by far and away the best dolphin exhibit I've ever seen in all my travels. Here are two of my photos of the Dolphin Lagoon:

That's definitely one of the best looking dolphin exhibits I've ever seen. It's interesting that places with dolphin shows tend to have generally worse exhibits for them.

 

[Keiikoa]

I think SWO's and SWSD's beluga exhibits has some interesting rockwork in their main exhibit at least

 

[Austin the Sengi]

@Keiikoa, while I agree about SeaWorld’s beluga tanks having relatively interesting theming. It’s just that they’re a bit on smaller side in terms of capacity (and general space).

 

[LiSom]

I am not considering the sea pen facilities as they have the clear advantage of already be in the sea so not much needed to be build in order to make it natural:

Harderwijk and Nuremberg are some of the best in Europe and in the world! Duisburg dolphinarium also has some curious style.

For the US I like the Georgia Aquarium dolphin enclosure (not the show pool), I think it looks very unique!

Sea world gold coast in Australia looks big and niiice

SeaWorld Abu Dhabi has a pretty good enclosure filled up with rocks, sand and live fish.

I try to think about some facility in Asia other than SeaWorld but I can't really find any... I expect China would have some interesting dolphinarium as they are opening so many new facilities there but still they all have that blue and empty pool style... I hope SeaWorld Abu Dhabi can at least help to start as a reference for future plans in Asia.