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This aquarium opened in New York City in 2000 and yet there is scarcely a mention of it on ZooChat. Has anyone visited and would they care to post a short review? There is the usual assortment of aquatic creatures including a 120,000 gallon shark tank (with sand tiger sharks, nurse sharks, moray eels, a Queensland grouper and a loggerhead sea turtle) and marquee animals such as sea lions, seals, otters, penguins, gators and even snow monkeys!

Long Island Aquarium & Exhibition Center

Map of Long Island Aquarium & Exhibition Center:

http://longislandaquarium.com/images/visitor-map.pdf
 
The long island aquarium is a very nice middle sized aquarium. It has a nice shark tank and is the whole placed is themed to atlantis because its original name was atlantis marine world. They have recently added a butterfly exhibit and small hotel next to it. The outdoor area has 3 snow monkeys originally from central park. It also has a very nice river otter exhibit. Plus it has sea lion shows, reptiles, seals, rays and penguins outside. Inside it has sharks, long island fish, and many other kinds of sea creatures. It is a little overpriced but i would suggest anyone to visit it.
 
Long Island Aquarium

Yes you are right it is a nice aquarium that used to be Atlantis Marineworld. Aquarium was developed by Jim Bissett, a landscaper/nursery owner in the Riverhead area of Long Island and Joe Yauillo who used to work at the New York Aquarium. They did a fantastic job of building the aquarium and exhibits themselves and it is well worth a trip up there. Jim was a great guy and unfortuately died recently, before he saw his dream of the convention center and hotel finished. He will be greatly missed.

Jim hired us to do renderings of some of the exhibits for them, and I will post those's and some finished pictures in the photo gallery.

One exhibit not to miss is Joe's live coral tank. It is by far one of the nicest I have seen anywhere in the world. The diversity is remarkable.
 
The other Long Island Aquarium

Good point, Yes it is in the far end of Long Island.

There was a attempt to do a very large Long Island aquarium near by, which was being designed by either Cambridge 7 or CSP (I don't remember which - it has been a while). I do remember Peter Chermayeff and Bobby Poole involved - I just don't remember which company they were with at that time. It was over 100 million and was moved to different locations twice. Bill Flynn from Tennessee Aquarium was going to be the CEO of the Aquarium. It was on our books for about 5 years, before we took it off. In the mean time, Jim and Joe started the aquarium in Riverhead and the bigger project died.

Key componet of the aquarium was entering, via escolater, into an ice cave. The aquarium had a 100' tall glacier, which people entered and then came out in a forest scene. Idea was Long Island in the ice age. It would have been a stunning effect, but very expensive to pull off. Biggest problem was the UV turning the glacier into yellow snow!!!!! Lots of testing when into the materials and we had produced several samples of different glacier scenes, snow, and lots of blue lighting effects.

It would have been a very interesting project.

Dave
 
dmanwarren said:
Good point, Yes it is in the far end of Long Island.

There was a attempt to do a very large Long Island aquarium near by, which was being designed by either Cambridge 7 or CSP (I don't remember which - it has been a while). I do remember Peter Chermayeff and Bobby Poole involved - I just don't remember which company they were with at that time. It was over 100 million and was moved to different locations twice. Bill Flynn from Tennessee Aquarium was going to be the CEO of the Aquarium. It was on our books for about 5 years, before we took it off. In the mean time, Jim and Joe started the aquarium in Riverhead and the bigger project died.

Key componet of the aquarium was entering, via escolater, into an ice cave. The aquarium had a 100' tall glacier, which people entered and then came out in a forest scene. Idea was Long Island in the ice age. It would have been a stunning effect, but very expensive to pull off. Biggest problem was the UV turning the glacier into yellow snow!!!!! Lots of testing when into the materials and we had produced several samples of different glacier scenes, snow, and lots of blue lighting effects.

It would have been a very interesting project.

Dave
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You can see some renderings of it here
C&P Chermayeff & Poole, Inc.| Home Page

under "Current & Recent Projects"
 
I forgot about the renderings, I have pictures of the model we did for it, it was pretty cool - glacier joke!!!!

Anyway having it listed under current projects along with all of the others we worked on 10 years ago seems to be wishful thinking or maybe just as filler for the old resume.

Take care,

Dave
 
it's a great place. I've been there numerous times. the only thing is. it's all quite expensive. I went there with my family one time with US$100. We left with US$1!
 
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