Six Flags Marine World Unveils Northern California's First Interactive Dolphin Touch and Feeding Experience
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Dolphin Touch and Feeding Experience
Thursday April 28, 7:00 am ET
- New Ocean Discovery Experience Makes a Huge Splash With an Up Close
and Personal Encounter With Magnificent Marine Life
VALLEJO, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Six Flags Marine
World is offering guests a new world of exploration with Ocean
Discovery, the Park's new interactive marine animal encounter that
opens to the public on April 29. The new Caribbean-themed destination
is the only place in Northern California where guests can personally
interact with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, southern stingrays and
warm-weathered penguins.
The 2-acre area provides guests the opportunity to interact with and
feed some of the world's natural wonders while learning about the
animals and the importance of natural habitat conservation and
protection.
"Ocean Discovery is an exciting addition to Six Flags Marine World and
exemplifies the type of interactive and fun learning experience we
offer for the entire family," said Michelle Bridwell, marine mammal
supervisor at Six Flags Marine World. "Ocean Discovery presents a rare
opportunity to expand the horizons of our guests through an up close
and personal experience with dolphins, stingrays and warm-weathered
penguins."
Specifically, Ocean Discovery has three interactive marine life
experiences, including Dolphin Encounter, Penguin Passage and Stingray
Bay.
-- Dolphin Encounter - Atlantic bottlenose dolphins play and surf
inside
a custom designed 200,000-gallon pool where guests can have
direct
contact with the animals and their trainers. During designated
times
guests can touch and feed the dolphins with the assistance of
the
Park's veteran trainers. Additionally, visitors can enjoy the
dolphins from an underwater viewing area.
-- Stingray Bay - Alongside a 10,000-gallon pool, guests have the
opportunity to touch and feed stingrays, which are commonly
found in
southern parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and Gulf of
Mexico. Southern stingrays can reach a width of five feet and
weigh
more than 200 pounds.
-- Penguin Passage - The new outdoor, rocky exhibit has an
8,000-gallon
pool and is home to a colony of South African penguins, also
known as
black-footed penguins. Guests can watch these flightless birds
frolic
and swim from rare underwater and eye-level views.
Six Flags Marine World originally opened in 1968 as a zoological park
and over the years has grown into America's original combination
wildlife park, oceanarium and theme park.
In addition to the new Ocean Discovery, Six Flags Marine World provides
a once-in-a-lifetime experience with 35 wild rides, nine entertaining
shows, and more than 3,000 rare and exotic animals in 35 up-close,
animal attractions. Six Flags Marine World is located in Vallejo,
California, off of Interstate 80, just 30 miles northeast of San
Francisco, 50 miles southwest of Sacramento and near the Napa Valley
Wine Country.
Six Flags Marine World is managed by Six Flags, Inc., the world's
largest regional theme park company. Through its subsidiaries, it owns
and operates a total of 30 parks in North America. Six Flags parks
serve 34 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Six
Flags, Inc. is a publicly held corporation with offices in New York
City and Oklahoma City. The Company's stock trades on the NYSE under
the symbol: PKS.
NOTE: SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags
Theme Parks Inc.
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Source: Six Flags, Inc.