Underwater at Georgia Aquarium

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Underwater at Georgia Aquarium

All photographs are by the author or used with permission of GA Aquarium.​

It was 2005 when Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus offered the fledgling Georgia Aquarium 250 million dollars in start-up funds. Marcus’ vision was to offer his home city of Atlanta one of the best public aquariums the world had to offer. For the team at Georgia Aquarium, the massive donation was both a gift and a challenge. It came with a caveat. They needed to do something no other aquatic institution had done before. It had to be big, and it had to be groundbreaking. Under the direction of curator Bruce Carlson, the team at Georgia Aquarium announced plans to become one of the world’s few...

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[Tuffyyyyy]

Hype af to go there in 3 weeks. I haven't been since I've been into fish keeping so I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[thediscobandit]

Ive always wanted to do this. Cost like $350 for half an hour of snorkeling last time i was there. Cost about twice that to do the hour long scuba dive.

 

[jeremy.gosnell]

Disco bandit, when I was there, the dive program was $325 per person. My girlfriend just became OW certified, and this ranked as her first "dive" aside from checkouts (which were in a muddy east coast lake). Pretty hard to top whale sharks and manta-rays swarming you. What's interesting, the tank is large (and deep) enough to be ranked as an official PADI logged dive. Many aquarium dives lack the depth or potential bottom time to be officially logged.

 

[saltyhog]

I would love to do that dive. I've been pretty close to manta rays though...if you count 2" as close.

The whale sharks...that would really be cool!

 

[thediscobandit]

Disco bandit, when I was there, the dive program was $325 per person. My girlfriend just became OW certified, and this ranked as her first "dive" aside from checkouts (which were in a muddy east coast lake). Pretty hard to top whale sharks and manta-rays swarming you. What's interesting, the tank is large (and deep) enough to be ranked as an official PADI logged dive. Many aquarium dives lack the depth or potential bottom time to be officially logged.

Ok maybe that was it. Maybe it was more with equipment rental or something as i didnt have mine with. I would prefer to snorkel it anyway i think.

 

[Xanthurum]

My wife and I dove it about 10 years ago. Experience of a lifetime for sure!

 

[ReefersDelite]

I sure wish we has a nice place like that in J'ville, FL

 

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