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Back to school special 2022: discount on school group lessons at the aquarium!
Become everyone’s favourite teacher with a visit to the Two Oceans Aquarium! Getting out of the traditional classroom and visiting the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Discovery Centre is a great way to augment the learning experience. The Education Foundation wants to make it easier for you by offering a "Back to School" special: Book an educational activity and visit the Aquarium for just R55 per child!Five things that kids have taught teacher thabo during oceans in motion lessons
Outreach teacher Thabo Sabeko spends most of his time on the road, visiting schools around Cape Town with the Oceans in Motion mobile aquarium. With the support of DHL, Thabo is able to take this mobile classroom to schools in need, free of charge!Triple diver deal: padi open water diver course for three people - for the price of only two
Winter is the best time to be a scuba diver in Cape Town - become a PADI Open Water Diver in this limited-time three-for-the-price-of-two promotion!Ocean superheroes: discover animal superpowers at the two oceans aquarium (and become a sidekick)
Our waters are filled with Ocean Superheroes, animals of all shapes and sizes that are equipped with unique superpowers to help them survive and thrive in the underwater world! These school holidays, we're celebrating the special powers of ocean animals on our social media platforms and inside the Two Oceans Aquarium with some awesome new comic book-inspired signage! Plus: There are some amazing events you can attend with us!Three (other) fantastic animals you can see in the save our seas foundation shark exhibit
Ragged-tooth sharks are the stars of the show in the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Exhibit, but they share this space with several other species – all equally amazing, and fascinating. Let’s meet a few of these fantastical beasts so that next time when you visit the Aquarium and the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Exhibit, you will know where to find them.What is a padi discover scuba diving experience?
If you've never dived before, but want to see our I&J Ocean Exhibit from the inside, then the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience is for you. This short course takes you from having no underwater experience at all, to having the skills needed to safely dive with supervision, and is the perfect opportunity for any intrepid ocean explorer from ages 10 and up!Plastic free july: easy changes that you can make to keep plastic pollution out of our ocean
It's Plastic Free July, a month where people around the globe are challenged to say "no" to single-use plastics, and be part of reducing the plastic pollution that enters our ocean. Cutting out plastic might sound like a big commitment, but there are plenty of small changes you can make to your daily life that have a large overall effect - especially if we all make these changes together!Thanks for joining us at Mouille Point for Trash Bash
Bright and early on the morning of 2 July 2022, the Two Oceans Aquarium team, together with members of the public, headed to Mouille Point Beach to collect plastic pollution as part of our regular Trash Bash beach cleanups.Creating awareness: Sharing knowledge is the most important part of the turtle rescue programme
A significant portion of conservation is the creation of awareness around conservation issues, but we don't really talk about "creating awareness" much. The reality is that awareness is the most important part of our mission - we'd rather NOT hear the stories of turtles that don't need to be rescued, than have to tell the stories about turtles that do.Meet Turbo the rescued green sea turtle
Turbo is a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) that was rescued on 22 September 2021 at De Hoop Nature reserve by members of Spill Tech, who initially thought she was dead. De Hoop rangers rapidly helped get Turbo into the hands of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Rehabilitation Team.Sharks: Keeping our oceans in balance
Sharks are absolutely amazing - we all know this! They are certainly some of the greatest superheroes in the ocean. With incredible swimming, hunting and camouflage capabilities, not to mention amazing vision and sensory abilities, sharks are everything extraordinary, rolled into one animal. But did you know that sharks have the little-known, but much-needed superpower of keeping ecosystems in balance?Turtle rehabilitation at its finest: What I learned from the turtle rehabilitation team
Turtles live most comfortably in warmer water. Being reptiles, they regulate their body temperature according to the ambient water temperature. So, when the weaker hatchlings find themselves in cold water for too long, they become cold-stunned. Many of the weak turtles are also injured and fighting illness. This combined with the cold water leads to them being washed up onto the shore. These turtles need to be rehabilitated to ensure that their injuries and ailments do not prevent them from functioning properly when they are released back into the wild.