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Back to School: Start the year with a lesson at the Two Oceans Aquarium
Getting out of the traditional classroom and visiting the Two Oceans Aquarium is a great way to augment the learning experience. The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Education team opens a whole new world of interactive learning for the students in your care! From preschool to matric, we have a wide variety of expertly designed and curriculum-relevant lessons ready for your class. Take your pick!
Works of art: shot by you!
Let's take a look at some magical Aquarium moments, captured by you!
Tracking our Turtles: News from Nobomvu!
Nobomvu, the loggerhead turtle, was released into the ocean after two years of rehabilitation with the Turtle Conservation Centre! Now, our Red Lady has sent in her first satellite tracking update! Let's hear more from Talitha Noble, Conservation Manager at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre.
SOLD OUT: Valentine's Day at the Two Oceans Aquarium
We are giving in-love (or in-like) couples a unique opportunity to spend the most romantic day of the year – Valentine’s Day – at the most romantic place in Cape Town – the Two Oceans Aquarium. This is a special chance to visit the fish after dark, and an opportunity to impress your date in a very exclusive way - intimate dinners-for-two in front of your favourite Aquarium exhibits.
A magical (and misty) first Trash Bash of 2024!
The Two Oceans Aquarium community kicked off the past weekend with the first Trash Bash beach cleanup of 2024!
Swimming against the odds: Meet Bokkie the green turtle!
South Africans worldwide are sure to remember the feeling when our national rugby team, the Springboks, won the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2023. Well, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre remembers this moment with an extra special twist: Welcoming a new turtle into rehabilitation!
We released 14 satellite-tagged juvenile loggerhead turtles as part of an international research project!
As an African first, fourteen juvenile loggerhead turtles were tagged and released back into the ocean on 20 January 2024 as part of an international research project. While releases of rehabilitated turtles are a regular activity for the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre, this release was significant as each juvenile turtle was fitted with a prototype satellite tag. This is a major milestone for South Africa and the continent, as it is the first time that juvenile loggerhead turtles have been tagged and released in Africa.
Enormous ocean sunfish rescued in Cape Town harbour
On the morning of 30 January 2024, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation was called to rescue an enormous ocean sunfish in the nearby drydock.
Tracking our Turtles: The first update of 2024!
It has been a month since we have shared updates on our travelling turtles; Nobomvu, Bheni, Turbo and Pan! We're itching to know how our ocean adventurers spent their first month of 2024! Let's hear more from Talitha Noble, Conservation Manager at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre.
Meet our ragged-tooth sharks
The Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Exhibit is home to five ragged-tooth sharks - each unique in their own right, but all equally marvellous. Let's meet them!
Happy Reverse the Red Day!
With many environmental issues dominating the media, particularly climate change, biodiversity loss is an often overlooked, yet just as significant, threat. Reverse the Red is a pioneering global movement that works to reverse biodiversity loss and showcase positive achievements for species on the brink of collapse - by celebrating efforts that bring species back from being "endangered". Today, 7 February 2024, is the second Reverse the Red Day!
The weird and wonderful sunfish: Everything you need to know!
Recently, our Two Oceans Aquarium team was involved in a huge sunfish rescue in the Transnet Robinson Dry Dock. To many, the sunfish is an almost alien-looking animal – with a weirdly shaped body that seems to be missing another half, it could be from another planet. Naturally, the rescue sparked many questions from our Aquarium family: What is a sunfish? Where do they live? What do they eat?