Archive for the ‘Destinations’ Category
Waikiki Aquarium’s Northwest Exhibit Delivers the Goods
The Waikiki Aquarium, already considered a premiere public aquarium by most, has decided to up the ante with the creation of their Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit. The new feature houses some of Hawaii’s best and rarest livestock, including a few masked angelfish (Genicanthus personatus), of which prior to this exhibit there are only a few [...]
Waikiki Aquarium’s New Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Exhibit Opens Next Week
Several years ago, the Waikiki Aquarium announced they were going to be adding a new exhibit to their already spectacular facilities. Originally slated to open July 2nd of this year, the opening was actually pushed back to August 18th, which happens to be next week. This new exhibit, unlike the others on display at the [...]
Qatar Getting a New Floating Island Resort
Qatar and the other states that make up the Unite Arab Emirates are known to be on the cutting edge of over the top architecture, not even limiting themselves to building just on land. One of their latest structural wonders is a semi-submerged floating island resort. The $500 million amphibious resort sits right in the [...]
Black and White Maxima Clam Seen in the Wild
Our contact in the Marshall Islands has been very busy since his last update, and the latest set of images that he sent our way shines a little light as to why. Chuck has naturally taken to SCUBA diving, after all there’s not a whole lot to do when your stuck on an atoll in [...]
Underwater Suite at the Maldives Hilton
How would you like to spend a night in the ocean, and not mob style either? We recently stumbled across this gorgeous underwater suite at the Conrad Rangali Island Maldives Hotel, which is part of the Hilton Hotels family. The room was previously an underwater restaurant, but was converted over to a super exclusive, and [...]
Undersea Walkway at $500 Million Golf Course in Maldives
Troon Golf and Dutch Docklands recently unveiled plans for a new 18-hole floating golf course coming to the Maldives Islands. The monster golf course will consist of a series of floating platforms, each containing two or three holes. Each of the floating platforms will be linked by a series of underwater tunnels, which also lead [...]
London Sea Life Aquarium Highlight Video
The jet lag from the trip back home from London is still kicking my butt, but I managed to arrange some of the footage taken at the London Sea Life Aquarium. The video above highlights a handful of aquariums at the facility, including the large display tank full of tons of different fish and a [...]
London Sea Life Aquarium
While in London, I managed to carve out enough time from all of the touring to visit the London Sea Life Aquarium. The aquarium itself was somewhat disappointing, but it had several reef aquariums that made the trip worthwhile. The main display aquarium was pretty typical, with virtually no lighting, a tunnel going through the [...]
Amazing Borneo Dive Footage
Here is some amazing dive footage brought to us by Underworld Film Productions and taken in the waters of Borneo. The video opens with a gorgeous nudibranch, and follows with a wide variety of different creatures, including anemones with resident porcelain crabs and shrimp, various anglers and frogfish, a few different eels, and one amazingly [...]
AquaNerd Visiting the UK
I’ve recently been given the opportunity to head across the big pond and visit Great Britain for a little R&R, and I couldn’t be more excited. While in London, I’ll be sure to visit as many reef aquarium hot spots as humanly possible, with a guaranteed trip to the London Sea Life Aquarium. The AquaNerd [...]
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