Housing over 2,000 creatures from around the world, including an extensive
seahorse breeding programme, with many species of newly reared seahorses in tanks viewable by visitors. In other displays, it has a
green sea turtles,
sharks,
sting rays, and
otters. In 2009, the centre announced as its newest attraction, a "Sensorama 4-D Cinema". In addition to 3-D viewing, the audience can be subjected to sensations such as wind, salt spray, and the smell the seaweed, or other sensations depending on the (sea-themed) film. In 2014 the centre opened a £2,000,000 'Penguin Ice Adventure' habitat that became home to a colony of
gentoo penguins. During March 2020, the centre became home to a pair of
northern sea otters, named Ozzy and Ola. They were the first and only sea otters to be displayed at any zoological collection in the UK and were rescued in
Alaska. ==In media==