Sealife Great Yarmouth
Sealife Great Yarmouth
Marine Parade,
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk NR30 3AH
Tel: 01493 330 631
About Sealife Great Yarmouth
Sealife is a network of innovative centres across the UK, Europe and beyond that operate both as a family attraction and great family day out, and also as a conservation and education organisation. Sealife helps millions of people to discover the marine world through its coastal sanctuaries, such as Gweek, in the West Country, and its hi-tech, all swimming all dancing centres in Birmingham, Great Yarmouth, Blackpool, Brighton, Scarborough, Weymouth and Loch Lomond. Each Sealife centre helps to safeguard the seas and their inhabitants for the future and for all of us, by sponsoring conservation efforts and through increased public awareness among visitors on their family day out.
Dedicated Sealife projects include regular contributions to conservation and marine animal welfare schemes, and a special programme to manage and develop these activities: Save Our Seas – S.O.S.
Among the Sealife SOS success stories this millennium are a petition that led to a heavy fine for the Greek government and forced it to improve protection for nesting beaches for Loggerhead Sea Turtles on its coastline; a petition that helped to bring about a ban on the shark-finning industry in European national waters; pressure to reduce the slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in fishing nets and to implement overall cuts in fishing quotas; and funding for a new turtle rescue centre on the Greek island of Zakynthos. Ongoing Sealife campaigning includes an effort to eliminate rogue fishermen dodging EU quotas by flying flags of convenience.
Other Sealife work at its centres includes the creation of a spacious enclosure for families of Asian short-clawed otters, allowing them the freedom and enjoyment that visitors get from a family day out at Sealife. A ticket will also allow access to seahorses and the research done on them that has cast serious doubt on their much-vaunted monogamy! And that’s not the only family attraction at this family attraction!
There’s the rapidly growing Sealife seal rescue network for common and grey seals, and a ground- (or is it sea) breaking programme of shark conservation, which had rehabilitated the creatures both literally and in the public psyche. All of these things, and much more besides, make a visit to any Sealife centre an intriguing and informative family day out.
Just the ticket for an all year round family attraction that the weather can’t spoil.
Sealife Great Yarmouth is on the Marine Parade in the Norfolk coastal resort and is one of the biggest Sea Life Centres in the country. The Sealife Great Yarmouth centre is a spectacular family attraction and a perfect any-weather family day out, an entry ticket affording, among other things, a display of basking tropical sharks, one of which is Britain's biggest example - Nobby the Nurse Shark. The display incorporates a breath-taking walkthrough underwater tunnel and features the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft. With over 50 native species to see, ranging from shrimps and starfish, to stingrays and conger eels, Sealife Great Yarmouth provides a splendid reminder of Great Yarmouth's long fishing and maritime heritage, which saw the resort develop from a narrow sandbank to one of the east coast's gems.
The Sealife Great Yarmouth centre boasts some 40 displays, including a 250,000 litre tropical Ocean Display, with brightly coloured fishes darting in and out of sunken ruins, and providing visitors with both a wealth of fun and informative learning experiences. Hence, it’s a splendid family day out, with something for fishermen of all ages, from regular presentations and feeding demonstrations, to an Outdoor soft play area, large restaurant, and giftshop. Just the ticket from any angle!
Other highlights of a family day out at Sealife Great Yarmouth are the sea turtles, Australian big-bellies and the Centre’s Seahorse Breeding & Conservation Centre, not to mention the recent introduction of a Pirate Cove, where visitors can search for pirate treasure guarded by venomous lionfish, moray eels and jellyfish, as well as a band of swashbuckling Pirates that would like nothing better than to keel-haul interlopers and make them walk the plank, me hearties! The entry ticket to Sealife Great Yarmouth includes disabled access and is open every day of the year, except Christmas Day, when the swimmers get to rest, making it a family attraction for everyone.