Sea-Life Timmendorf Beach
An international chain of excellent private show aquaria, that invites the visitor to have a close look at the adventure world "water". In Timmendorf there is displayed a harmonic combination of large aquaria with much more than 100 m³, for fresh- and seawater animals, as well as details of small aquarium tanks with only about 100 l water content. The well-proved own house technique is completed synergetically by Sander Skimmers and Sander Ozone generators.
The weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT issue no. 46 writes in November 1998:
Sea Life, opened in December 1996, is the first german shoot of the british "Sea Life" chain, who runs a total of 22 marine water aquaria in Ireland, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Eight Million Deutsch Marks were investet in this construction, the run of customers much more than expected. More than 750 000 visitors have been comming to this exhibition on an area of 1500 m². "Native fauna in native environmental" - the basic principle of all Sea-Life-Centres. However, as modest as the concept is, as sumptuous is the presentation...
Finally the door opens to a world, in which it guggles and ripples, splashes, gurgles, rustles and trickles. "From the fountain to the sea" leads the excursion. Hence the visitor enters the north german "Au" described on the signpost as the river Trave. On moss-green concrete rocks the water trickles into a pond, in which perches are swimming around and sterlets, the tiny relatives of the sturgeons, that are nearly extinct in Germany...
Now the river already flows into the sea, now the bridge of Fehmansund bends itself diagonally across the wall. A footbridge towers into the room, beneath it a shaft-driven generator lets the breakers roll. A thin-legged spider is stalking through the splashing water, clods have digged themselves into the mussle gravel and all the time Baltic Sea waves are dragging towards the beach...
However, the exhibitor should not only see the under water world, but he should experience it with his senses - even by touching it. Like underwater dragons trapezoidal shadows are gliding over the ground of a flat tank: rays. They rise up, break through the water surface with sharp snouts, fan just a moment vertically on the water, look apparently rascally at the visitors - and let themselves being stroken.