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Encyclopedia > SeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando

Location Orlando, Florida
Website SeaWorld Orlando
Owner Busch Entertainment Corporation
Opened 1973
Previous names SeaWorld Florida
Operating season All Year
Area 200 acres
Rides 4 total
  • 2 roller coasters
Slogan Do You Believe?

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Rides

SeaWorld Orlando has four attractions, Kraken, Journey to Atlantis, Sky Tower, and Wild Arctic and other various children's rides located in Happy Harbor. Kraken is a roller coaster based on the legendary beast of the same name. Journey to Atlantis is a water coaster where visitors take a trip to the lost city. Wild Arctic is a flight simulator where visitors take a helicopter trip to a fictional base station at the North Pole. The Happy Harbor children's area includes rides, such as The Shamu Express, Ocean Commotion, The Flying Fiddler, Sea Carousel, Swishy Fishes, and Jazzy Jellies. Kraken is a steel roller coaster located at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Shows

Elmo and the Bookaneers
Katina at SeaWorld Orlando in 2002
Katina at SeaWorld Orlando in 2002
  • Believe is a new Shamu show with audience participation. The show is highly visual that concentrates on acrobatics, dramatic original scores, and live underwater video projection.
  • Blue Horizons is the newest dolphin show at SeaWorld Orlando. It combines acrobatics, dolphins, False Killer Whales and birds into a thrilling show.
  • Elmo and Bookaneers, a stage show, features Elmo and the gang working to pass the "Bookaneer Test" and learn a great treasure is at their fingertips [1]
  • Odyssea features high-flying acrobatics, dramatic music, and many special effects on an underwater themed set.
  • Pet's Ahoy! is a show using common cats, dogs, and other animals. These animals were adopted from a shelter, and the show discusses pet adoptions. These animals perform tricks and do humorous stunts.
  • Shamu Rocks The World is a rock n’ roll concert combining improvisational movements of killer whales with music, computer-controlled lighting in sync with the music, and LED screens that morph into a kaleidoscope of world images.
  • Mistify immerses guests in a vivid underwater adventure that encompasses both sea and sky. SeaWorld's center lake is stage to the show featuring larger-than-life marine creatures on 60-foot mist screens, 100-foot fountains, flames on water and fireworks. [2]
  • Clyde And Seamore Take Pirate Island, an immense pirate ship serves as the backdrop for a swashbuckling adventure that stars sea lions, an otter, and a walrus. Billed as a tale of lost loot, pirate plunder and misadventure on the high seas. A mime entertains the audience 10 minutes before the live water show starts. [3]
  • Clyde and Seamore Present Sea Lions Tonight, SeaWorld's sea lion comedy duo, otters, and walrus parody other favorite SeaWorld shows.[4]

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Animal Attractions

Dinning with the sharks at the Sharks Underwater Grill
Dinning with the sharks at the Sharks Underwater Grill
  • Clydesdale Hamlet
  • Dolphin Cove
  • Dolphin Nursery
  • Manatee Rescue
  • Pacific Point Preserve
  • Penguin Encounter
  • Shark Encounter
  • Stingray Lagoon
  • Turtle Point
  • Wild Arctic

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Aquatica

On March 5, 2007, SeaWorld held a press conference officially announcing Aquatica. Its signature slide will be two clear tubes that will run through a Commerson's Dolphin habitat. It will also feature two side by side wave pools that can run independent of each other or together. There will also be two lazy rivers, one calm and slow that goes under a tank full of tropical fish and a fast one that will feature rapids and geysers. Altogether it will feature 36 slides including areas for children. It will also be the first major park to open in seven years the last one being Discovery Cove. This article is about the day. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Binomial name Cephalorhynchus commersonii Lacépède, 1804 Commersons Dolphin range Commersons Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) is one of four dolphins in the Cephalorhynchus genus. ... Discovery Cove is an Orlando, Florida theme park in which guests can interact with a variety of marine animals, most notably bottlenose dolphins. ...


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SeaWorld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (473 words)
SeaWorld is a chain of theme parks in the United States, with operations in Orlando, Florida, San Diego, California, San Antonio, Texas, and previously Cleveland, Ohio.
In July 2005, SeaWorld Orlando announced plans to add a water park to its complex, which already includes SeaWorld and Discovery Cove; the water park is expected to combine water thrill rides with marine life, with attractions such as clear acrylic tube slides through pools containing Commerson's dolphins.
SeaWorld's commitment to conservation, research and animal rescue was recently formalized with the creation of the non-profit SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund.
Orlando, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3614 words)
Orlando is the center of the Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne metropolitan area.
SeaWorld Orlando is a large adventure park that features numerous zoological displays and marine animals alongside an amusement park with roller coasters and water park.
Orlando was a stronghold of minor-league ice hockey throughout the 1990's, being home of the Orlando Solar Bears of the now-defunct International Hockey League.
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