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Project Description II The Aquarium will be themed as an operating Marine Laboratory serving sea life. All Staff will be dressed in appropriate clothing and the operations of the lab will be both interactive with visitors and visual. 1 sl Floor 90% of the mechanical functions of filters, pumping, ozone/UV, protein skimmers and aerators, associated piping and electrical will be visual to the public. There will be gauges, controls, quarantine and relaxing tanks throughout the facility. There will be actual labs for food preparation, water quality control, medical attention, fish farming, agricultural/ plant life, intertidal ecology, biological health, Bob/Helmet diving equipment repair, etc. On the first level there will be 3 labs. A large reef tank with black-tip reef sharks, amberjack, black drum fish, spade fish and rays; a shark encounter walk-through tunnel; variety of colorful sea life and continuing up 3 floors with a walking ramp along the back side of the tank. This level will also house the majority of the filtration, pumping and treatment equipment visual to the public. Other interactive exhibits will include a sea ray encounter and penguin play yard. Visitors will be able to actual touch and interact with the sea rays and penguins and learn from the attendants about their day to day life. e Another unique exhibit is these two large ceiling tanks with clear bottoms hanging through the ceiling. One tank will be jelly fish, the other is sea horses and similar species. These tanks transition up into the lab area on the second floor and are open on the third floor. This area would also have a gift / merchandising and photo 'pick-up' shop located near the exit of the aquarium. Within the shop, is a clown fish tank and similar species. The last exhibit on this level is a Sea-Bob adventure pool with interactive computer activated controlled fish, sharks, rays, dolphins, reptiles and seals. Each visitor will be allowed to change into a bathing suit, ride the Sea-Bob into the tank and experience sea-biking with the fish and computer operated sea life. The pool will be indoor/outdoor and the outdoor area will be an everglade exhibit area; reptiles will be interactive with customers who will be walking and experiencing swamp life aquatics. 2nd Floor Walking up the ramp around the reef tank you arrive at the second level and to your right there will be 3 more labs. These labs also have cylinder tanks that exhibit the jelly fish and sea horses as seen on the first level in the ceiling. e The reef tank offers a full view of the sharks, sea turtles and other reef species in the middle of the tank. It is here where the trainers dive the tank and come up to the glass and talk to the kids and visitors Feasibility Study for a Proposed Aquarium at Sunny Isles, Florida Page 6