What is Kelly Tarltons underwater world?
Kelly Tarltons is a huge underground Aquarium that was named after a man named Kelly Tarlton. Kelly was an underwater explorer that had found interesting things such as sea life, coral reefs and even dangerous sharks.
Kelly tarltons had a dream to build an underground Aquarium to show the people of New Zealand and the world what he had discovered in the water and so he did. It was built in 1985 and was first opened later that year. It was built close to Okahu Bay and there he found and brought in helpless sea creatures.
The reason why Kelly and his team wanted to help sea creatures was because our beaches were so polluted and filled with rubbish. So he had to help them and in doing that he created a healthy environment where they can live in peace. When Kelly finished the underwater aquarium he filled each attraction with water and designed each fish tank to suit each Sea creatures habitat so that it will be suitable for the sea creatures.
Kelly also was very fascinated with sharks and therefore his team caught them and transported them in to Kelly Tarltons. There are four different types of sharks at Kelly Tarltons. The Sand Tiger Shark, The Broadnose Sevengill, School shark and the Wobbegong sharks. All of these sharks are harmless to other sea creatures.
Weeks later after the creation of Kelly Tarltons, sadly Kelly Tarlton past away. But he passed on a big gift to tourists and local people of NZ. He also gave his underwater aquarium to the people to learn about the creatures of the sea.
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