The Oregon Coast Aquarium is offering a class for intermediate scuba divers. “Marine Ecology for the Wet and Wild” offers a chance for divers to experience the aquarium’s Passages of the Deep exhibit, home to hundreds of marine animals. The class will be Saturday, July 22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and includes a review of the 13 major groups of invertebrates inhabiting Northwest waters.

“We won’t be diving with the sharks,” said Vallorie Hodges, dive safety officer at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. “But we’ll be right up close to many common and some uncommon Pacific Northwest fishes and invertebrates.” Hodges said this is the ideal place for divers to learn about marine life because “You would have to log many hours diving in the open water of the Oregon Coast to find and identify the marine life you will see in one dive at the aquarium.”

Aquarium offers marine ecology for intermediate scuba divers

The world’s largest aquarium has added two of the world’s largest fish.

Two female whale sharks – Alice and Trixie – arrived late Saturday at the Georgia Aquarium.

They joined the aquarium’s two male whale sharks, Ralph and Norton, in their 6 million-gallon tank. The four sharks are the only ones of their kind on display outside of Asia.

AP Wire | 06/04/2006 | Georgia Aquarium adds two female whale sharks

One of the cool things about large aquariums is that somebody has to clean them and feed the fishies.