Coral World Ocean Park

Coral World Ocean Park
Coral World Ocean Park

Turtle feeding at Coral World
Date opened 1970s
Location St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Coordinates 18°20′56″N 64°51′54″W / 18.3490241°N 64.8650489°W / 18.3490241; -64.8650489Coordinates: 18°20′56″N 64°51′54″W / 18.3490241°N 64.8650489°W / 18.3490241; -64.8650489
Volume of largest tank 80,000 US gallons (303,000 l)[1]
Website coralworldvi.com


Coral World is a marine park located in the island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The museum and park's structure consists of an over-water floor with gift shops, restaurants, exhibitions, a touch pool and an underwater observatory where tourists can see non-captive fish going about their lives.

Coral World was inaugurated in the 1970s. It has been one of St. Thomas' most important tourist attractions since then. In the 1990s, world boxing champion Julian Jackson, the third boxer from the Virgin Islands to become a world champion and a big celebrity in St. Thomas, was hired as a worker, to attract more tourists to the site.

On September 1998, workers at Coral World began to breed seahorses. In 2000, the place was awarded the EPA Environmental Quality Award, and on January 10, 2001, the site became the first place in history to perform an underwater wedding using the Sea trek technology, when Christina Peace and John Beck exchanged wedding vows there.[citation needed]

Notes

  1. ^ "Coral World Ocean Park". stthomastraveler.com. St Thomas Traveler. http://www.stthomastraveler.com/attractions/coral-world-ocean-park.php. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 

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