Coral World

Coral World

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 trekkin" technology, when Christina Peace and John Beck exchanged wedding vows there.

External links

* [http://www.coralworldvi.com/ Coral World homepage]


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