02 The descent
Four halls,one continuous dive.
Brinehall is built as a ramp, not a maze. You enter at the waterline and lose light one hall at a time, from reef to the edge of the deep, roughly the way a diver would.
- 010–20 m
Sunlit Reef
Hard corals under full-spectrum light, every colony grown from fragments in our own nursery. Tangs, clownfish and a hawksbill called Bo.Enter hall - 025–30 m
Kelp Forest
A seven-metre surge tank that moves the kelp the way a North Atlantic swell does: one long push every eleven seconds.Enter hall - 030–200 m
Open Ocean
The main tank. Eagle rays, two loggerheads, a shoal of six hundred sardines, and a floor window you can lie under.Enter hall - 04200–1 000 m
Twilight Room
Moon and comb jellies in circular kreisel tanks, lit at the low blue they would actually see four hundred metres down.Enter hall
03 How we keep them
We don’t take from the sea to fill a tank. Nine in ten of the animals you’ll meet here hatched in our nursery or arrived injured and stayed, and the rest are on a list to go home.
- of residents bred in-house or taken in injured
- 92 %
- animals collected from the wild since 2019
- 0
- rehabilitated and returned to the sea last year
- 31
- of acrylic between you and 4.2 million litres
- 38 cm
04 Visit
Plan thedescent.
| Day entry | Daily | 09:30 – 18:00 |
|---|---|---|
| After Dark | Thu – Sat | 19:00 – 23:00 |
| Members’ mornings | Sunday | 08:30 – 09:30 |
| Last descent | Every day | 60 min before close |