It is surrounded by lush green foliage and backed by a jagged, mossy rockface. Also in this building is the Adventure Theatre, an auditorium refitted to show 4D-ride films. This seat theatre, sponsored by Public Service Electric and Gas, includes a 3D film shown with environmental effects water spray, wind gusts, and seat motion that combine to bring riders closer to the experience.
When it opened in July , the Adventure Theatre became the first built-in 4D-capable auditorium featured in an American aquarium. SimEx-Iwerks provides the technology, and the ride films are shown daily. Many of the animals in the South Building were simply moved to better facilitate traffic flow and the organization of species.
Some of the new animals in the building include the critically endangered shark ray, Cuvier's dwarf caiman, an electric eel, and stingrays. Adventure Aquarium is one of a few in the country that allow guests to touch moon jellies, northern lobsters, or pink shrimp. The aquarium also houses African penguins in the only outside exhibit, Penguin Island, which opened in The enclosure was shut down in for refurbishment and reopened in This was done to better imitate the natural environment of the species and included heated rock fixtures and a 17, gallon tank filled with salt water.
He weighed pounds and was 14 fee…. Map Hotels Places. History Origin The New Jersey State Aquarium was planned to revitalize the Camden waterfront, using the aquarium as a focal point for a shopping center, a hotel, and high-rise residential buildings. Renovation The aquarium never closed during this reconstruction phase, but many exhibits were periodically offline or inaccessible, making the small building even smaller.
Exhibits The South Building The existing building became known as the South Building, and would continue to feature native Atlantic specimens in smaller tanks and the giant Ocean Tank on the first floor formerly Ocean Base Atlantic , as well as more unusual animals on the second floor. Places Adventure Aquarium Adventure Aquarium. Michael Doyle, the water is the city's "treasure.
And that's why he supports the waterfront effort - including the aquarium expansion - even as he opposes the political takeover. Since , when the aquarium opened, ferry service has resumed and the waterfront has added the Susquehanna Bank Center concert arena, the USS New Jersey, a Children's Garden, and the Campbell's Field baseball stadium. The state takeover sought to build on these existing strengths.
And so if waterfront visitors today look out the car window on the way into town, they might glimpse the takeover's winners - and losers. Visitors from Philadelphia turn off the Ben Franklin Bridge into the historic downtown, where Rutgers-Camden Law School - thanks in part to recovery money - has opened new classrooms. They might see the rehabilitated neighborhood of Cooper Grant, the restored Johnson Park, and maybe even the new scoreboard at Campbell's Field, the Rutgers-owned minor-league stadium.
The recovery funded all of those projects. Across the street is the Board of Education, which presides over some of the worst graduation rates and test scores statewide. The board is controlled by the governor, as per the recovery law, but no money was earmarked for the district.
Pass the school board and find an expanse of parking lots on the waterfront where a state trooper is often stationed to protect the tourist attractions - while the rest of the city faces an unprecedented police shortage.
Waterfront lots are among six parking projects funded with millions in recovery dollars. One lot was built for state employees at Riverfront State Prison, which is now shuttered. A sixth of the recovery money finances state entities like this - including the South Jersey Port Corp. Some parking lots were intended to be placeholders for a future Camden "town center" called Cooper's Crossing. So far, visitors will find only one element of Cooper's Crossing - the Ferry Terminal Building, the first privately financed office structure in the city in nearly a half-century, and touted as a key recovery accomplishment.
The building is 85 percent filled with tenants, thanks in part to recovery-funded lease incentives, but a long-awaited anchor restaurant has yet to move in. The other parts of Cooper's Crossing are on schedule, say Steiner and the state, and are coming soon. Next door to the Ferry Terminal Building, visitors snap cell-phone pictures of the Philadelphia skyline before going through the aquarium entrance, which now faces Philadelphia instead of Camden.
Once inside, they leave the downtrodden city behind, and they never really return. The gift-shop postcards say "Camden," but the mugs and snow globes are branded with an aquarium logo that makes no mention of the distressed city that politicians say the aquarium is supposed to promote. Visitors aren't here for Camden.
They're here for the fish. You can gaze at sharks straight on or look at them upside down through a marvelous underwater tunnel. He wants to work here! As for human food, visitors have no incentive to leave the premises. If there isn't a fish tank around that corner, then there's an aquarium vendor wearing a Hawaiian lei, listening to Bob Marley's "One Love," and selling Jamaican meat patties. It's all part of the adventure.
Across the street, the manager of the upscale Victor Pub, which recovery money supported, says he gets few, if any, aquarium visitors. In Steiner's presentation to the Camden Recovery Board in July , president Barry Rosenberg promised job training for city residents. The board then unanimously approved the project.
Rosenberg said such training existed at first. But Steiner sold the aquarium operations to another company, and now only 23 percent of its employees - 28 percent during the summer - live in Camden. Before the recovery, the percentage of Camden residents employed there was 43 percent.
With every group assembled and working together, construction pushed along through the next nine months, during which time, the name "New Jersey State Aquarium" was retired and the Adventure Aquarium was born. The existing building became known as the South Building, and would continue to feature native Atlantic specimens in multiple smaller tanks and the giant Ocean Tank on the first floor formerly Ocean Base Atlantic , as well as more "weird" and unusual animals on the second floor formerly, the "Conservation Outreach and Observation Lab".
Added to this building beyond the heavy renovation would be a new gateway to the Caribbean , Irazu River Falls. This foot-tall 9. Surrounded by lush green foliage and backed by a jagged, mossy rockface, the waterfall feature has become a popular exhibit not only for its dramatic appearance and diversity of animals, but also for its tranquility and mystifying nature.
Also added to this building is the Adventure Theatre, in actuality the existing auditorium refitted to show exciting 4D-ride films. When it opened in July , the Adventure Theatre became the first built-in 4D-capable auditorium featured in an American aquarium.
SimEx-Iwerks currently provides the technology and the ride films displayed daily. Many of the animals in the South Building were simply moved to better facilitate traffic flow and the organization of species. Some of the new animals in the building include the extremely rare and dangerously threatened shark ray, dwarf caimans, an electric eel , and freshwater stingrays.
Most existing exhibits generally remain, though redesigned for greater animal health and guest satisfaction. To date, Adventure Aquarium is one of a select few in the country that allow guests to touch moon jellies , northern lobsters, or pink shrimp , and is the only one that allows guests to touch all three.
The expansion building added to the northern face of the old Aquarium became known as the "North Building". This is a completely new structure, built to accommodate three new exhibits, a new food service area, main entry atrium, gift shop, and casual dining restaurant. The Adventure Aquarium made history again in this building through the addition of the "West African River Experience", a new exhibition featuring nearly every major animal found in or near a West African River — including the Nile hippopotami.
No other aquarium has displayed these animals to date, and few zoos have recreated the underwater viewing environment that only aquariums can provide. In captivity, the animals may live to reach at least 55 years of age.
Also added in the North Building include the "Jules Verne Gallery", stocked with sea dragons , jellies and giant Pacific octopuses and the Shark Realm, featuring sand tiger , sandbar , and nurse sharks , all viewable from multiple floor-to-ceiling windows and a foot 12 m shark tunnel , suspended directly through the center of the ,US-gallon 2, m 3 tank. Brave visitors are also offered the opportunity to swim with the sharks in the tank itself — the Swim with the Sharks program allows guests to snorkel along the outer perimeter of the tank inside a concrete channel before ending the swim by feeding the animals manually in the "Ray Tray".
The experiences are offered only at certain times of the day by appointment only. A new breed of wind turbines were installed on the roof of the rectangular North Building in the spring of The Adventure Aquarium attracted just over two million visitors to the Camden Waterfront in its first two years of operation.
Although some of the initial construction plans never came to fruition a 3D-capable IMAX theatre was never constructed, nor was the proposed Soundwave: A Museum of Recorded Sound , work did begin in late on the new Camden Ferry Terminal Building, the first privately funded office structure built in the city since the s.
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