The interior features a giant aquarium which reproduces a cross-section of tropical ocean containing giant turtles, sharks and stingrays etc.

Visitors can walk through a transparent tube beneath this "ocean" and view pools stocked with tropical fish, lobsters, otters, rays, sharks and breeding seahorses.

There are touch-pool demonstrations, feeding displays, educational talks, a "lost city of Atlantis", and a 4-D cinema where dolphins leap from the screen and spectators can feel the spray and smell the seaweed.

The centre also contains a shop and cafe; the nearest car park is the multi-storey in Brindleyplace (map).