Two Oceans Aquarium

Love the ocean? Why not visit it all year long! 🌊

With a Two Oceans Aquarium Membership, you get unlimited access to Cape Town’s underwater wonderland — whenever you want!

From meeting playful penguins to exploring the deep on a scuba dive, your membership comes with up to 25% off exclusive ocean experiences and gift shop treasures. 🐧

Whether you're a curious kid or a grown-up sea lover, the ocean is calling… will you answer?

Dive in here: https://bit.ly/46D0oeH

The Two Oceans Aquarium team is proud to have supported Save a fishie for the kick-off cleanup of their coastal cleanup series! 🩵 With clear skies and an enthusiastic community, it was the perfect start to what will be 7 weeks of daily cleanups hosted by Zoë and the Save A Fishie squad.

Together, we picked up over a ton of beach litter at Lagoon Beach - 1 035kg! Thank you to everyone for their awesome team spirit and commitment to preserving our ocean health! 🪸

The Aquarium wishes the best of luck to the Coast 2 Coast team, and we'd like to encourage our regular Trash Bashers and other fans to head over to Save A Fishie's website to find the full schedule of their upcoming cleanups (there is almost certainly one at your nearest beach): https://saveafishie.co.za/coast-to-coast/

Meet the team at the Turtle Conservation Centre! 🐢🩵

With the daily demands of caring for turtles undergoing rehabilitation at the Turtle Conservation Centre, it is vital that the group of people caring for them are highly skilled, compassionate, and capable. Our turtle team is just that. 🙌 🩺

From preparing food, dispensing vitamins, and recording turtle behaviours to administering medication, managing enrichment schedules, and taking X-rays, our team works around the clock to provide their patients with the highest possible standard of care and contribute to the recovery of turtle numbers worldwide. 💙

Meet Ayesha, Bernice, Razaan, Siyolise, Talitha, Tracy, Brigitte, and Sange: https://www.aquarium.co.za/news/meet-the-team-at-the-turtle-conservation-centre

It's Endangered Species Day, and we're highlighting four threatened species that call the Two Oceans Aquarium home! 🩵🌊

We believe in the power of education for conservation! As a part of this mission, we proudly house several endangered marine species. These animals are ambassadors for their species’ plights, informing and encouraging visitors to learn more and act for their protection. 🌟

🐸 Western leopard toad - Endangered
🐴 Knysna seahorse - Critically endangered
🐧 African penguin - Critically endangered
🐟 Red stumpnose - Endangered

Learn more about these awesome animals here: https://www.aquarium.co.za/news/endangered-species-day-at-the-two-oceans-aquarium

It’s time for the BIG REVEAL! 🎉

Join us live on TikTok and Instagram as we find out the genders of our adorable African penguin chicks, Ember and Echo! 🐧

Don't miss this special moment with our penguin family—celebrate with us and be the first to know!

Join us and Save a Fishie this Saturday for a fun-filled morning with purpose—cleaning up plastic, protecting marine life, and supporting ocean research! 🌿

Plastic never goes away, but your impact can last forever. Bring your loved ones, your energy, and help us make a real difference for our ocean! 🌎

📍 Lagoon Beach, Milnerton
📅 This Saturday
🧤 Bring gloves, a hat, and your love for the sea!

Let’s turn the tide together—sea you there! 🤩

Meet the Porky filefish! 🐟

Spotted across the Western Indian Ocean, these fascinating creatures call shallow estuaries and coastal reefs home —often swimming solo or in pairs. 🪸

With their deep, laterally flattened bodies, long flowing fins, and rough, sandpaper-like skin, it’s no wonder they’re known as "filefish."

Interestingly, juvenile Porky filefish often drift through the open ocean alongside jellyfish —an unlikely but amazing pairing! 🪼

🌊SEMINAR 🌊

DATE: 20 May 2025, 09:00 - 10:00
VENUE: Conference Hall, Ocean Sciences Campus, B Block, Nelson Mandela University
RSVP for online or in person: https://forms.office.com/r/gXmnPHh44K

SPEAKER: Dr Judy Mann-Lang
TITLE: Communicating for Marine Conservation – Lessons from South Africa

Judy is passionate about the oceans, and inspiring people to care for nature. Throughout her career she has combined these two passions through education and training, management, leadership and research. After 30 years at the South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR), she is now building the new People and Ocean Unit for the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation. She holds degrees in Ichthyology (MSc), Business Administration (BTech) and a PhD from the University of Queensland. With the realization that without a better understanding of people we are unlikely to solve our conservation challenges, she shifted her research focus from fish to people and she now studies communication, behaviour change, socio-cultural aspects of learning and marine protected areas, in a uniquely African context. She started Marine Protected Areas Day and the African Penguin NotOnOurWatch campaign. In 1999 she co-founded the South African Marine and Coastal Educators Network (MCEN). She serves on numerous international boards and committees and serves on the UN Ocean Decade Working Group 10 and the first IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas Behaviour Change Task Team. Human behaviour fascinates her and getting out into nature keeps her inspired. Supporting the next generation of marine conservationists is now her focus.

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SPEAKER: Dr Bruce Mann
TITLE: Establishment and monitoring of the Pondoland Marine Protected Area in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Dr Bruce Mann was employed as a research scientist at the Research Institute in Durban, South Africa from 1992 to 2022 (30 years). He retired in March 2023. His research focused on the biology and management of marine linefish (i.e. fish caught by hook and line), including the importance of MPAs as a management tool. He is a keen angler and diver and is passionate about the conservation of South Africa’s marine fish species.

Happy Mother's Day to the fabulous marine moms of the ocean! 🌊🩵

From octopus moms who guard their eggs and whale moms who nurse their calves, to turtle moms who ensure their offspring stand a fighting chance, marine moms play a vital role in the survival of the next generation. The ocean is certainly full of mothers worth celebrating. 🐙🐋🐢

And to all the mothers in our broad, beautiful ocean community: Thank you for nurturing the next generation of curious, responsible, and compassionate ocean champions. 💙

Read more here:

Celebrating marine moms this Mother’s Day! It’s Mother’s Day, and the Two Oceans Aquarium is celebrating a few of the ocean’s wonderful “marine moms”!

Discover the magic beneath Cape Town’s waves! 🤿

Swim alongside colourful reef fish, elegant rays, and the occasional shark — all just off the shore. Join the Two Oceans Aquarium for Guided Shore Dives and explore lush kelp forests, fascinating shipwrecks, and thriving marine life.

With dive spots on both sides of the peninsula, every dive is a new adventure! 🐠