Some of our dolphins also starred in the Mary Kate & Ashley adventure film, "Holiday in the Sun." Chances are you have also seen the dolphins of Blue Lagoon Island. Dolphin Encounters was also involved in the making of several well-known commercials for companies such as Sony, and Visa as well as several music videos. The company provided three dolphins - to play the famous aquatic star.
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In 1996, Dolphin Encounters was chosen by Universal Studios to work on the movie "Flipper" starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood. Once again, Dolphin Encounters expanded creating a large, all natural habitat for the rescued five females and one male sea lions. In 2006, our beloved marine mammal family expanded to include six California Sea Lions that had lost their home and habitat at Marinelife Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. A modern fish preparation kitchen, photo/video lab, bathroom and changing facilities, gift shop and other amenities were also constructed. In 1995, the facility underwent a multi-million dollar expansion which enlarged the dolphin habitat to over three acres in surface space and created depths of up to 25-feet. The bottlenose dolphins were carefully moved to the beautiful natural seawater facility on Blue Lagoon Island. In order to provide the state-of-the-art care for the dolphins, the company opened a new facility on Salt Cay (Blue Lagoon Island), only 3-miles from Nassau, in The Bahamas. The Abaco facility enjoyed instant success. Soon after, six more dolphins joined our marine mammal family which created the foundation of what is today known as Dolphin Encounters.
The animals were relocated to a large all-natural seawater bottlenose dolphin habitat on Treasure Island (a.k.a. It began in 1989 when two Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins were rescued from an aquarium that closed in Nassau, Bahamas. Going to the Bahamas? Looking for the dolphin experience in a travel guide? Dolphin Encounters is one of the top tourist attractions in the Bahamas and is owned and operated by a local family.
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