Why you should experience Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium is an extraordinary marine gallery where Downtown Atlanta's conservation leadership, ocean exploration, engineering innovation, and aquatic biodiversity create one of the world's most awe-inspiring aquarium experiences.
Set inside Georgia Aquarium along Baker Street near Centennial Olympic Park and just steps from Tropical Diver, this grand gallery immerses visitors within a vast open-ocean habitat where whale sharks, manta rays, massive groupers, sharks, and thousands of pelagic fish glide through crystal-clear waters surrounding a dramatic underwater tunnel. Towering acrylic viewing windows, endless schools of marine life, and panoramic ocean vistas create an atmosphere where the scale of the world's oceans becomes vividly tangible. Every encounter demonstrates the extraordinary diversity of life sustained by the open sea. The result is an experience defined by engineering excellence, marine conservation, and one of the world's greatest aquarium exhibits.
What you should know about Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium.
Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium is best known for housing more than 6.3 million gallons of saltwater within one of the largest single aquatic exhibits in the world, a habitat specifically engineered to accommodate whale sharks, the largest fish species on Earth. Opened with Georgia Aquarium in 2005 and built through sponsorship from The Home Depot, the exhibit recreates the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the world's second-largest coral reef network extending more than 700 miles along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Measuring approximately 284 feet long, 126 feet wide, and 20 to 30 feet deep, the habitat supports more than 50 species and thousands of marine animals, including manta rays, zebra sharks, sandbar sharks, giant goliath groupers, green sea turtles, cownose rays, and large schools of jacks, snappers, and reef fishes. Visitors experience the habitat through a 100-foot underwater acrylic tunnel, 4,574 square feet of viewing windows, and one of the largest aquarium viewing panels in the world, measuring approximately 23 feet high, 61 feet wide, and 2 feet thick while weighing nearly 185 tons. The gallery has become internationally recognized for advancing whale shark husbandry, veterinary medicine, nutrition, conservation research, and public education while helping establish Georgia Aquarium as one of the world's leading marine science institutions.
Beyond its extraordinary scale, Ocean Voyager functions as the scientific centerpiece of Georgia Aquarium by supporting research on whale sharks, manta rays, and other large pelagic species that remain difficult to study in the open ocean. Aquarium biologists continually monitor animal health, water chemistry, nutrition, and behavioral enrichment while collaborating with universities and international conservation organizations to improve understanding of migratory marine species. The exhibit's immense life-support system circulates millions of gallons of filtered seawater through sophisticated mechanical and biological filtration, ultraviolet sterilization, and temperature-control systems that recreate stable oceanic conditions for one of the world's most complex managed marine habitats. Immersive architecture, cutting-edge aquarium engineering, marine biology, and global conservation combine to create one of North America's most influential ocean exhibits.
How to fold Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium into your trip.
Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium is best experienced as the marine centerpiece of an exploration through Georgia Aquarium.
Begin at Tropical Diver, where vibrant coral reef ecosystems introduce the remarkable biodiversity of the world's oceans before exploring Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium. Continue to Cold Water Quest, whose polar habitats provide a compelling contrast to the gallery's warm open-ocean environment. Conclude at Sharks! Predators of the Deep, where one of North America's largest shark exhibits provides a memorable finale celebrating the remarkable relationship between apex predators, coral reefs, and ocean conservation that defines Georgia Aquarium. The progression moves naturally from tropical reefs to the open ocean before concluding through one of the aquarium's defining predator exhibits, revealing why Ocean Voyager at Georgia Aquarium remains one of the world's essential marine experiences.
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