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Features 30 foot long clear acrylic tunnel sits on the bottom of the 132,000 gallon Caribbean Reef aquarium



Date Completed 1988

Project Details

The Audubon Institute’s Aquarium of the Americas offers underwater and on-land exhibits for visitors. RPT produced some of the acrylic windows seen at the Institute. A 30 foot long (9.1m) clear R-Cast™ acrylic tunnel sits on the bottom of the 132,000 gallon (500,000 liter) Caribbean Reef aquarium and allows visitors to view vivid, tropical marine life in a way they never have before. RPT also supplied large viewing windows for watching sharks in the Gulf of Mexico exhibit. The windows measure 18.3 feet long x 14.4 feet high (5.6m L x 4.4m H) and are 9.7 inches thick (246mm) in order to withstand the water pressure from that depth.

RPT also supplied viewing windows for the penguin exhibit. This exhibit features African black-footed penguins and Rockhopper penguins, both of which are warm-water species.