Blue Planet Aquarium Penny Smasher - Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK. - Penny Smashers on Waymarking.com

The Blue Planet Aquarium is a marine and freshwater aquarium located by the Cheshire Oaks retail and leisure complex in Ellesmere Port.

It was opened by the Queen in July 1998,and at the time it was the largest aquarium in the UK, and is still the largest in North West England.

The building was designed by Manchester-based Buttress Fuller Alsop architects to resemble the shape of a crashing wave. It was built by Cheshire-based developer Deep Sea Leisure (now owned by Aspro Ocio Group),at a cost of £12 million.

The aquarium contains more than 100 living displays, different exhibits from around the world with many varieties of marine and freshwater fish, including more types of shark than anywhere else in Britain. It also keeps a variety of amphibians reptiles and mammals.
You can watch the dive team feed the fish - all in front of the sharks at the awesome Aquatheatre window.
The aquarium's shark dive won the Visit Chester and Cheshire Awards 2010 category for Best Tourism Experience of the Year.

The 70m-long underwater tunnel allows a close up view of the giant Sand Tiger sharks, or nurse sharks, zebra sharks and the smallest sharks the Black Tips.
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The souvenir penny smasher is machine 3, located at the entrance to The Frog Zone.
This is a 4 die Penny Press machine. It takes £1 coin and a penny for each coin.
Each coin has a dotted border and the capitalized text, 'Blue Planet Aquarium'
The coin designs available are:
1) Shark
2) Two Seahorses facing each other
3) Nemo (Clown Fish)
4) My Lucky Penny (vertical) - horse shoe and four leaf clover
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Denomination: Penny Number of Designs: Four

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