History
The park was founded by Fred D. Coppock and Captain W.B. Gray and was the second marine-life attraction in South Florida. Upon its grand opening in 1955, it was the largest marine-life attraction in the world.
From 1963 through 1967, eighty eight episodes of the 1960s TV show "Flipper" and two movies starring Flipper were filmed at the Miami Seaquarium.
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