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Read coverage of the Aquarium's exciting work

Recent news coverage

Harbor seal Barney looking up and smiling.

Various outlets

Coverage: Saying goodbye to Barney

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Seattle Magazine

Seattle Aquarium names new CEO

Seattle Refined

Let’s Go Places: Hanging out with the fish

Bull kelp viewed upwards from underwater. Sunlight is highlighting through the oceans surface above.

FOX 13

Protecting the depths: Bull kelp could become WA’s state marine forest

Sea otter Sekiu laying on her back and laying with ice.

KOMO 4

Seattle Aquarium’s beloved sea otter Sekiu celebrates her 13th birthday with seafood cake

Oysters carved into the concrete floor of the Ocean Pavilion's rooftop.

The Seattle Times

Recentering Indigenous knowledge and design on the waterfront

An underwater diver dressed up as Santa.

Reuters

A diving Santa brings festive cheer to the Seattle Aquarium

A family looking at a diver dressed as Santa.

FOX 13

Diving Santa returns to the Aquarium

A diver dressed as Santa floating in the Seattle Aquarium's Window on Washington Waters habitat.

The Seattle Times

Diving Santa brings holiday spirit to Seattle Aquarium

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