Ocean Park – Giant Tortoise Environment

Oceanis collaborated closely with the Ocean Park life sciences and engineering team to ensure our design would streamline operational management whilst providing the optimum natural environment for the animals.

Ocean Park’s Aldabra giant tortoise family comes from a group that is the second largest tortoise in the world, with an average life span of 100 years.

Aldabra tortoises love water holes and shallow ponds.  Oceanis, in creating a balance between designing an experience that visitors would enjoy and the animals’ welfare, approached this project with a focus on water health as vital to the attraction’s success.

Oceanis collaborated with the wider Leigh and Orange team to develop a specialty water treatment system that would create an appealing tortoise natural environment attractive to park visitors, and offer a natural habitat in which the tortoises thrive, as well as being efficient and economical for Ocean Park to manage.

Having worked with the OPC team previously, we were familiar with OPC’s life sciences and engineering preferred approaches.  We therefore collaborated closely with the OPC team to ensure our design was informed by the team’s preferred arrangements, brands and styles of equipment to streamline operational management whilst providing the optimum environment for the animals. 

Understanding that water treatment equipment is expensive to procure and complex to install, Oceanis created specifications for quality, longevity and hydraulic construction which enabled contractors to price with confidence, enabling the project to be constructed on time and on budget.

The highly natural environment created at Ocean Park is now a great contribution to the education and conservation of these special animals, supporting their long term future.