UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Guests at SeaWorld Orlando get up close and personal with mysterious beluga whales at Wild Arctic s Beluga Interaction Program. Participants 13 years and older engage in interactions that include...
View ArticleSHAMU EXPRESS
SeaWorld s first kid-friendly roller coaster, the Shamu Express 28 parents and children in killer-whale themed cars down 800 feet of track at 28 mph in Shamu s Happy Harbor. Other family friendly...
View ArticleDRENCHING DROP
Adventurers drop sixty-feet, nearly straight down, as this water coaster rise hurls them into the dark and mysterious depths of Atlantis. With more than 116,000 gallons of water, Journey to Atlantis...
View ArticleCOLORS OF THE HORIZON
Showing daily at SeaWorld Orlando, Blue Horizons unites visions of Broadway with majestic dolphins and false killer whales, spirited performers and exotic birds. Draped in an elaborate costume and...
View ArticlePenguin Encounter at SeaWorld Orlando
No. 50 on Dewayne Bevil's Top 50 Orlando Theme Park Attractions. Penguin Encounter, SeaWorld Orlando. Tuxedoed creatures swim, stare back at you. Check out the puffins there also.
View ArticleShark Encounter at SeaWorld Orlando
No. 40 on Dewayne Bevil's Top 50 Orlando Theme Park Attractions. Shark Encounter, SeaWorld Orlando. Exhibit pulls guests through a tube running beneath the predators.
View ArticleClyde and Seamore Take Pirate Island at SeaWorld Orlando
No. 26 on Dewayne Bevil's Top 50 Orlando Theme Park Attractions. Clyde and Seamore Take Pirate Island, SeaWorld Orlando. Scene-stealing sea lions in comic show. Seasonal nighttime version lampoons...
View ArticleJourney to Atlantis, SeaWorld Orlando
Journey to Atlantis' trek through the temple mixes wet and dry thrills at SeaWorld Orlando. Vessel: Boats with four rows of two seats, single lap bar. (Height requirement: 42 inches) Splashdown...
View ArticleKraken, SeaWorld Orlando
It's high and mighty, featuring the longest drop in Central Florida. It's smooth, floorless sailing through a dizzying series of directional changes, dips and inversions. The subterranean parts are...
View ArticleJohnny the polar bear dies at SeaWorld Orlando
Johnny, a 24-year-old polar bear, died after a physical examination at SeaWorld Orlando on July 31, 2014. He had lived at the Orlando theme park since 1995.
View ArticleClyde and Seamore take Pirate Island
The sea lion comedy show at SeaWorld closed Aug. 10, 2014, but a new revamped sea-lion show called "Clyde & Seamore's Sea Lion High" will debut Spring 2015.
View ArticleCentral Florida man survives lightning strike after passerby performs CPR:...
A man in Brevard County was struck by lightning and survived after a man who was driving by performed CPR on him.
View ArticleOrlando hotelier Harris Rosen announces ‘substantial’ layoffs
“Never in the 46-year history of my company would I have envisioned such a drastic decision,” Harris Rosen said in a statement.
View ArticleMost Orange deputies want to pull endorsement of Sheriff John Mina, union...
About a month from the Orange County sheriff primary election, hundreds of deputies said they did not support their incumbent Sheriff John Mina, with many also expressing widespread morale issues at...
View ArticleHurricane center says 80% chance for tropical system off U.S. coast
Chances are good the 2020 hurricane season will get its sixth tropical system as the National Hurricane Center is tracking an area of low pressure over the southeast U.S. that could move over the warm...
View ArticleMacbeth Studio uses PPP cash to help nonprofits, small businesses with...
Macbeth Studio is giving away photography and videography services in an equivalent amount to the PPP funding it received to help companies and organizations that have been hit by the COVID-19...
View ArticleZillow Offers is buying homes in Orlando again, but with less personal contact
Zillow Offers, which buys homes directly from owners and then resells them, announced it has resumed buying property in Orlando.
View ArticleCoronavirus hot spot Florida reports 120 new deaths; toll passes 4,000
Florida, one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots, reported 8,935 new cases Thursday for a total of 232,718 and 120 new fatalities — the most yet — to push the death toll past 4,000, to 4,009. The...
View ArticleDisney reopens: Annual passholders preview 2 theme parks
Annual passholders streamed through the gates of Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom on Thursday as the theme parks took another step in their phased reopenings.
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