The Maui Ocean Center is a highly modern aquarium that brings visitors and residents of Maui up close and personal with a fascinating underwater world. Visitors to the Maui Ocean Center will enjoy a combination of indoor and outdoor pools, with a focus on researching and discovering the ocean and all its complexity. Meet curious garden eels face to face, check out the unusual frogfish and the shy octopus, watch giant stingrays, or feel the flat spines on a light orange slaty sea urchin in the petting pool. Dive into the deep blue, and get a sensational glimpse into life in the open ocean. Dancing, transparent, and sensitive jellyfish, and awe-inspiring sharks, will swim right past your nose as you walk through an acrylic tunnel.