Vancouver Aquarium Spotlight
Familiar Faces
The Vancouver Aquarium is a top choice for visitors from all over the world, including Hollywood. Take a look at some of the familiar faces spotted lately at the Aquarium. While here, these people learned more about the non-profit Vancouver Aquarium and our efforts to effect the conservation of aquatic life through our research and education programs.
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04.05.2010
Manmohan Waris – King of Bhangra Music and Tarannum Thind – Omni Entertainment News Presenter (Right to left)
02.27.2010
Team Australia Olympic athletes
visited the Vancouver Aquarium at the end of the Games and met Qila
while our Beluga trainers filled them in on our research study with UBC
to learn more about how belugas mothers communicate with their calves.
02.26.2010
Canadian actress Jennifer Finnigan,
best known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the popular soap opera The
Bold and the Beautiful, visited the Vancouver Aquarium with Tanya
Kim, host of eTalk on CTV. Their one-on-one encounter with Qila was a
time to have some fun while learning how Beluga’s raise their calves.
02.25.2010
Canadian figure skating world champion Elvis
Stoyko and guest Gladys Orozco visited the Vancouver Aquarium near
the end of the city’s 2010 Olympic Winter Games. They enjoyed a fun,
educational encounter with Spinnaker, one of the Aquarium’s
Pacific-white-sided dolphins. The dolphins participate in a research
study to determine how dolphins may be able to avoid becoming entangled
in fishing nets in the wild.
02.23.2010
Team Canada and Team USA Ladies Halfpipe Olympic athletes – from the left, Team USA bronze medalist Kelly Clark, Team Canada’s Mercedes Nicoll and Team USA’s Elena Hight. All three Olympians were thrilled by their unforgettable encounter with the Aquarium’s beluga Imaq.
02.22.2010
American snowboarder Michelle Gorgone
(right) visited the Vancouver Aquarium and experienced an amazing
encounter with one of the Aquarium’s Pacific white-sided dolphins,
Spinnaker. Michelle represented Team USA in Ladies Parallel Giant
Slalom during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
02.10.10
Model and mom Cindy Crawford visited
the Vancouver Aquarium on opening day of the Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympics and had a splashy time meeting the beluga whales and
discovering how Beluga mothers birth and rear their calves.
02.07.2010
Chow Mei-ching, First Lady of Taiwan –
and honourary head of the famous contemporary dance group Cloud Gate
Dance Theatre – learned more about diet research and metabolic studies
with Northern fur seals during her visit to the Aquarium. The First
Lady attended the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
02.06.2010
During the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, members of the Swiss men’s Olympic ski team enjoyed an encounter with the Vancouver Aquarium’s beluga whales, Northern fur seals and Steller sea lions. During their visit, the Swiss Olympians learned about the Aquarium’s ongoing research projects on beluga vocalization and population decline in the wild of the Northern fur seals and Steller sea lions.
10.24.2009
The Vancouver Aquarium hosted the official wrap party for the crew and cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The cast and crew of Twilight enjoyed a special look at the Aquarium after dark.
10.06.2009
Actress Jeri Ryan, best known for her role as the ex-Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager, visited the Vancouver Aquarium with her baby daughter Gisele in October 2009. They went up close and personal with our male beluga Imaq and our oldest female beluga Kavna.
09.18.2009
Vanessa Hudgens from Disney’s High School Musical movie series stopped by the Vancouver Aquarium while she was in town shooting her newest movie Sucker Punch. Vanessa and her younger sister Stella were thrilled to meet our beluga whales and discover how these amazing animals communicate with each other.
09.13.2009
Singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow visited the Vancouver Aquarium with her son Wyatt. They met the Aquarium’s male beluga Imaq and our oldest female beluga Kavna while learning how belugas whales survive in Canada’s Arctic and the challenges they face due to climate change.
08.20.2009
Vancouver Canucks’ left winger Darcy Hordichuk stopped by the Vancouver Aquarium with family and friends during the off season to meet and learn more about our conservation, education and research programs with our many amazing animals.
07.27.2009
Rock drummer Travis Barker of Blink 182 visited the Vancouver Aquarium with his family while the band was in town for a concert. The Barkers met and learned our rescued Pacific white-sided dolphins and the Steller sea lions and beluga whales.
06.11.2009
Jillian Harris, aka TV’s The Bachelorette had a splashy time meeting our male beluga whale, Imaq.
05.24.2009
Pro soccer player Jonny Magallon, defender for team Club Deportivo Guadalajara and the national soccer team of Mexico, and his wife experienced an encounter with our Pacific white-sided dolphins.
05.03.2009
Actor Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman in the popular TV series The West Wing) interacts with Imaq, a male beluga whale, while learning about the Vancouver Aquarium’s beluga whale conservation and research programs.
