World’s Largest Aquarium Opens Amid Controversy in Singapore

Although it's nothing at all like donning a mask and exploring the earth's vast underwater environments in person, there is something magical about visiting an <a href="http://inhabitat.com/the-radisson-blu-hotels-82-foot-aquadom-aquarium-brings-sea-life-and-scuba-diving-to-berlin/">aquarium</a> - and Singapore just opened the world's largest. The S.E.A. Aquarium and Adventure Cove Waterpark at Singapore's <a href="http://mlp.rwsentosablog.com/sample-page/">Resorts World Sentosa</a> features 100,000 marine mammals from 800 species, including more than two dozen captive Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins - which recently sparked a heated controversy.

The world's largest aquarium recently opened in Singapore

100,000 marine mammals from 800 different species are on display.

Hammerhead sharks and other non-endangered shark species are among the animals on display behind the world's largest viewing panel.

Visitors can go diving and snorkeling.

The Marine Life Park has come under fire, however, for capturing 25 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins from the wild.

Park officials defend their decision to capture dolphins, along with other species, as a conservation effort.