Happy World 🌎 Octopus 🐙 Day from Maui Ocean Center! To celebrate we thought we would share a behind the scenes staff encounter with one of these intelligent and beautiful creatures 💙 Our Day Octopus is very tactile when she gets fed, and gets very excited when meeting new staff! Watch until the end to see how she shows it… 🤭 FACT: An octopus has over 500 million neurons, with 60% of them concentrated within its eight arms. Each arm can independently react to environmental stimuli and carry o

It takes a lot of courage to ask the love of you life "the big question", especially when you're surrounded by sharks, stingrays, and giant trevally... But on January 18, not only did Joshua surprise his shark-enthusiast girlfriend Brandy with a Shark Dive Maui excursion, he proposed to her - and she said YES! Mahalo nui Josh and Brandy for allowing us to be a part of your special day. You are the FIRST couple in our Shark Dive Maui program's history to propose TOGETHER while diving inside the e

41 reactions |  Happy manō Monday from #MauiOceanCenter! View #Sharks live from our Open Ocean underwater web-cam feed on our website 麗  麗  - 9 Grey Reef Sharks 5 Sandbar Sharks 4 Blacktip Reef Sharks 2 Whitetip Reef Sharks 1 Tiger Shark - #SharkSelfie #Hawaii #Maui #SharksAreFriends | Maui Ocean Center, The Aquarium of Hawaii | Facebook