Heal the Bay Aquarium, previously named the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, is a private-public aquarium at a California State Beach Park managed by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors, located beneath the Santa Monica Pier, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean.

[1] As Heal the Bay's marine education, advocacy, and community science facility, it is open to the general public and attracts more than 100,000 visitors from around the world per year (approximately 15,000 are students).

Species on display include: Chordata Arthropods Molluscs Echinoderms Cnidaria In February 2009 the two-spotted octopus managed to manipulate the pipe connection that takes care of draining the water tank.

Two hundred gallons of water from the valve flooded the visitor space.

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