Merlin Entertainments Group, the UK-based company behind Madame Tussauds, the London Eye and LEGOLAND, has announced plans to open a £10 million SEA Life Aquarium in Phoenix, Arizona, in the USA.

Phoenix SEA Life will be a 26,000 square foot development with 12 different habitat zones housing over 30 separate display tanks.

It has been designed as a highly themed environment that transports visitors into an undersea world, educates them and provides close encounters with a vast array of creatures.

Special group discounts and tours will be available at the attraction when it opens in spring 2010.

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