Nha Trang Oceanography Institute is a research institute of marine life to be founded in 1923. The Institute is located on a tall and large area, at No. 1, Cau Da, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa province. This is the meeting point of two sea currents warm - cold, one from the North and one from equator to back up created a preeminent tropical marine regime for many floors, many layers from the water surface to the extreme deep-sea for species to settle and live. Among them, particularly the development of coral reef and ecosystems with symbiotic life, especially species of colorful fish and shapes.
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Over 80 years of operation, the Institute has contributed many achievements in the study of tropical sea to serve marine fisheries development in the country and the world. Along with the old buildings, the Institute is also investing some new buildings with modern laboratory equipment to serve the research to bring high efficiency.
Coming to Nha Trang Oceanography Institute, visitors cannot help visiting the Oceanographic Museum (an integral system of the Oceanography Institute) with more than 20,000 specimens of 4,000 sea creatures and freshwater collected and preserved for years, next to the live specimens to be stocked in the glass tank. It also has a huge whale skeleton nearly 26 meters long, 3 meters high with 48 vertebras fully restored, serving the scientific research and visitors. Particularly seaweed has more than thousands of kinds including material algae, blue-green algae, red algae, diatoms ... Then the pharmaceutical valuable seaweed, food to higher plants live in the mangroves. The primitive animals have representatives of protoplasm, coelenterata, sponges, corals ... with all images, all status. Group of crustacean has about 1,600 species; remarkable are prawns, lobster, “Quan cong” crab, “Huynh De” crab. Currently there is a giant crab stored in museum that its leg spans 1.2m. In the separate showroom of the museum, visitors also met with representatives of white dolphins and stuffed sharks. Especially skeleton of humpback whales was excavated by the Cuong Hai people, Hai Hau district, Nam Dinh province on December 18th 1994 under 1.2 m in depth and 4km from the sea as the crow flies. The skeleton is 18m long, 3m high, weigh up to 10 tons with 48 fully restored spines. Also here there is archetypal of sea cow weighing 400kg, 2,75m long caught by Ganh Dau commune fishermen, Phu Quoc Island in 2004. Outside the walkways, tourists can watch thousands of the sea species in large pool and kept in glass tanks such as sharks, sea turtles, sea snakes, mollusks...
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