Breakfast with the Sharks

Early risers secure exclusive morning access to the 135,000-gallon shark habitat before the general public arrives at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. Attendees eat a catered breakfast adjacent to the glass while watching the animal husbandry team conduct their morning feeding and training protocols with the resident nurse, sandbar, and blacktip reef sharks. A staff biologist provides a live narration of the procedures, explaining the dietary requirements and target-training methods used to monitor the health of the apex predators. The event provides a rare, quiet atmosphere to observe the facility's largest specimens and ask direct questions of the marine care staff.