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Visit The Deep this May half-term for an action-packed week filled with fun, family-friendly activities! This is the second year The Deep has collaborated with teams from the RNLI and HM Coastguard

Monday 6th May marked the end of the 2024 City Nature Challenge (CNC), a global bioblitz event – with a bit of competition! - which saw almost 700 cities recording nature in their area. The recording

Currently, there are more than 44,000 species facing extinction. That’s 41% of amphibians, 37% of sharks and rays, and 36% of reef corals, plus many more species. Organisations such as the

Honorary Alderman David Gemmell OBE (1940-2024) was Chairman of The Deep from its inception to the time of his sad passing at the end of March. We feel this loss tremendously. Many tributes have been

Work has recently commenced on an exciting new project, thanks to The Nature Hubs Fund! Recent polling from Hubbub has revealed that 78% of people feel better when spending time around nature. Despite

The Deep is an education, conservation charity and public aquarium based in Hull city centre. It has proudly remained financially independent since opening in 2002 and has been enjoyed by nearly 10

The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is an annual nature-recording event, in which a number of cities and regions globally participate. This year, the challenge is taking place on the 26th April- 29th

The Deep is immensely saddened to announce the passing of our Chairman, Honorary Alderman David Gemmell OBE. We give thanks to his tremendous vision to create The Deep and then dedicate almost 30

In a quest to be crowned the 2024 Penguin Champion, 48 penguins representing 10 different species have been nominated from zookeepers and aquarists around the world eager to go head-to-head in

For over 10 years, local volunteers organised by the Tansy Beetle Action Group (or TBAG for short) have been pacing the banks of the River Ouse, counting beetles one by one on clumps of Tansy – its

We are delighted to now be using Notpla packaging for some of our products in The Deep’s café. Notpla’s range of seaweed-based food containers are carefully engineered to eliminate waste. Their

Each year, around autumn time, hundreds of sea turtles are found stranded along the many miles of beaches in Cape Cod. Seasonal changes, as well as climate change, cause this annual phenomenon. In