Manchester Sea Life offers shark tank walks

SharkManchester Sea Life Centre will offer visitors the chance to walk in its central aquarium with sharks when it opens next month.

The Sea Trek experience – which includes a ten-minute underwater walk with fish, sharks and a sea turtle – costs £60 per person, or £45.90 for holders of a Merlin Annual Pass.

It is being marketed as “Europe’s first sea bed walk” and features custom-made breahing aperatus in the form of helmets which enclose the head.

The attraction, located in Manchester’s Trafford Centre shopping precint, opens to the public on 6 June.