For most guests, the highlight of a visit to Discovery Cove will be the rare opportunity to swim and play with a beautiful bottlenose dolphin. The dolphin-swim experience begins with a brief orientation, after which 6-8 guests and a trainer wade into shallow water for their introduction to a dolphin. Guests learn about dolphins’ behavior, get to know the animals and discover how Discovery Cove’s trainers use hand signals and positive reinforcement to communicate with them. Taking the relationship one step further, guests swim and play with the dolphins. Other Discovery Cove attractions allow guests to safely experience the marine world and its amazing animals.

Swimming with dolphins is the centerpiece of a daylong adventure at Discovery Cove, located adjacent to SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. Interacting with a bottlenose dolphin is just one of the several experiences in this exotic tropical oasis that will stay with you for a lifetime. At Discovery Cove you will snorkel through colorful reefs teeming with thousands of tropical fish, explore underwater shipwrecks and mysterious grottos, and lazily swim down a tropical river with rocky waterfalls and a freshwater lagoon. Snorkelers glide among stingrays - surprisingly gentle creatures that don't really sting at all, but do grow up to 4 feet in diameter - and stare down dangerous sharks and barracuda - as you safely swim within inches of them.