The Region - News from Feb. 16, 1987

In the wake of the closing of Marineland, San Diego’s Sea World has offered to spend $175,000 to build a Los Angeles-based center for beached and stranded sea animals similar to one that has been operating at the Palos Verdes Peninsula attraction. Lanny H. Cornell, Sea World’s zoological director, said he hoped a 20,000-square-foot site could be found for the proposed center and added, “It doesn’t have to be elaborate. We have been in the stranded sea animal business for years and we think it’s important for Los Angeles to have a (similar) center.” Cornell repeated earlier assurances that Sea World planned to provide a “congenial and healthy” home for Marineland’s animals, which are scheduled to be moved there sometime next month.