The early response 'has been absolutely incredible,' said Jake Wood, the aquarium's director of marketing and public relations. 'We opened on a Wednesday in the middle of the day, and we were packed. We moved into the weekend, and we had lines that were wrapped around the building.'

In Berkeley, Calif., masked protesters smashed windows, stormed buildings and set fires recently on the campus of the University of California to shut down a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart News editor.