[BCMA] Discover is Artifical Reefs are Paradise or Pollution!

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Amazing Sea Stories - The Maritime Museum of BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 6th, 2012

Explore our ocean with the Maritime Museum of BC through our What Lies Beneath Lecture Series. Every fourth Wednesday from 7-9pm, we will host a presentation on various topics that currently affect this underwater environment. These presentations will feature key-note speakers who are active every day in understanding, studying and monitoring our ocean.


Coming Wednesday, February 22nd, explore the world of artificial reefs with Howie Robins, President and co-founder of the Artificial Reef Society of BC. Delve into ARSBC's latest project the HMCS Annapolis - the last of the great steam driven destroyers. Learn about the great complexities of creating ship to reef projects. As well, discover the myriad of detailed planning needed for large complex projects and what they have produced to return to our coastal waters.

The ARSBC has become a tourism success story in Canada and around the world.  In British Columbia you will understand the impact of these "man-made reefs" and how they have helped to enhance BC's marine ecology, scuba dive tourism industry and the economic benefits to BC's coastal communities.

Stay beneath the waves with the next presentation following on March 28th. Join outdoor adventure Travel Writer/Photographer, Barb Roy<http://www.barbroyphotography.com/> as she takes you on a journey around British Columbia's underwater paradise. Let her introduce you to six-gill sharks, giant Pacific octopus, friendly wolf-eels, colourful rockfish and an array of invertebrate life around coastal BC. The unusual microbialite formations of Pavilion Lake and the wild salmon of Adams Lake will stir your sense of exploration!

For a full list of all the upcoming lectures, please visit our website at mmbc.bc.ca and search under Featured Exhibits, or call 250-385-4222. Children under 12 are now free at the Museum!

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MaryAnne Dieno
Marketing, Events and Communications Coordinator
250-385-4222, ext. 113
mdieno at mmbc.bc.ca<mailto:mdieno at mmbc.bc.ca>
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