[BCMA] Explore BC's Underwater Paradise from the MMBC!

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Amazing Sea Stories - The Maritime Museum of BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12th, 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. Doors open at 6:30pm. Cost is $12 for General Admission; $10 for Seniors and Students and free for MMBC Members and children 12 & under.


The month of March brings us below the surface once again as we join outdoor adventure Travel Writer/Photographer Barb Roy on Wednesday, March 28th. Relax as Barb takes you on a wonderful 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!

Barb Roy lives in British Columbia with her husband, Wayne Grant, and works as a freelance photojournalist for dive, travel and outdoor adventure magazines around the world. When not away on assignments, Barb works as the Marketing Director for the Dive Industry Association of British Columbia, a Not-For-Profit society representing BC's dive industry, giving presentations and letting others know how nice the diving is in our beautiful Province.

Following in April, discover all of British Columbia's sunken archeological treasures with Jacques Marc of the Underwater Archeological Society of BC. Learn of the thousands of ships which have sunk off our coast as well as thousands of years of First Nations history located in the water just off old village sites.

Spend the evening with Jacques as he guides you through the experiences and discoveries of the UASBC. Along the way he will introduce you to some of the technology used to search for wrecks and introduce you to some of the unique submerged cultural resources of BC.

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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