The Caribbean Sea Expedition
(Children’s Library Title: “Our Fishes of the Caribbean Adventure”)
Ever wanted to play hide and seek…Under the Sea?
In this presentation your students will discover the wacky and strange ways fish play “hide and seek” under the sea!
A funny and fascinating look at amazing coral reef fish adaptations in predator/prey relationships in a colorful Caribbean coral reef environment! In this presentation we bring our many years of working underwater studying fish behavior on Caribbean Sea coral reefs to reveal unique ways fish are adapted to their environment.
The program begins with a humorous look at how fish play “hide and seek” in the underwater game of survival. Students are chosen from the audience to become fish in the underwater game of “hide and seek”. The four “fish” hide and the audience (the “school of fish”) sees the different ways that fish hide underwater. After this amusing demonstration, we show the high-tech Aqua Lung® SCUBA equipment we use to explore the underwater world of the Caribbean Sea, including our awesome underwater scooters!
After the demonstrations, undersea explorers, Wayne and Karen Brown, then take your students on their exciting tour of the Caribbean Sea’s underwater world via a fascinating 4K digital multimedia presentation.
Our expedition begins when your students join us onboard our expedition boat in the Caribbean Sea. Using their imaginations, and our beautiful under-water videography, your students jump in the water and find out what it would be like to accompany the Browns on their expedition scuba dive. Your students follow the Browns as they zoom around the coral reef on their underwater scooters and discover the incredible variety in this underwater world.
Your students discover the funny and fascinating ways fish play “hide and seek” in the colorful coral reef environment!
As they explore the undersea environment, your students meet some interesting inhabitants, from the smallest to the largest and from the most docile to the most dangerous. Students discover how these marine creatures are adapted for survival in the undersea environment. The symbiotic relationships between different creatures are revealed. They learn how fishes protect themselves from predators and how some fishes search for food. Near the end of our dive we come face-to-face with some of the so-called “dangerous” marine animals such as stingrays, barracuda, moray eels, and sharks!
After the multi-image presentation, meet “Sally”, our 8-foot tall inflatable female sea horse as we reveal unique anatomical features of sea horses.
If time allows, at the end of the presentation, a brief time is set aside to answer some of your students’ questions.
