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The crew and research team on-board the 72ft Sea Dragon expedition ship are currently undertaking two expeditions from the Island to find out more about the Sargasso Sea.
Our turtles thrill veterinary students from North Carolina
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Bermuda has won high praise from a veterinary science professor who found the Island a perfect laboratory for studying semi-tropical ecology.
Teaching everyone to love toads
Monday, March 11, 2013
Former biology professor Jamie Bacon quickly discovered that not everyone shared her love of toads.
BAMZ roof work may mean releasing some animals into the wild
Friday, March 01, 2013
Some of the Aquarium’s residents will be released into the wild later this year to make way for refurbishments.
BAMZ to get new roof
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Bermuda’s Aquarium is to get a new roof, Environment and Planning Minister Richards announced.
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Simon Jones
Published Jul 16, 2016 at 8:00 am (Updated Jul 16, 2016 at 1:10 am)
State-of-the-art technology: Ocean Tech will bring together marine scientists and submersible
technologies, such as a remote environmental monitoring unit pictured being launched in Florida in 2007
A global marine research project that will begin in Bermuda has received its first financial donation from a local firm.
Ocean Tech, which was launched at the beginning of the month, will bring together the world’s top marine scientists and state-of-the-art submersible technologies to gather crucial information to save the world’s oceans.
This week the project’s organisers announced that they had received financial support from Seacrest Capital Group Limited as well as the Atlantic Conservation Partnership.
Henrik Schröder, an early investor in the Ocean Vet series and partner at Seacrest Capital Group Limited, said: “For us it is a natural extension of what we started with Ocean Vet.
“We are offering our full support to the Ocean Tech project and their mission to justify marine protected areas in Bermuda and around the planet.
“I am impressed by the speed and scale of their data-acquisition objectives and believe that Ocean Tech is a platform that can help to achieve the UN’s sustainable development target of conserving at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas by 2020.”
Richard Winchell, the ACP president, added: “We’re proud to be supporting Ocean Tech’s first mission in Bermuda.”
Andrew Smith, Ocean Tech’s executive director, told The Royal Gazette he was “thrilled” to receive the first local donation.
The Ocean Tech team will begin work on island next June and will join several local marine experts. They will be in Bermuda until September 2017 when the project will be temporarily shut down for the winter.
They will then return to the island between March and May 2018 for the humpback whale season before moving to the United States and teaming up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association in Marine Mammal Sanctuaries.