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At the Thomasville Community Resource Center on Wednesday, approximately 60 children had a grand old time looking at the creatures in Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory’s SeaMobile travel trailer.
Before heading out to the parking lot to see the traveling exhibit, students received a lecture and slide show on sea turtles from Cypress Rudloe, a director of Gulf Specimen, and got to pick up horseshoe crabs that were brought into the classroom.
Largely paid for by a grant from the Williams Family Foundation, the $80,000 plus SeaMobile is a 20-foot trailer designed with life support systems that bring the seas to schools. It has five large touch tanks, four Plexiglas viewing tanks and two microscopes that blow microscopic sea life up on large television monitors. The life support system keeps the water clean and the fish happy and almost has the complexity of a space shuttle.
See Saturday's edition for more details.
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Students enjoy a hands-on experience with the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory on Wednesday. Submitted photo
February 3, 2012
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