The crews used large networks, water filled with water and trucks to transport hundreds of rivers, sea turtles, sea, roads and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & aquarium.
Over the past two months, marine animals have been removed from the island that is difficult to reach and moved to a completely new center, where Mote believes that it will be able to live in more authentic habitats and make it easy for the public to learn about marine science. The Mother Science Aquarium, east of Sarasota, is scheduled to open directly to the audience on Wednesday.
“We have created new original habitats for all our types of marine life, including exit sheep habitats and homes for some of our latest animals, such as giant Pacific octopus and penguins,” said Kevin Cooper, Vice President of Communications and Strategic Initiatives at Mote.
He said: “We also add more opportunities to learn about the marine sciences for our guests, children of schools and adult learners, and we offer new opportunities for citizen scientists to participate in marine sciences through communication.”
It was increasingly difficult for visitors to make their way through bridges from the mainland to the facility on the island of Sarasota, where it was 45 years ago. So it was logical to move pelvic and education centers in the east while maintaining the research part of the facility on Barrier Island.
In July, Mote was closed in front of the audience to prepare until the move begins. In August, animal transport sets began to the new facility.
Cooper said he educated Mote more than 350,000 guests every year, and this is expected to double in the new center. It costs 130 million dollars for construction.
It took time to make sure that habitats in the new Mote sea facility have the right water chemistry and microbial societies before the animals arrive.
“In the process of this transition, each different type requires a different type of transportation techniques in order to transfer it from one facility to another,” said Ivan Parinskis, Mote’s assistant vice president. “When moving sharks and fish, you should do this in water with a lot of oxygen and nominate them.”
They transported many fish and sharks at night, when there was less traffic. Sea sheep requires air -conditioned box trucks designed specifically for sea sheep transport. Mote has a dedicated team to capture and rehabilitate sheep.
“Food foxes are a little simpler because they have specially designed rolls that are somewhat similar to those that a dog or cat puts,” said Parinskis. He added that they transferred them in air -conditioned vehicles.
Employees watched every animal during the trip to the new center. Once he reached the new site, they supervised Aquarists and veterinarians on the adaptation process, as they gradually gradually to the new environment.
“Through the process of transferring this scale, it takes strict monitoring, commitment to a strict protocol, complex coordination, and the highest level of care,” said Cooper. “We constantly monitor each animal for any health or behavioral deformities throughout the operation and then to ensure successful acclimatization.”
“In this facility, we will have more than 400 different species that will consist of several thousand individual animals,” said Parinskis.
Officials said that the death of traffic is dedicated to marine sciences, education and overwhelming public expertise. It contains three teaching laboratories STEM: biomedic, microbiology and immunity; The marine and coastal environment; Ocean engineering, technology, robots and sensory development.
It will also provide free practical experiments for about 70,000 students from Sarasota and Mataei district.
Mote, founded in 1955 by Dr. Yugini Clark, also runs the nursery in Florida, which helps restore damaged coral reefs.
“I think the most important thing we want to take away is a better understanding of marine science and how the Moat Marine laboratory contributes to expanding the knowledge of the marine environment in the world,” said Parinskis. “It is great. Within this basin, the scientific aquarium of science, it is our duty to represent this science for the public, to translate it so that the general public can understand exactly what the trench scholars do and how we continue to benefit from understanding the marine environment.”