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June 30th, 2009

Earth breathing - Tsunamis on the move

06/30/09

New Bedford - heraldnews.com Independence Day is a day off from work for most of us, but come this Fourth of July, the Ocean Explorium will not only be open for business, it will kick off a new seven-days-a-week visitors’ schedule.

Renovation work has been in high gear at the Explorium, 174 Union St., in preparation for new live animal and sea life exhibits, said Explorium Director Mark Smith.

The new exhibits include a large living coral reef, focusing on the issue of coral bleaching and global warming; scallops; jellyfish; anemone fish, also known as “Nemo” fish; and sea horses.

Smith said some of the sea life will be caught locally and others, such as jellyfish and sea horses, were donated from the New England Aquarium in Boston. Other exhibits - including the coral reefs - were originally from the South Pacific Islands, with some from the Red Sea.

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