The saying “slippery as an eel” is extremely apt and much patience is required when gathering these animals from the sea. Our divers collected these giant honeycomb moray eels using a large, transparent, heavy-duty plastic bag, a bottle of anaesthetic and some pilchards.
The eels were tempted into the bag with the pilchards, before being sedated and quickly and quietly taken to the surface where they were transferred into a large holding tank on the boat.
Remember to buy your tickets online in order to save and skip the queue. We also offer great membership packages so your aspiring marine biologist can get a head start on discovering the secrets of our sea life.
Back to school: discounts for school groups in January
The Two Oceans Aquarium’s Environmental Education Centre is offering a great back-to-school opportunity for teachers and learners. If you book a child group of 10 or more learners for a visit to the Aquarium in January 2012, you’ll pay just R20 per child.
A wildly stimulating marine experience awaits all learners at the Aquarium and teachers might end up leaving with a budding marine biologist (or 10) on their hands but, at the very least, you’ll have oceans of new inspiration for any subject.
This is a wonderful start-of-year opportunity for students to meet their cooperative groups and for teachers to introduce a marine theme to their mathematics, natural science, life science and literacy programmes.
Click here to read a few testimonials from teachers.
Details
The offer is valid for groups of 10 or more children.
To book please contact Carrin Blake on +27 (0)21 418 3823 or email schools@aquarium.co.za
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