BUEI Donates DVDs To Schools, Libraries
Today [June 8] the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] presented Bermuda’s public schools and libraries with a set of four DVD’s each.
Minister of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy Walter Roban said, “It gives me great pleasure to be here today, as the Minister responsible for the Environment, for the presentation of these educational DVD’s, which are focused on Bermuda’s unique marine ecosystem.”
“The fact that today is also World Oceans Day – which celebrates ocean conservation efforts among our global community – makes today’s presentation all the more appropriate.”
Pictured below are BUEI Chairman Jack Ward; Minister of Community Development Michael Weeks; Marine Explorer Teddy Tucker; Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith; and Minister Roban.
The DVD’s donated were:
Keepers of the Reef
- Synopsis: The film explores human-induced and natural changes in coral reefs using historic shipwrecks as markers in time. Primarily shot in Bermuda, the film highlights underwater explorer Teddy Tucker, and covers coral reefs and the threats facing them worldwide.
Nightlife: Creatures of the Deep
- Synopsis: By documenting a night dive in the open ocean 20 miles off the coast of Bermuda, this film explores the deep-sea. The technology, the animals, and the importance of the deep-sea are in this film using Bermuda footage and a collection of amazing deep-sea footage from around the world.
Oceans in Motion
- Synopsis: Provides an engaging insight into the nature of sea level rise, how the sea level curve is generated and the impact of rising sea levels on our lives. By radiocarbon dating cedar stumps around Bermuda, in the ocean in depths from 33 feet up to 8 feet give an indication of how fast the sea level has risen in the last 7,300 years.
Teddy Tucker: Adventure is My Life
- Synopsis: Follows Teddy Tucker’s life from childhood, and what inspired him to lead the exciting and interesting life that he has as a historian, lecturer, artist and explorer, up to present day.
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