This week, Carver summer campers attending the Carver Community Center and Columbus Magnet School summer enrichment programs are visiting The Maritime Aquarium.
The aquarium features harbor seals, river otters, sharks, jellyfish, loggerhead turtles, and hundreds of other animals living in re-creations of their natural Long Island Sound habitats. Three touch tanks feature stingrays, nurse sharks, crabs, sea stars, moon jellies and other coastal creatures.
In addition to its exhibits, The Maritime Aquarium offers educational programs to Carver kids in our after-school programs throughout the school year and year-round cruises on its 64-foot research vessel R/V Spirit of the Sound.
The Maritime Aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science, and environmental education.
The "Maritime Center" opened July 16, 1988. The name was changed to the "Maritime Aquarium" in July 1996 to emphasize the live animals featured there.
Carver’s CEO, Novelette Peterkin, is a member of The Maritime Aquarium’s Board of Directors.
The image to the left is of the new exhibit. at The Maritime Aquarium.