Sea Monster Fun at COAST and World Oceans' Day

Following on from last year's successful COAST festival of visual arts, we took part again in arty activities at the aquarium over the course of the festival weekend in May. This time we created a sea monster which was to play a starring role in our World Oceans' Day event on 7th June, and we had monster fun in the process (check www.coastfestival.org.uk)

World Oceans' Day had a special theme of sea monsters, myths and legends and all the activities around the aquarium that day were somehow linked with stories from the sea. There were several highlights, one of which was a performance from the fantastic dancing sea monster that had been created during the COAST arts festival . The monster was named ‘Stinger’ and was paraded around the car park, before performing a choreographed dance with the local group Phoenix and the Shimmies. It was great to see the monster brought to life and leaving a trail of glitter and sparkles in his wake! Stinger can now be seen on display in the roof space above the ray pool.

Still on the sea monster theme, we had a guest presenter here that day too. Jock Nicol from Fugro Rov-Tech Ltd, told us of a real sea monster that had existed in pre-historic times and had been found recently as a fossil in the Arctic . It was so big and fierce it put the T-Rex dinosaur to shame!! Jock also told us all about his own experiences hunting for real treasure on sunken ships – a real adventurer!

Not to miss out on the fun, our cheeky divers dressed as mermaids in the tank for the mermaid’s purse prize draw which was a giggle, except that the cod thought that diver Selina’s mermaid hair was interesting food and she had to fight them off!! It was a successful day and we’re already looking forward to doing it all again next year!!

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