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Encounter between a solitary wild dolphin and human children in 1967. Educational anthropologist Dr. Betsy Smith of Florida International University is usually credited with starting the first line of research into dolphin-assisted therapy in 1971, building on earlier research by American neuroscientist Dr. John Lilly on interspecies communication between dolphins and humans in the 1950s. [11]
The 9-foot (2.7 m) tall statue Christ of the Deep, placed in less than 25 feet (7.6 m) of water in a sand channel on the offshore side of the Dry Rocks reef on August 25, 1965, in what at that time was part of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, was included in the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary.
The state-sanctioned Everglades National Park Commission proposed a national park for the Everglades, including the reefs off Key Largo. Opposition from property owners, outdoorsmen, and Monroe County Commissioners stopped the plan. When Everglades National Park was created in 1947, the boundaries did not include Key Largo or any of the reefs. [3]
Jul. 12—CONNEAUT LAKE — Young Cooper Mangini couldn't stop smiling after water skiing on Conneaut Lake. "It was awesome," said Cooper, 9, who is no stranger to the water. He proudly told a ...
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
Development activities may cause erosion resulting in the runoff of sediments which eventually reach the coral reefs. Storm water runoff may carry fertilizers into the ocean causing damage to the coral reefs, and an increase of nutrient concentrations in the reef may cause an increase of algae which may smother the corals. Sizable foreign ...
Aquarius is located under 20 m (66 ft) of water at the base of a coral reef within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, an ideal site for studying the health of sensitive coral reefs. The laboratory is most often used by marine biologists for whom Aquarius acts as home base as they study the coral reef, the fish and aquatic plants that ...
Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...