Wahoo Bay is envisioned to provide an immersive experience for park visitors, especially young children. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the importance of keeping our oceans and reefs healthy and thriving in an entertaining, educational and memorable way.
In the shallow protected waters adjoining the Pompano Beach, FL Hillsboro Inlet Park an underwater experience will be created that will preserve and enhance existing natural resources and add environmentally friendly interactive art, live lab experiments and educational displays. The in-water experience will stimulate all five senses and be accessible to anyone young and old, able-bodied or disabled.
The adjacent on-shore experience will continue the theme with the installation of interactive educational exhibits and create areas for open space outdoor classrooms.
Shipwreck Park is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the creation of an underwater park system establishing artificial reefs, utilizing public art to raise awareness of the need to preserve and conserve our natural coral reef system. Wahoo Bay is a Shipwreck Park initiative that will be run by the City of Pompano Beach's Parks and Recreation Department and supported by community volunteers. Wahoo Bay Foundation, is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization.
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Aug. 13, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Scientists, government officials and citizens concerned about climate change and sea level rise will soon have a new source of data when Wahoo Bay in Pompano Beach launches. This underwater marine park will become a global incubator for the ocean’s ecosystem and will test the SEAHIVE™ marine and estuarine shoreline protection system, a research project funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) in collaboration with FDOT.
