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Up Close and Personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Aired April 3, 2000 - 9:57 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Our last story this hour comes from California, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium is bringing the sea down to a manageable size.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: That it is. Don Knapp takes us up close and personal at the Splash Zone.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DON KNAPP, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It may be fun to watch fish frolic in a sun dappled glass tank, but, for a kid, a little bit of looking can go a long way.

Kids want action. They find it here, in the Splash Zone, the $2.5 million exhibit created after the aquarium discovered that more than half the families that came here had children under 9.

JENNY SAYRE RAMBERT, MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: We wanted to create a place for families, a special place that would really encourage family learning, and family learning about the ocean environment.

KNAPP: The coolest ocean critters and the funnest exhibits, these South African black footed penguins seem to swim to the aquarium's music. Acrylic bubbles let parents and kids put their heads right inside.

(on camera): What is it about penguins?

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Well, they have black and white, and they waddle and they swim.

ANDY CASE, MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: e have an incredible variety of animals from all over the world that reflect different body shapes, different behaviors, different colors, from sea horses, to moray eels, to sharks.

KNAPP (voice-over): Jaw fish pop up like prairie dogs out of their holes. Kids, and parents, if they want, can crawl through a coral reef exhibit where leafy sea dragons drift like seaweed, and death defying shrimp eat food out of the mouths of eels.

CASE: When we knew we wanted to create an exhibit that would, hopefully, inspire the next generation of ocean stewards, we wanted to pick stuff that would get kids jazzed. KNAPP (on camera): There may be more hands on things to play with in this exhibit. But the idea here is the same as it is in the rest of the aquarium: teach kids and families a respect for the ocean, and help them make a connection.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: You can pick these things up.

KNAPP (voice-over): Don Knapp, CNN, Monterey, California.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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