{"id":40162,"date":"2016-06-10T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40162"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:03:38","slug":"the-imaginarium-gets-tanked-tonight-on-animal-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/06\/the-imaginarium-gets-tanked-tonight-on-animal-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imaginarium Gets Tanked Tonight on Animal Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Tanked” 10 p.m. Friday, Animal Planet channel<\/p>\n

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Wayde King (right) and Brett Raymer of “Tanked” work on their aquarium at the Imaginarium in April<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The guys from \u201cTanked\u201d didn\u2019t have it\u00a0easy installing an aquarium at the Imaginarium Science Center.<\/p>\n

The 3,200-gallon aquarium got scratched and gouged during its cross-country trip from Las Vegas\u00a0to\u00a0Fort Myers\u00a0in an 18-wheeler truck. The 20 species of saltwater fish had to be flown to Miami instead of\u00a0Southwest Florida International Airport, thanks to weight and size restrictions. And a forklift ended up damaging a pillar\u00a0inside the science center.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really tight quarters,\u201d says Wayde King, who stars with\u00a0fellow aquarium builder Brett Raymer on the popular Animal Planet reality show. \u201cThere were a lot of hiccups.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, somehow, King and Raymer managed to pull it off.<\/p>\n

Watch tonight 10 p.m. Friday, Animal Planet channel<\/p>\n

This is the dawning of the age of aquariums, the age of aquariums\u2026(aquaria?)<\/p>\n

You probably know by now that true to our EnRichment initiative, there are several community organizations and service projects we\u2019re passionate about, from Cape Coral Hospital\u2019s\u00a0Pathway to Discovery<\/a>\u00a0toTanglewood Elementary\u2019s outdoor classroom<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0Foundation for Lee County Public Schools<\/a>\u00a0and even more. As the expertise represented by EnSite\u2019s team was cultivated by early\u00a0STEM learning opportunities<\/a>, we feel it\u2019s important to pay it forward to provide those types of opportunities to the next generation. We will come to rely on them someday \u2013 before we know it! \u2013 to design communities that are sustainable and that will fulfill the needs of their residents and stakeholders long into the future.<\/p>\n

To that end, our own Jon Romine has been serving for a while now as president of the board for the Imaginarium Foundation, serving the interests of the Imaginarium Science Center and Southwest Florida Museum of History. Naturally fundraising is an important function of the foundation, with the Imagine Gala the major function for that function \u2013 ha!<\/p>\n

With the great support of the community over the years, we are thrilled to be able to expand and improve the programming and exhibits, and eventually enrich the campus of the Imaginarium, which recently became more closely aligned with the SWFL Museum of History.<\/p>\n

Here is an exciting development \u2013 we\u2019re going to be on TV! Fans of\u00a0Tanked, the Animal Planet<\/a>\u00a0series following Wayde King and Brett Raymer as they build aquariums (aquaria?) for the rich and famous. The duo were on hand here in Fort Myers just a few days ago to build a beautiful new tank containing a replica of the U.S.S. Mohawk, the proud ship that was commissioned in 1935 and intentionally sunk to be an artificial reef off the coast of Fort Myers Beach in 2012. How\u2019s that for recycling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Tanked” 10 p.m. Friday, Animal Planet channel The guys from \u201cTanked\u201d didn\u2019t have it\u00a0easy installing an aquarium at the Imaginarium Science Center. The 3,200-gallon aquarium got scratched and gouged during… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}