DAILY SCHEDULE: LABOR DAY 2009 - MEMORIAL DAY 2010

Because events are subject to change, please call ahead to confirm. For additional information, call (757) 664-1000. Events are included in Nauticus admission unless otherwise noted.

Films

The Pirate Code: Real Pirates. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Daily. Visit Real Pirates, then learn even more about pirate life with this award-winning documentary produced by the National Geographic Society.

The Living Sea. Noon (45 min.) Daily. This film celebrates the world's ocean - its beauty, diversity and importance to all life on Earth. Swim with thousands of golden jellyfish and witness the bizarre spawning behavior of giant clams. Surf in Hawaii, deep-sea dive in Palau and test your courage with the Coast Guard in some of the world's roughest seas!

CineMuse Hi-Def Cinema

PROGRAM TITLES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CALL (757) 664-1000 FOR AN UP–TO-DATE SCHEDULE.

The Blue Realm – Shark Business (47 minutes) 3 p.m. Daily: Shark Business unravels some of the mysteries surrounding sharks with controversial behaviorist Dr. Erich Ritter. Witness divers testing the limits of shark-human interaction outside of cages! A Sport Diver Television production.

Wild Weather - Wet (50 minutes) 4 p.m. Daily. Take a ride with the rains from the wettest place in Europe - the Norwegian town of Bergen where it rains 265 days a year—to the wettest country in the world, India, where 25 billion tons of water fall each day during the monsoon period. A BBC/TLC co-production.

The Octopus Challenge (30 minutes) 1 p.m. Weekdays: This amusing & insightful program shows the octopus in action, squeezing into tiny spaces, sniffing out hidden food and even opening doors. A BBC/Animal Planet co-production.

For Our Young Visitors

Creature Features, 1 p.m., Weekends. These extra-short programs explore different features of all sorts of creatures! Perfect for preschoolers, each Creature Feature will be followed by an educator-led activity, from dramatizations with Nauticus actors to live animal visits from Animal Jungle!

Preschool Science Adventures. Saturdays & Sundays at 2 p.m. Spend some fun, interactive and educational time with your child at Nauticus. Geared for children ages two to five, these half hour programs include a story time and hands-on activities.

This Month's Themes:

• March 6 – 7: Life at Sea
• March 13 – 14: Underwater Exploration
• March 20 – 21: Treasure Hunting
• March 27 – 28: Boats

Programs

Shark Feeding, 10:30 a.m. Weekends.

Horseshoe Crab Cove Feeding, 1:30 p.m., Weekends.

Pirate Blast, Noon & 2 p.m. Weekends, Wisconsin Vista. In the golden age of piracy, your ship was more likely to survive if it had the biggest guns. This program will demonstrate all the types of artillery found on or in a pirate ship in the 18th century.

ROV Workshop, Weekdays, 2 p.m.  Weekends, 11 a.m & 3 p.m.

Nauticus educators are on hand to help you assemble and test out your own Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV).

Shark Lab. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Daily. Learn all about shark behavior, conservation and ecology!

Frozen: Science On a Sphere Movie, 11:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. Daily. This NASA-produced short film depicts our transitioning home planet in ways that have never been seen before. Frozen showcases the places on Earth where temperatures don't generally rise above water's freezing point, which are called the global cryosphere.

A Pirate's World: Science On a Sphere Movie, 1 p.m. Daily. Captain Worthington commandeers our Science On a Sphere exhibit, allowing guests to get an up close and global perspective of pirates through time and around the world!

Aegis Command Center 10:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m. & 2:45 p.m. Daily. Aegis is an ancient word for shield. It's also the name of the Navy's hi-tech protection system used by destroyers to form a 250-mile-radius shield around a naval battle group. This specially designed command center theater simulates a battle situation, allowing you to feel the weight of command, as you make hair-raising, snap decisions.

Design Chamber: Battleship X. 11:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. & 3:45 p.m. Daily. Inside this multi-media interactive theater, match wits with America's best ship designers on the eve of World War II in a race against time to create the greatest battleship ever. If you are a tactical genius, this is the place to show it.