Gulf Specimen Marine Lab seeks donations for needed ozone machine

GULF SPECIMEN MARINE LABORATORIES Dear Friends of the Aquarium: Gulf Specimen Marine Aquarium is also known for its work  educating children about the ocean environment by providing experiences like hands-on touch tanks for 20,000 school children each year. We also provide marine specimens to scientists around the world. We are understandably proud of the role we played in the development of the anticancer drug bryostatin found in samples of the marine organism Bugula neritina provided by us. But all this wonderful work is threatened! We at Gulf Specimen Marine Aquarium were devastated when a repair crew fromTotalCare Ozone Systems told us the ozone machine we have counted on for years to keep our water clean is beyond repair. Without clean water, we cannot teach children about the sea. We cannot keep supplying the scientific community with specimens for the kind of work that brought bryostatin to cancer patients. And then there are the sea turtles. We presently have yet another sick sea turtle, we call him Spot, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle who arrived sick with pneumonia and near death. Spot is recovering but he still needs tube feeding and will likely be another long term rehabilitation, like Allie. We can't help Spot if we can't provide him with clean water. We are using bleach and charcoal as a stopgap measure to buy ourselves time but we simply must have a new ozone machine. Many of you followed Allie during her rehabilitation and recovery. Many of valued Allie enough to make the trip to see her released. 1000 people came out to see Allie released. If each of you could give us just $38 we will have enough to buy the new ozone machine and to provide clean water to sick sea turtles like Spot. Please help us continue saving sea turtles. Please  Donate Here   Sincerely, Jack Rudloe, President & Founder Gulf Specimen Aquarium & Marine Laboratory

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