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04.20.2011 – Wild Ocean is an action-packed, inspirational giant screen documentary that explores the interplay between man and our endangered ocean ecosystem. The film investigates one of nature’s greatest migration spectacles: a super-shoal of billions of sardines that lurk in the deep, icy waters of the Indian Ocean. Wild Ocean opens on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2011 at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Omni Theater, an IMAX dome.

The Museum is launching an environmental-awareness campaign that rewards Museum guests for recycling their old mobile phones and accessories, April 22 to May 8, 2011. Any mobile device recycled at the Museum during that time period can be exchanged for a free voucher to experience the Museum and see Wild Ocean, a $19 value for adults and $14 value for seniors and children.

Individual tickets for Wild Ocean are $7 for adults; $6 for children (2-12) and seniors (60+). Museum members receive a $3 discount. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.fortworthmuseum.org or by phone at 817-255-9540. The film will show throughout the fall. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is located at 1600 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, 76107.

Wild Ocean plunges viewers into an underwater feeding frenzy, an epic struggle for survival where sea predators whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and billions of fish collide with the most voracious sea predator, mankind. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa and set to the rhythm of the local people, Wild Ocean reveals the economic and cultural impact of the ocean while celebrating communal efforts to protect our invaluable marine resources.

The film chronicles a massive annual feeding frenzy as predators pursue billions of sardines along the Kwa Zulu-Natal shoreline, known to locals as the Wild Coast. For the people living along the African shore, this migration has provided a food source for countless generations, while farther out at sea, ocean predators travel from great distances to feast. Bottlenose dolphins create superpods, thousands strong, to track down the huge shoals using sonar. Sharks sense blood in the water and join the hunt. Seals and common dolphins chase the fish from cooler currents up the coast into the warmer tropical waters. Diving birds, cape gannets, join the battle with aerial attacks from the sky. All of these animals are drawn to the scene, enmeshed in one of the most incredible mass feeding melees in the natural world. Eat — or get eaten.

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