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WHAT IS SeaTrek®?
CHOOSING THE RIGHT SeaTrek® SYSTEM FOR YOUR AQUARIUM
THE SeaTrek® TOUR
TREKKERS IN THE AQUARIUM
PLUS: What SeaTrek® Brings to Your Aquarium Contents
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4 6 Details on the helmet diving program. 6 Choosing the right SeaTrek system for your aquarium With or without air lines. 9 The SeaTrek tour Timing of a typical SeaTrek tour schedule.
10 Trekkers in the aquarium Frequently asked questions regarding SeaTrek tours in the aquarium environment.
5 11 SeaTrek safety SeaTrek and Sub Sea Systems, committed to the highest safety standards in the industry.
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® your aquarium WHAT IS SeaTrek ? CHOOSING THE BACK COVER RIGHT SeaTrek® ® Benefits to offering SeaTrek tours. SYSTEM FOR YOUR Photo Courtesy of: AQUARIUM The Future of Immersive Entertainment Jeanie’s Beach Club, THE SeaTrek® TOUR
TREKKERS IN THE SeaTrek Cozumel, AQUARIUM Mexico
® PLUS: What Trek Brings“SeaTrek is an extraordinary to Your attraction that Aquarium “The view is spectacular, like a 360 degree, Sea allows people to easily enter the underwater individualized IMAX, only it’s real. So world… This activity is nature-friendly, with amazing—it nearly takes your breath away!” high security standards and an enormous —Merrilyn McDonald, potential for education.” The Miami Herald —Efraín Ríos, Xcaret Aquarium Director (2003-2008)
“YOU GOTTA TRY IT. Non-divers can get a full “It’s as simple as walking and breathing, and immersion undersea experience through you don’t have to know how to swim—you can © 2012 Sub Sea Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. SeaTrek.” even wear prescription glasses.”
—San Francisco Chronicle ® —Caribbean Travel & Life SeaTrek is a registered trademark of Sub Sea Systems, Inc. © 2013 Sub Sea Systems®, Inc. | 6524 Commerce Way, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 | 530-626-0100 | [email protected] | www.Sea-Trek.com Contents
Discovery Cove, Orlando, Florida Miami Seaquarium, Florida
Sea Life Park, Oahu, Hawaii Atlantis The Palm, Dubai
Immersive entertainment in aquariums worldwide, since 2001
Atlantis Paradise Island, Schlitterbahn Beach Bahamas Waterpark, Texas
Resorts World Sentosa,
WELCOME TO WATER TO WELCOME SeaWorld Orlando, Florida Singapore 4 What is SeaTrek? What is Trek®? Developed by Sub Sea SystemsSea®, Inc., a world leader in marine recreation technology, SeaTrek is the most comprehensive underwater helmet diving system and instructional program, with a proven history of safety and reliability, in the industry. The SeaTrek system and SeaTrek Guide certification program are focused on the highest level of guest safety and system performance. Sub Sea Systems’ Air Centers provide quiet delivery of filtered, dried and cooled air using impeller compressor technology, high efficiency frequency-drive motors and redundant levels of emergency air supply.
All SeaTrek tours begin with a short health questionnaire and completion of a liability release, followed by an orientation and video safety briefing. In less than 10 minutes guests are ready to descend a vertical ladder to find themselves immersed in the underwater realm, walking on the aquarium seabed in near weightlessness. Vibrant marine life comfortably swims around participants as they discover the beauty and majesty of this remarkable environment. SeaTrek tours focus on education and entertainment, teaching guests about our fragile marine ecosystem in a way that is fun, engaging and most of all memorable.
SeaTrek is the largest helmet diving program in the world, with insured safety standards and a certification program for all SeaTrek SeaTrek Reef Encounter, Miami Seaquarium, Florida staff members. SeaTrek is truly unique and unlike anything else on Products and services this planet. Sub Sea Systems offers a number of flexible purchase, Broad license, and lease opportunities. Turn-key products and services include: Customer • Fully published operating standards and safety procedures Base • Staff training and certification Meet Bror Anderson who • Worldwide “professional” liability insurance coverage became the oldest recorded SeaTrek participant at 93 • On-site development consultation / design assistance years old in April 2008, • System installation, set-up, and maintenance training Grand Cayman. “It made me feel alive.” • AUR- “Automatic Unit Replacement” Program for worry -Bror Anderson free maintenance support at no additional cost (licensees) • Product liability insurance • Complete line of promotional materials, including: mini helmet displays, posters, banners, brochures, rack cards, green screen photo templates, and Trekker caricature with educational book
• Graphic design support • Complete line of forms for operations, including: participant record and liability waiver (available in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese & other languages), certificates of participation, briefing and orientation charts, daily system equipment checklist, and Guide/ Safety Staff training materials SeaTrek Training Manual What is SeaTrek? What SeaTrek brings to your aquarium 5
Atlantis The Palm, Dubai What SeaTrek brings to your aquarium Research indicates that aquarium visitors are increasingly Education through entertainment seeking interactive activities. SeaTrek takes interactive to the next level; transforming it into an immersive experience. “Living Classroom”: Immerse students in the underwater Participants step into a three-dimensional world and become world and let them experience the marine life that they part of the aquarium environment. Immersive experiences have only read about. offer a profound impact when teaching guests about the marine environment. Future Careers: Inspire our future scientists.
Benefits - be memorable Be memorable: Provide guests with the highest level of entertainment and educational immersion. 1. Membership Incentive: Use SeaTrek to drive memberships. The Average Person Remembers 2. Increase Press: Give the media something to rave 100 90 about. Place the spotlight on your aquarium and its new 90 innovative activities. 80 3. Returning Guests: Adding SeaTrek will encourage your 70
guests to keep coming back. 60 ® “It made me feel alive.” 50 -Bror Anderson 4. Innovative: Provide guests with a truly unique 50
adventure to view your aquarium from a completely 40 % of Retention
30 Sea Trek different perspective. 30 : Increase income per capita with SeaTrek tours, % of Retention 5. Profits 20 photos and branded merchandise. 10
10 TREK INTERACTIVE SEA - The average SeaTrek aquarium experience ranges 0 in selling price from $69 to $129. HearHear ReadRead SeeSee Do Method of Attaining Information Method of Attaining Information *Veverka, JA 1994. Interpretive Master Planning. Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc. Helena. Montana,USA hat is Reef Alliance is a program that W ? promotes sustainable diving practices, focusing on environmental responsibility, consumer awareness, participant education and pro-active Reef Alliance Day Cleanup Reef Alliance Day Cleanup conservation. Coral World 2011 Corporate Staff 2009 6 Choosing the right SeaTrek system for your aquarium
Choosing the right SeaTrek system for your aquarium
EP Air Center Self-Contained System, Atlantis Calin - SeaTrek Technician, Mexico Paradise Island, Bahamas EP AIR CENTERS SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEM with AIR LINES without AIR LINES
SeaTrek EP Systems offer redundant The Self-Contained System incorporates an levels of reserve air supply and integrated air supply secured to a stainless steel safety. A digital controller monitors backpack. A continuous flow of air is supplied to air delivery and will automatically each helmet, without air lines to the surface. react to a low pressure condition, or power loss, and automatically engage a full compliment of air cylinders to easily complete a tour. A low-voltage signaling system will notify staff that the system is operating on reserve air using both audible and visual alarms at the water entry point. The SeaTrek Air Centers are also extremely quiet emitting only 75 decibels at 3 feet of distance. The system is built to the highest worldwide standards; it is CE Marked, and meets all UL, ASME standards or directives.
EP Systems available in 50 or 60Hz systems, with the following helmet capacities: • EP-1 (5.0)—15 helmets max • EP-1 (7.5)—20 helmets max SeaTrek Self-Contained System • EP-2 (5.0)—30 helmets max • EP-2 (7.5)—40 helmets max • • •
• Ideal for spacious and /or open aquarium environments • Better for overhangs, artificial obstructions or • Easier—no refilling or changing out air cylinders bridges in the aquarium environment • Unlimited air supply—no time limit for tour duration • More suitable where there isn’t room for an air • Lighter on guests (no backpack or scuba tank) delivery system • Faster turn-around time Choosing the right SeaTrek system for your aquarium
Standard SeaTrek System with Air Lines
WITH AIR LINES vs. WITHOUT AIR LINES
SeaTrek Self-Contained System The SeaTrek tour
Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore The SeaTrek tour 9
All SeaTrek tours begin with a health questionnaire, orientation and safety briefing. After the 10-minute The evolution of The SeaTrek tour orientation, Trekkers enter the water for a 20-25 minute guided tour. Post-tour, Trekkers are able to share helmet diving their experience with the SeaTrek staff and have the opportunity to purchase photos, videos and branded 1771 merchandise. Frenchman Fremient produces a brass diving Typical tour schedule helmet
0:00-0:05 Tour group arrives at the staging area. SeaTrek staff welcomes guests and prepares for water entry. 1830s 0:05-0:15 A SeaTrek staff member leads an orientation and safety briefing using The Deane brothers and a video presentation. Each guest is Augustus Siebe develop ® the first helmet diving fitted with a wet suit and Crocs shoes apparatus suit (whenever foot protection is needed).
0:15-0:40 Guests enter the water and begin the underwater tour. Up to three “highlight 1870 moment” stops are planned along the Jules Verne depicts tour path. helmet divers in his famous tale “20,000 0:40-0:45 Trekkers exit the water. First-in, first-out. Leagues Under the Sea”
*0:45-0:60 Trekkers share their experience in the SeaTrek comment book. Participants can view a video of their experience, as well as purchase photos and branded merchandise.
* If back-to-back tours are offered, new tour groups 1915 can begin the briefing process while the previous tour George Stillson invents is underwater. A new tour could begin as frequently as the MKV diving helmet every 1/2 hour. made famous by the US Navy
1949 Commercial helmet diving made popular in Bermuda
1998 Sub Sea Systems® introduces the world’s first comprehensive recreational helmet diving program called SeaTrek® SeaTrek Ladder Entry 10 Trekkers in the aquarium • Installing a platform, pavers or walkway may be advised to minimize turbidity or suspension of particulates.
How much aspiration will be released from the helmets into the aquarium? • A continuos flow of 1.7 cfm of air is aspirated through each helmet.
What power is required by the Sea Trek® system? • Standard SeaTrek system requirements: (1) 220 volt / single phase / 60 hertz OR (1) 400 volt / 3 phase / 50 hertz
Will participants wear full wet suits? • In most cases participants will be asked to wear a full wet suit and foot protection. • The wet suit will help reduce bioload introduction into the aquarium.
SeaTrek Platform, Miami Seaquarium How will SeaTrek affect animals in an aquarium? • After the initial acclimation, SeaTrek has proven to Trekkers in the have no adverse affects on the marine life. • Trekkers have a similar presence as the divers that aquarium frequently clean and maintain the tank. • Through the acclimation process, the SeaTrek How will guests enter the water? • Guests enter the water via vertical ladder (facing). activity is introduced to the animals of the aquarium. • Each guest descends the ladder until the water is at This gradual process will yield the least amount of shoulder level. Once the helmet is lowered onto the stress on inhabitants. guest’s shoulders, he or she continues to descend with the aid of the safety diver or SeaTrek Guide. Are there any affects on stationary invertebrate animals in the aquarium? • Participants will walk along a defined path therefore Where will SeaTrek participants walk? • Participants will walk along a predetermined path. avoiding touching or bumping any aquarium structures.
Guide Assisting Guest Down the Ladder Shark Encounter, SeaWorld Orlando, Florida Trekkers in the aquarium
SeaTrek Guests with Lift Buoy SeaTrek’s DolphinTrek Program • The SeaTrek system is available in a self-contained backpack unit eliminating the concern for air line SeaTrek safety contact. Every delivery of a SeaTrek system includes Will guests be allowed to touch the animals? comprehensive training and certification of Guides • According to the aquarium’s standards, guests may and Safety Staff. All conceivable emergency condition or may not be allowed to touch or handle marine life. responses are simulated, trained and practiced to assure • SeaTrek standards inform guests to only handle the SeaTrek staff are confident in their daily touring marine life if allowed to do so. activities. The training certification is rigorous and is concluded with a written exam and practical review. Sub Are there any chemicals in the helmet that may be Sea Systems is a dive training agency with fully published harmful to the aquarium animals? training and certification standards insured by the same • No; helmets are injection molded from insurance provider as the largest dive training agency in poly-carbonate. the world.
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“SeaTrek is an extraordinary attraction that “The view is spectacular, like a 360 degree, allows people to easily enter the underwater individualized IMAX, only it’s real. So world… This activity is nature-friendly, with amazing—it nearly takes your breath away!” high security standards and an enormous —Merrilyn McDonald, potential for education.” The Miami Herald —Efraín Ríos, Xcaret Aquarium Director (2003-2008)
“YOU GOTTA TRY IT. Non-divers can get a full “It’s as simple as walking and breathing, and immersion undersea experience through you don’t have to know how to swim—you can SeaTrek.” even wear prescription glasses.”
—Caribbean Travel & Life —San Francisco Chronicle
© 2013 Sub Sea Systems®, Inc. | 6524 Commerce Way, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 | 530-626-0100 | [email protected] | www.Sea-Trek.com