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CLEVELAND, Ohio-As the days grow increasingly dark and colder, a trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef looks better and better. If you don’t have the time or funds for such excursion, you might try visiting the Great Lakes Science Center. The Cleveland Clinic Dome Theater is showing a documentary called “The Great Barrier Reef” at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm every day except Sunday and Monday.
The movie, just under an hour, is an escape to blue ocean waters and 1,400 miles of the most beautiful coral formation in the world. The movie follows oceanographer Jemma Craig whose family lives one of the 900 islands which surround the Great Barrier Reef.
Underwater cameras follow Craig as she saves a giant sea turtle who has consumed a plastic bag and lost the ability to dive in the waters around the reef. She takes the creature to an aquatic animal clinic where the bag is removed, and the turtle is nursed back to health.
We also get to visit with manta rays, watch sea horses give birth, and get learn about fragile existence of the living, breathing coral.
The filmmakers also accompany Craig on her first ever night dive and watch the reef glow with fluorescent colors under the camera lights.
The narrator, Australian actor Eric Bana, mentions that rising water temperatures due to global warming threaten to kill the algae that the coral feed on. What can be done about that threat remains to be seen. But “The Great Barrier Reef” should go a long way towards raising awareness of that great natural resource.
What: “The Great Barrier Reef” (Documentary)
Who: Directed by Steve Amezdroz. Narrated by Eric Bana.
Rated: G
Running time: 50 minutes.
When: Now playing.
Where: Great Lakes Science Center Cleveland Clinic Dome Imax Theater.
Grade: A
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