To improve reading skills for children in Eastern Kentucky, today Carl and Jean are donating 500 copies of their award-winning book, A Pirate’s Quest, to the nonprofit Save the Children. The books will be distributed to four elementary schools in Whitley County, Kentucky. Carl and Jean are also donating four copies of our award-winning DVD movie, [...]
Good news for sharks! Congress passes the Shark Conservation Act of 2010 to ban unimaginable shark finning, where the fins of live sharks are cut off and the sharks are thrown back in the water to die, in U.S. waters. Learn more in the article, “Congress Passes Shark Conservation Act to Ban Gruesome Finning Practices“. [...]
Do you care about keeping our Great Lakes and oceans clean? The International Coastal Cleanup 2010 from the Ocean Conservancy is this Saturday and you can help! The Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup, in partnership with organizations and individuals across the globe, engages people to remove trash and debris from the world’s beaches and waterways, [...]
President Barak Obama signed a new Executive Order establishing the National Ocean Council. This is good news in light of the disastrous, horrible BP oil spill. This Executive Order establishes a new National Ocean Policy for the “stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and Great Lakes, which sets our Nation on a path toward comprehensive planning for the [...]
For threatened wildlife in Gulf, it may be too little too late. BP will be liable for billions of dollars of damage to compensate for wildlife killed from the oil spill, according to the article, “Oil spill: How much is a pelican worth?”. “What concerns us most is the animals we can’t see,” Rowan Gould, acting [...]
Federal wildlife agencies proposed Wednesday increased protections for loggerhead turtles along both U.S. coasts, according to the article “U.S. wildlife agencies seek protections for loggerhead turtles” in The Baltimore Sun. Ever since viewing the first clips from our award winning movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, featuring baby loggerhead sea turtles drifting along the ocean currents [...]
Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above. They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of [...]
KIDS FIRST! announced its Best of the Year Awards, and our underwater film The Riddle in a Bottle won the Best Educational Film for Ages 5 to 12. KIDS FIRST! is the world’s largest film festival, run by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a national, nonprofit organization that evaluates, rates and endorses children’s feature films, DVDs, [...]
Watch this amazing footage as Steve Leonard gets up close and personal with a giant octopus in the freezing sea waters. Would you be happy to get this close to an Extreme Animal with giant eyes and pale blue blood? Find out now as you take a dive into this beautiful aquatic environment. The common [...]
From the Sisbro Blog, Laura Sams writes that in their next episode of The Riddle Solvers, they find an ancient journal with a riddle about shark teeth. She is blown away by how tiny the whale shark teeth are, and how the biggest fish in the ocean has such tiny teeth. Learn more
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