Category: Building
Adding FRP
Last week and over the weekend, volunteers worked with staff to add “FRP” panels to our new food prep room. FRP is short for “fiberglass reinforced plastic”. These wall panels are durable and easy to clean, helping to create a sanitary kitchen. Only the best for our wildlife patients! The flat walls were the easy […]
Water Reaches The New Hospital
Last week marked a very important milestone for the new marine animal hospital at the National Marine Life Center. With the help of Waterlife Design Group, Village Plumbing, W.W. Reich Construction, and past facilities coordinator Brian Moore we pumped water from the pump house to the new hospital building for the first time. Our first […]
Framing Our Future Animal Kitchen
Students from the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School construction program have spent the last two days working in the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital. The students have been framing the walls around the food prep area, adding insulation, and putting up drywall! Having an enclosed food preparation room in a […]
Filter Media Arrives at NMLC
We are one step closer to getting the first two pools up and running in the Sea Turtle Ward. The 1,850 pounds of filter media needed to run our filtration system arrived at the new animal hospital yesterday. This filter media will be used to fill the two large sand filters which are a vital […]
A Different Kind of Needlework
Last week we told you about the new seal jump net installed on one of our rehabilitation tanks. This net is important to prevent animals from getting out of the tank. We had a few holes in the net, and thankfully Captain Edward Bruce, Staff Associate for Marine Operations at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, came […]
Maximizing flexibility….
As we’ve been designing our new marine animal hospital, we’ve tried to take into account the fact that stranding numbers vary greatly from year to year. Although we have designed certain patient wards specifically for certain groups of animals, we also want to be able to house other animals in those pools as necessary. To […]
Connecting the Pump House
As we move towards opening the first patient ward of our new marine animal hospital, one of the remaining tasks was connecting the Life Support System Pump House to the hospital. On a wonderful Fall morning, workers from R&H Construction, Village Plumbing, and W.W. Reich proceeded to do just that! They dug a hole to […]
Laundry Room Operational!
Sometimes it’s the little things…. This week we got the laundry room in our new marine animal hospital up and running! Village Plumbing had already completed the water connections while Glynn Electric hooked up the lights. All that was left was for us to set our new (to us) washer and dryer (generously donated by […]
Sealing up the Hospital
The final panels in the west wall of our Marine Animal Hospital were placed yesterday April 7, 2010. Workers from H & S Construction put the last few bolts in around 1:30pm yesterday. The crew still needs to come back and finish up a couple of things in side the hospital. Please enjoy the photos […]
The Last Wall
If you’ve driven by our new marine animal hospital in the last several months, you may have noticed the exterior isn’t quite finished. We’d left an opening in the side so that heavy equipment could get in and out. Now that we’ve installed the sprinklers and placed the last turtle tank, we no longer need […]
National Marine Life Center
Good evening to all of our wonderful supporters! We are nearing the end of the year, which means....it's time to vote for NMLC's 2025 seal
National Marine Life Center
🍦New Patient Alert🍦 Meet Nutty Buddy! Nutty Buddy is a male grey seal yearling who was rescued by our friends at Whale and Dolphin Conservation
National Marine Life Center
We are absolutely loving the updates on our chilly Cape Cod sea turtles! Keep ‘em coming, The Florida Aquarium!