Category: Building
FIRST BEAM! Marine Animal Hospital Rises on Cape Cod Canal
With a 250-foot crane, constructions workers began to lift 40-foot/1200-pound steel beams, joists and girts, and assembled these jigsaw puzzle pieces into the new NMLC marine animal hospital in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. This 15,000 square foot, 100,000 gallon marine animal hospital will rehabilitate the world’s rarest and most endangered sea turtles, seals, porpoises, dolphins and […]
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!! It’s a Building Crane!!!
“Look up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a building crane!” Sound like the opening scene of another Superman rescue? If you’re a stranded marine animal on Cape Cod or in Buzzards Bay, today would seem like Superman has finally arrived. A 250-foot crane towers over the foundation of the new […]
Dog Days
One of the many joys of NMLC’s construction project are all the great dogs we’ve met. They supervise our construction work with toothy grins. They keep us company on long hauls. They amuse and entertain. They support and motivate. Perhaps it is because of their inspiration that we are so motivated to help other animals […]
New Marine Animal Hospital Arrives!
Six flatbed trucks rolled down Main Street, Buzzards Bay this morning. They carried the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital to our site at 120 Main Street where the foundation has been prepared and the building can begin to rise. Our new hospital will open on October 30th just in time to accept […]
Marine Animal Hospital Takes Shape
The construction teams from Simmons Concrete, Cape Cod Ready Mix, R & H Construction and W.W. Reich Inc. are working tirelessly to get the Sea Turtle Clinic ready for underground piping. To date Simmons Concrete and Cape Cod Ready Mix have poured 355 yards of concrete…with another 12 yards today. Simmons Concrete Team pouring concrete […]
Inside the Foundation Walls
With the foundation walls 90% complete, it’s hard to see what’s happening on the construction site these days. Although mostly hidden behind the walls, workers continue to make progress building NMLC’s new marine animal hospital. This week, I took a tour inside the foundation walls to see what was happening. There is a LOT of […]
$100,000 Challenge Passes 20%
Thank you, generous donors! Thank you from Team NMLC and thank you, much more importantly, from the marine animals of the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Maine who may be visiting your new marine animal hospital when it opens to receive patients from the fall stranding season. For those of you who are still […]
The Dream Set in Concrete
Dreams and plans for the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital at the gateway to Cape Cod have now been set in concrete! Crews arrived early on a drab, drizzling morning, but as concrete poured and foundation walls rose, the sun burned through the clouds, yielding azure blue skies and dazzling sunshine. Click Here to […]
$100,000 Challenge in the Mail
Members of Team NMLC formed an assembly line in the conference room this afternoon to “go postal,” so to speak. They put the finishing touches to mailings for the $100,000 Challenge Grant to open the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital on October 30th in time for the fall stranding season on Cape Cod. […]
$100K Challenge to Open Cape Marine Animal Hospital for Stranding Season
A collapsed roof forced the demolition of the National Marine Life Center’s old warehouse hospital, creating a large gap in treatment capacity for stranded marine animals on the Cape. But thanks to generous donors, help is on the way in the form of a $100K challenge grant to open a brand new marine animal hospital […]
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The time has come; it's #wishlistwednesday! In keeping with recent trends, we are kindly asking for disinfecting footbath mats (with high priority to those with
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Happy #turtletuesday and happy #VolunteerAppreciationWeek!!! Our volunteers play a crucial role during cold-stunned sea turtle season. Their unwavering dedication and selfless sacrifices enable us to
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🍦New Patient Alert 🍦 Meet Mud Pie! Mud Pie is a female grey seal weanling who was rescued by our friends Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket