Marine Science Station 45th Anniversary, Museum Rededication & Open House

The Citrus School Board renovation of the Marine Museum over a year ago and it is hoped at in the near future it will again be would fill the museum with more learning. The original museum was built in 1968 and was dedicated in 1969 in memory of form native and Navy person and Naval aquanaut Barry L. Cannon.  Please join us at the Open House and rededication on November 17th, 2012 beginning at 9:00am thru 2:00pm with the dedication at 11:00am.

Barry L. Cannon Memorial Wet Laboratory Marine Museum (now named ‘Berry L. Cannon Memorial Aquarium‘)

“This museum was named for the outstanding career of Barry L. Cannon, a civilian electronic engineer, whose life was cut short when he met death while working on the ocean floor the first day of the Navy’s Sea Lab III project off San Clemente Island, off the California coast, on Feb. 17, 1969. Cannon, who was 33 years old at the time of his death, was a veteran of the Navy’s Man-in-the-Sea program, an extensive and projected program to determine man’s ability to live and work in the ocean. Cannon also was a participating aquanaut during the Sea Lab II experiment conducted in 1965, La Jolla, Calif. CA Cannon was on active duty in the Navy from 1953 to 1957, attended the University of Nevada and received his BS Degree in electronics engineering from the University of Florida in 1962. He had been with the Navy Laboratory in Panama City since 1963.” (Excerpt from the Orlando Sentinel, written June 17^th, 1970.)

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