 July 2007 - Three senior Marine Biology students from E.S.T.M. start their company, Coris, by doing some experimental collections off Peniche, with the assistance of the Flying Sharks team.
|  July 2007 - Coris' activity is based off Peniche and will focus its activities on small local fish and invertebrates, working closely with Flying Sharks, which focuses its collecting efforts on larger animals caught in the Algarve.
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 July 2007 - The inaugural Coris collecting trip brings home some 40 smal fish, including Blennies, Gobies, Sparids and a few invertebrates. All animals were acclimatized to the School's holding tanks.
|  July 2007 - E.S.T.M. supports Coris by making its Biology Laboratories available for temporary holding.
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 July 2008 - Flying Sharks joins hands with Coris and Nuno Rodrigues (ESTM alumni and author of a book on Berlenga's fauna) to collect some animals for the Virginia Aquarium.
|  July 2008 - The animals are kept in the Biology Lab. of the E.S.T.M., which supports Coris, and other enterprises by alumni, regularly.
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 July 2008 - All animals are carefully identified. The Symphodus sp. get our heads spinning but, luckily, Nuno took dozens of pictures of these, in the wild, and is well trained in telling them appart.
|  August 2008 - Bagging begins at 03.00 AM as all 36 boxes need to be delivered to the airport at 08.00 h. Different species were bagged in different proportions of water and oxygen, depending on size and nature.
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 August 2008 - All boxes are carefully labeled, indicating species, time of packing and emergency contacts. The fish travelled by road from Peniche to Lisbon, flew to J.F.K. on Air Portugal and were then driven, on a dedicated A.C.d truck, to the Virginia Aquarium.
|  August 2008 - All boxes arrived safely to the airport and were delivered in the professional hands of the good people of Nippon Air Express, who did a phenomenal job. All 124 fish arrived alive and well at their destination, after 32 hours in transit.
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July 2007 - Three senior Marine Biology students from E.S.T.M. start their company, Coris, by doing some experimental collections off Peniche, with the assistance of the Flying Sharks team.
July 2007 - Coris' activity is based off Peniche and will focus its activities on small local fish and invertebrates, working closely with Flying Sharks, which focuses its collecting efforts on larger animals caught in the Algarve.
July 2007 - The inaugural Coris collecting trip brings home some 40 smal fish, including Blennies, Gobies, Sparids and a few invertebrates. All animals were acclimatized to the School's holding tanks.
July 2007 - E.S.T.M. supports Coris by making its Biology Laboratories available for temporary holding.
July 2008 - Flying Sharks joins hands with Coris and Nuno Rodrigues (ESTM alumni and author of a book on Berlenga's fauna) to collect some animals for the Virginia Aquarium.
July 2008 - The animals are kept in the Biology Lab. of the E.S.T.M., which supports Coris, and other enterprises by alumni, regularly.
July 2008 - All animals are carefully identified. The Symphodus sp. get our heads spinning but, luckily, Nuno took dozens of pictures of these, in the wild, and is well trained in telling them appart.
August 2008 - Bagging begins at 03.00 AM as all 36 boxes need to be delivered to the airport at 08.00 h. Different species were bagged in different proportions of water and oxygen, depending on size and nature.
August 2008 - All boxes are carefully labeled, indicating species, time of packing and emergency contacts. The fish travelled by road from Peniche to Lisbon, flew to J.F.K. on Air Portugal and were then driven, on a dedicated A.C.d truck, to the Virginia Aquarium.
August 2008 - All boxes arrived safely to the airport and were delivered in the professional hands of the good people of Nippon Air Express, who did a phenomenal job. All 124 fish arrived alive and well at their destination, after 32 hours in transit.