Coral Reef Adventure brings the beauty and mystery of the coral reef environment to the big screen with a film that both celebrates this vital ecosystem and warns of its imminent decline. The film follows the personal journey of two under-water filmmakers, Howard and Michele Hall, on a 10-month expedition across the South Pacific to explore and document some of the world’s most beautiful and endangered coral reefs. Coral reefs may become extinct within 30 years due to global warming, over-fishing and pollution, scientists warn. Coral Reef Adventure is both an emotional account of two extraordinary individuals doing what they can to help save the coral reefs, and an exciting story of drama and adventure. One of the most riveting sequences occurs when Howard Hall takes the IMAX camera down 370 feet to film a deep ocean reef, setting a record for the deepest a diver has taken an IMAX camera in the open ocean.
Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Produced and distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films in association with National Wildlife Federation, Museum of Science, Boston, and Lowell, Blake and Associates
In promotional partnership with Quicksliver, SCUBAPRO, Smithsonian Magazine, and ADI/Sport Diver Magazine
Narrated by Liam Neeson
Featuring songs and music recorded by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Educational outreach support provided by NOAA and Reef Check
Runtime: 46 minutes
Format: filmed in 15 perforation/70 mm, 8/70, 10/70, Dome-customized 15/70
The Educator Guide includes seven lesson plans cover topics such as ecosystems, symbiosis, and adaptations as well as ocean pressure, density, sedimentation, and even engineering.
“Both an ethereal manifestation of spectacular beauty and the sobering account of a slow-motion catastrophe…This is a moving and not infrequently breathtaking film. ★★★★ (out of 4)”
– San Diego Union Tribune
“With its deep blue undersea vistas, vivid but delicate corals, and swiftly flashing schools of fish, Coral Reef Adventure is one beautiful piece of work. . . . Adventure it is, and of the most exhilarating sort.”
– Boston Globe
“Coral Reef Adventure is the first IMAX movie to challenge the supremacy of Everest…”
– Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“virtually transforms the five-story Omnimax into a giant fishbowl…the underwater scenes are amazing”
– Cincinnati Post