
Photo credit: Screenshot from www.vanaqua.org
There’s snow on the North Shore mountains and a nip in the air. ‘Tis the season . . . for Scuba Claus.
The Vancouver Aquarium is bringing back its popular underwater Santa this year as part of Luminescence, perhaps the world’s only aquatic-themed holiday light show.
From Nov. 22 to Jan. 22, the aquarium will be transformed with displays dedicated to showing how sea creatures create and reflect light.
Apart from Scuba Claus (who’s not a sea creature but a diver in full Santa suit), the stars of the show are the aquarium’s resident electric eels. Their charges will be set to activate a stunning overhead display of 100 origami jellyfish – meticulously folded over the course of three months in collaboration with origami artist Joseph Wu. Known as Jelly Swarm, the display pulses with light and colour in time with the eels’ natural electrical charges.
Other exhibits throughout the aquarium illustrate the wonders of aquatic light in action. Continue reading:
See Scuba Claus and Holiday Jellyfish at the Vancouver Aquarium, Nov 22