Opening of the exhibition “Mediterranean, our sea as you've never seen”
SOCIB is featured in the exhibition "Mediterranean, our sea as you've never seen" organized by Obra Social “la Caixa” and opened on the 3rd of February 2016, at Caixa Forum Palma, the exhibition will remain open until May 2016. SOCIB is present through an interactive touchscreen purposely designed to show information about SOCIB activities and its philosophy. The exhibition, also includes two different playable games where the player is asked to solve an emergency situation using the information obtained through the different oceanographic instruments available at SOCIB.
The exhibition allows visitors to approach "the sea from its origins, discovering the biological and geological features, and showing some of the current scientific research programs, such as the Coastal Observing System and Prediction located in the Balearic Islands (SOCIB), the first underwater laboratory and a small robot that collects samples of the seabed, among others" according to its organizers.