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Students get personal at BUEI preview

Exploration Institute's expert advisors in a special tour of the museum."Jaws'' author Peter Benchley, Titanic adventurer Steve Barasco, and shark expert Eugenie Clarke will today give presentations to 300 middle school students between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Exploration Institute's expert advisors in a special tour of the museum.

"Jaws'' author Peter Benchley, Titanic adventurer Steve Barasco, and shark expert Eugenie Clarke will today give presentations to 300 middle school students between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

The three are among a group of the BUEI's international advisors here on their yearly pilgrimage to assist the new museum.

Bermuda's own Teddy Tucker will also make presentations.

Tomorrow the advisors will make similar presentations for adults in the Lecture Hall between 9 a.m. and noon.

Tonight there will be the invitation only premiere of "Keepers of the Reef'', a special documentary filmed in Bermuda by Greg Stone of the New England Aquarium.

On Saturday night, the hour-long film will be shown to members of the public for $10, and members for $7.

BUEI spokeswoman Jacqui Horsefield said "Keepers of the Reef'' is "staggeringly beautiful'' and "sensational''.

She said it depicted the Island's underwater life maintaining the reef and included footage of shipwrecks.

Eugenie Clarke is considered the world's leading expert on sharks and has dived the oceans in everything from a diving helmet to deep-sea submersibles.

Steve Barasco advised cinematographer James Cameron on his film "Titanic'' and filmed the original in situ.