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Ninety seconds on Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute
Shells are the reason to buy the ticket: more than a thousand from Jack Lightbourn's private collection, a better hour than the simulated dive. Save it for a wet weekday afternoon, when it stays open an hour longer.
The visit starts in the entrance hall on the upper floor, under a life-size replica squid, with the history of going underwater. Diving bells, a full-size replica of William Beebe's bathysphere and the Lightbourn shells fill the cases.
Blue Echo, a simulated submersible dive into the Bermuda Triangle, is the set piece, and it divides visitors: it is closer to theatre than to science.
The Teddy Tucker Shipwreck Gallery is quieter. It holds coral-crusted gold coins, belt buckles, gold toothpicks and small figurines, some of which look like rock until you read the label. In the treasure room, a copy of the emerald-set Tucker Cross disappears in front of you on cue.
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