Catalina Island Marine Institute

The Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) is a non-profit educational program founded in 1979 and run by Guided Discoveries on Santa Catalina Island, California.

It is the host to approximately 15,000 students a year, who visit it in school-organized trips and summer camps.^[1][2] Students at CIMI learn marine biology through activities such snorkeling, scuba diving, sailing, hiking, marine science labs, kayaking and squid dissections.^[3]

CIMI operates out of three facilities on Catalina Island: Toyon Bay (A private beach three miles northwest of Avalon, also known as Whites Landing. ), Fox Landing (Slightly north of Whites Landing ) , and Cherry Cove (a camp owned by the Boy Scouts of America).^[4]

References

1. Alvarez, Fred (April 9, 1995), "Rites of Passage Signal End of Fifth Grade", Los Angeles Times.
2. "Submersion in summer program yields results", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct 3, 1994.
3. "In class with sharks: something fishy for sixth graders out of school", Los Angeles Daily News, January 31, 2005, archived from the original on 2016-01-27.
4. "Entry in Marine, Coastal, and Watershed Resource Directory". coastal.ca.gov. California Coastal Commission. Archived from the original on 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2011-02-05.