Journey to the bottom of the sea without getting wet.

Join Diver Ed aboard the Starfish Enterprise for the most entertaining and memorable experience of your Maine visit. This interactive, underwater (for Diver Ed, anyway) adventure is for all ages.

The two-hour underwater extravaganza the whole family will love!

DIVE-IN THEATER with Diver Ed

See! Watch a real-time video as Diver Ed and Mini-Ed brave the depths of Frenchman Bay in search of adventure.
Learn! You would not think oceanography would be so much fun and up close and personal!
Touch! Hold amazing creatures of the deep like starfish, sea cucumbers, crabs, and scallops.
Laugh! Diver Ed and the cast of undersea characters will have everyone laughing.

Journey to the bottom of the sea without getting wet.

Join Diver Ed aboard the Starfish Enterprise for the most entertaining and memorable experience of your Maine visit. This interactive, underwater (for Diver Ed, anyway) adventure is for all ages.

The two-hour underwater extravaganza the whole family will love!

DIVE-IN THEATER with Diver Ed

THE SHOW

Two-hour adventures daily at 9:30am and 1:00pm
(Except Sundays)

Your adventure begins after a short cruise to a dive location in Frenchman Bay.

On the way out Diver Ed and Nori, the Newfoundland, will welcome you aboard. After setting anchor, Diver Ed and Mini-Ed don their dive gear. Diver Ed heads to the back of the boat where the kids get to push him overboard.

Now get ready to roll up your sleeves.

Diver Ed and Mini-Ed return to the boat – and so do the creatures! Touch tanks allow you to observe, handle, and sometimes even kiss, these strange and mysterious beings before they are returned safely to the sea. You will be amazed at the colors, the textures and the variety of animal life beneath the waves.

Then we send them all safely home.

All of the creatures are returned safely to sea, and we head back to the dock.

Dive-in Theater featured on Jonathan Bird’s Blue World

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You will see and learn about sea critters, ecology, the ocean, Maine, and life underwater.

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What to expect

BOAT & CREW

Diver Ed

Graduate of College of the Atlantic, commercial dive and scuba instructor, former Bar Harbor harbormaster, and Smithsonian marine ecologist

Captain Evil

Diver Ed's wife, child psychologist, boat captain, and naturalist

Mini Ed

Diver Ed's sidekick, a 3-inch tall Playmobil hard hat diver

Nori

Purebred water-rescue Newfoundland and beloved dog

El Squid

Captain Evil's sweet sister and reservation agent

Creatures

Hermit crabs, starfish, sea urchins, sea peaches, and all their friends

Starfish Enterprise

A very stable 51-foot, 70-passenger U.S. Coast Guard certified vessel purpose-built by Diver Ed and Captain Evil

You!

From anywhere to Maine and ready for adventure

and a supporting cast...

Bilge Rat El Squid's charming daughter and reservation agent

League of Underwater Superheroes Diver Ed's local club for diving adventures

CALL

DIVE-IN THEATER

with Diver Ed

Operating from Bar Harbor for the 2022 season!

Journey to the bottom of the sea without getting wet.

The two-hour underwater extravaganza the whole family will love!

DIVE-IN THEATER with Diver Ed

Journey to the bottom of the sea without getting wet.

The two-hour underwater extravaganza the whole family will love!

DIVE-IN THEATER with Diver Ed

THE SHOW

Two-hour adventures daily at 9:30am and 1:00pm
(Except Sundays)

Your adventure begins after a short cruise to a dive location in Frenchman Bay.

Now get ready to roll up your sleeves.

Then we send them all safely home.