Spanning more than 65,000 square feet and featuring more than 150 exhibitors, the 9th Annual Blue Wild Ocean Adventure & Marine Art interactive Expo will include seminars and demonstrations covering watersports such as freediving, scuba, spearfishing, SUP, surf, and underwater photography and videography. Additional exhibits include adventure travel, beachwear fashion shows, water toys, and a boats.

Held annually at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, the event includes Nautical Ventures world-famous AquaZoneTM pool, where guests can try out new water toys and take part in professional demonstrations.

How-to seminars include dive safety, underwater photography, freediving, GoPro usage, spearfishing, from hosts such as; Emmy Award winning filmmaker Stan Waterman, outdoorsman and TV star Manny Puig, and Rescue Swimmers from the USCG. Marine artists on-hand include Carey Chen, Pascal Lecocq, Randall Scott, Steve Ozment, Craig Dietrich, Don Ray, K.C. Scott, and more.

In addition to providing the AquaZone, Nautical Ventures provides an impressive array of Kayaks and SUP’s including the New Hobie Mirage Eclipse Stand-Up Pedal Board. In fact, The Blue Wild will be the first public showing of this elusive Hobie product to the Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm market.

The 2016 Blue Wild Expo will be help April 23rd & 24th.