Splash Floating Classroom

SPLASH (Students Participating in Learning Aquatic Science and History) provides unique educational adventures aboard our operational steamboat, while inspiring children and adults to learn about aquatic science, local history and engineering. For over ten years, the SPLASH Steamboat Floating Classroom has delighted school and adult groups with 2 hour educational sails on the beautiful Delaware River in Lambertville, NJ. Younger students learn in a “hands-on” way about our watershed and ways to protect it; the importance of “river critters” (macroinvertebrates); the chemistry of the river and the balance needed to sustain life; the environmental history of the Delaware River through the local hero the American Shad. Each trip is a great opportunity to see wildlife - perhaps a bald eagle, cormorants, water snakes, blue herons. Students of all ages see first-hand “America’s First Great Invention” - the steamboat, as shared with them by the ship engineer. And, from the river, the history of our unique region comes alive – a crossing spot of the Continental Army, the homes and subjects of the New Hope Impressionists, the Bucks County Playhouse, a real shad fishery, the canals and the crossing point for canal boats, and much more.