FSA RECS

10/09/2026

💜 We’re looking for more vendors for our FREE Epilepsy Awareness Event! Join FSA RECS,Cafe' and Floating Sea Aquatics as we bring our community together for awareness, inclusion, and connection.

This event is especially close to our hearts. This year, we lost Samuel Barbosa, a beloved member of our family and one of our dedicated volunteers, to epilepsy. We honor his life, his kindness, and the difference he made in our community.

Around 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, according to the World Health Organization. Behind every number is a person, a family, and a story. Awareness and compassion matter. 💜

🌊 Be on the lookout for the Ripple Effect Challenge, coming very soon in Samuel’s memory. We’ll share how you can help carry his kindness forward—one meaningful act at a time.

📍 FSA RECS & Floating Sea Aquatics
8661 Old Kings Rd. S., Jacksonville, FL 32217

🎟️ FREE admission!
📧 Interested in being a vendor? Contact [email protected].

09/26/2026

09/17/2026

💙💛 INCLUSION DAY IS COMING! 💛💙

Join us at Floating Sea Aquatics & Café on September 26 for an unforgettable day celebrating Down syndrome, diversity, inclusion, and belonging!

Doors open at 11:00 AM
The celebration begins at 11:30 AM
Festivities continue until 3:00 PM

We are incredibly excited to welcome our special guest, Caleb Prewitt! Come meet this amazing athlete and enjoy a day filled with fun, encouragement, and genuine inclusion.

At Floating Sea Aquatics & Café, we believe inclusion should happen all the time, not only during special events. Every person deserves to feel welcomed, valued, celebrated, and included.

🎟️ TICKETS

$10 when purchased in advance
$15 when purchased on the day of the event

Purchase your tickets early and save!

🙋‍♀️ WE NEED FIVE VOLUNTEERS!

We are looking for five enthusiastic and dependable volunteers to help make this special day unforgettable. Volunteers may assist with welcoming guests, activities, serving, organization, and keeping everything running smoothly.

If you would like to volunteer, please message us as soon as possible. Volunteer opportunities are limited to five people.

Come celebrate Down syndrome, diversity, extraordinary people, and the beautiful strength of an inclusive community!

💙💛 Everyone belongs. Everyone matters. Everyone adds something special. 💛💙

09/14/2026

This is Samuel.

A joyful little boy playing with his baby brother. A young baseball player. A high school wrestler. A determined martial artist who wanted so badly to become the youngest to earn his black belt. He set that goal, worked for it, and earned it.

Samuel grew into an extraordinary, strong, loving, and well rounded young man. Throughout his life, he also endured severe and debilitating epilepsy. Because the disease affected his brain, people could not see the battle he was fighting simply by looking at him.

Samuel’s story reminds us that we cannot always see what another person is going through. We often judge what we see on the outside without understanding the illness, pain, grief, fear, or private struggles taking place within.

He fought in more ways than most people ever knew. His courage mattered. His life mattered. His ripple continues through the Samuel Barbosa Memorial Touch Tank in Floating Sea Café.

Soon, FSA RECS will invite our community to take the Ripple Effect Challenge in Samuel’s loving memory, right here in Floating Sea Café.

Choose understanding before judgment.

Choose kindness before assumptions.

One small act can create a ripple that never ends.

The Ripple Effect Challenge is coming soon.

Fight on, fighter.

09/03/2026

💙 PLEASE JOIN US 💙

Dear Community,

Please come out and support the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Samuel Jacob Barbosa Memorial Touch Tank.

September 8 at 5:30 PM

Floating Sea Aquatics
8661 Old Kings Rd. S.
Jacksonville, FL 32217

Come help us honor Samuel’s life and celebrate the ripple of love, kindness, service, and encouragement that one life can leave behind.

His life mattered.
His love mattered.
His ripple continues. 💙

From all of us at FSA RECS, thank you for being part of a community that comes together to love, serve, educate, rescue, and make a difference.

We hope to see you there! ❤️

FSA RECS
Rescue • Education • Conservation • Service