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Underwater Sculptures Help Rebuild Reefs

Artist, Jason de Caires Taylor has created the world’s first underwater sculpture park. His sculptures shown below blend the lines of modern and ancient art while creating sustainable artificial substrates for reefs. 

Currently he is working on a sculpture series to be placed in the National Marine Park of Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Nisuc. Over 200 [...]

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Artist, Jason de Caires Taylor has created the world’s first underwater sculpture park. His sculptures shown below blend the lines of modern and ancient art while creating sustainable artificial substrates for reefs. 

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Currently he is working on a sculpture series to be placed in the National Marine Park of Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Nisuc. Over 200 pieces will be taking organic shapes and cues from Mayan narratives and will then be developed as artificial reefs using propagated corals on the structures. The final piece will be titled La Evolución Silenciosa.

His work is shockingly beautiful and arguably one of the only works that will continually become more beautiful with time.  Enjoy the additional photos.

For more information visit his website: Jason de Caires Taylor – Underwater Sculptures.

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  • that is very cool reminds me of the one in the keys
  • I just saw a feature of this on the Travel Channel!
  • I don't know about you, but some of those sculptures are creepy!
  • stunreefer
    Very cool... there are also a couple places you can have your ashes mixed with an aragocrete type material which is formed into a live-rock like structure, forever making you part of the reef :)
  • Brandon
    That is pretty cool. Why just throw rock down lets create shapes for the corals to decorate as they see fit.
  • Nicholas Sadaka
    That's absolutely, positively awesome! What a fantastic idea and what a great job making it work. I'm speechless!
  • I wonder if, in 3,000 or 5,000 years, some new culture will come across these and wonder "who built these and where did they go?"...
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