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An Australian adventurer emerged from the bottom of a lake yesterday after spending nearly two weeks living underwater, riding a bike to generate electricity and using algae to produce oxygen.
The ‘world’s first self-sufficient, self-sustaining underwater habitat’.
Breathing air provided by algae soaked in his own urine, “aquanaut” Lloyd Godson spent 12 days living in a yellow steel capsule submerged in a flooded gravel pit.
The Underwater Sculpture Gallery in Grenada, West Indies is a project started in May 2006 by sculptor Jason Taylor, with the support of the Grenadian Ministry of Tourism and Culture. This is a unique artistic enterprise, celebrating Caribbean culture and highlighting environmental processes, such as coral reef re-generation.The Underwater Sculpture Park also explores the ever-changing relationships of Art and the environment, whilst providing a unique and fascinating marine park for scuba diving and snorkelling.
Please visit the link to the artist’s site. It is brilliant.
Down under the sea, where sunlight never creeps, miners soon may be working the world’s biggest “strip mine.” For large areas of the ocean floor are covered with nodules of manganese and other minerals — a treasure trove too precious to overlook! Huge hydraulic dredges, working like vacuum cleaners, will draw ore up to a barge, supervised by bathyscaphes and submarines . . .
A vision of inner space by the artist Jo Kotula, also from 1959, for Vanadium Corporation of America.
Found at Plan59.
When we were in love, I pretended you didn’t exist
That way, I loved you more
You suggested we get married and move into a house
I suggested that we jump overboard
and live underwater
in the lost city of Atlantis
where mermaids sing
and tuxedoed dolphins bring you breakfast
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