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COMING SOON AN UNDERWATER SCULPTURE GARDEN OFF THE COAST OF CARRICOU! Thirty boats. Thirty young students, standing in stainless steel craft. You can look for them this fall off Carriacou's west coast, but don't look for them bobbing in the gentle seas of Carriacou and Petit Martinique. You need to look for them underwater! No, we aren't exposing some mass sailing disaster. We are talking about a new work of art by the world-famous underwater artist Jason deCaires Taylor (PICTURED BELOW) . His latest work, "A World Adrift," is set to create an underwater sculpture garden with the government's help. “I am setting them down near a small rocky outcrop to the west of Carriacou called Jack O Dan,” Taylor told the Caribbean Camera. “A local marine dive services operation will be contracted to deploy the works under my supervision this July.” “Crafted from high-grade stainless steel and pH-neutral green cement, each boat resembles paper origami to depict the fragil...

 ' Divers take note - Jason deCaires Taylor's  Museo Atlantico now open By Stephen Weir Underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor just got serious.  The British diving artist who has created large underwater sculpture gardens in the waters of Grenada and Mexico. has just launched a project in the waters of the Canary Islands that acknowledges the plight of boat people. While his Caribbean sunken galleries have tended to be playful, sometimes religious, the newest project of the 41-year old, skewers important world is su es from climate chage to conservation to migration. Earlier this month he opened the first phase of Museo Atlantico – an art project he describes as “the first underwater contemporary art museum in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.” There are 300 life-sized figures standing at bottom 14 metres down – more are on the way. “ It is still in construction, over 250 more works will be added in the coming year” the artist told Diver Maga...