Selfie taking tourists and drowned refugees are the muses for some of the figures in a new underwater museum in the Canary Islands
' 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 Magazine.