What are the statues in the Cancun Underwater Museum designed to do? (2023)

What are the statues in the Cancun Underwater Museum designed to do?

The statues in The Silent Evolution show how some humans see their surrounding and embrace them while others hide their faces. Each statue was made to resemble members of a local fishing community where Taylor lives.

Their aim was to help protect the local coral reefs by proving a dedicated place for divers to explore Cancun's pristine waters. Construction began in 2009 and the museum opened one year later Today, there are over 500 sculptures placed within 2 separate section of Cancun National Marine Park.

Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, Grenada

Like any artificial reef, the statues ease environmental pressure by diverting activity from more natural reefs.

The museum has a total of 500 sculptures, most by the British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor and the others by five Mexican sculptors, with three different galleries submerged between three and six meters (9.8 and 19.6 ft ) deep in the ocean at the Cancún National Marine Park.

The Grenada Underwater Sculpture Park as it is known, is home to several of the sculptor's creations, and is the world's first underwater sculpture park. It is located off the West Coast of Grenada.

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The bronze statue was the work of Guido Galletti, inspired by a concept by Italian diver Duilio Marcante. It was to represent Christ in the new world below the waves, a memorial for all those who had lost their lives at sea and a monument to those who continued to dive beneath it.

Water´s nature

Every time we draw or picture water, blue is the color that comes to mind. This is because water molecules absorb green, orange, yellow, and every other color except blue. Blue color is reflected as the sunlight hits Cancun´s coast.

Diving Tours

The diving (non-certificate and certified) 5-hour tours from Cancun cost between $90 USD and $145 USD per person. From Isla Mujeres, prices range between $115 and $155 USD. You can decide what works best for you, your personal preferences, and your familiarity with water sports.

Ocean Atlas is the largest single sculpture ever to be deployed underwater. It reaches five metres up from the sea floor to the surface and weighs over sixty tonnes.

Where is the underwater statue of slaves?

At the ocean floor off the coast of Grenada stands the underwater sculpture of 26 children holding hands. Titled Vicissitudes, many have attributed the monument to those lost in the Atlantic Slave Trade, though sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor denies this purpose.

Dwarka, India

Also known as the Gateway to Heaven, the city of Dwarka was, reportedly, discovered in 1988, submerged around 100 ft below the Gulf of Cambay. Underneath, ancient structures, grids, pillars, and ancient artifacts were found.

The Cannes Underwater Museum is the first submerged art installation in the Mediterranean Sea, a museum created from six gigantic sculptures immersed near the seabed of the island of Sainte-Marguerite just off the French coast of Cannes.

Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA) is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater art attractions in the world. Located near the island of Isla Mujeres and the coast of Punta Nizuc in Cancún, the museum features over 500 permanent life-size sculptures created by Jason deCaires Taylor.

There are currently eight of them. The museum aims to raise public awareness of environmental issues, marine biology and to awaken people to the world of art and water sports (snorkeling, diving).

“It's euphoric when sunlight fires up all the colours of the sponges growing on the statues,” says Jason deCaires Taylor, creator of the 500 life-size sculptures that comprise this underwater installation off Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc, Mexico.

The Bahamas is now home to the world's largest underwater sculpture. Just off the coast of New Providence, Jason deCaires Taylor's Ocean Atlas is a 60-ton, 18-foot-tall statue of a young Bahamian girl who appears to be holding up the ocean, much like the mythological Titan Atlas shouldered the burden of the heavens.

They act as a stable base on which artificial reefs can form. Creating artificial reefs benefits marine life in two ways: by creating a reef system for life to thrive in, and by taking pressure off of natural reefs, which have been over-fished and over-visited.

Each sculpture is created using low carbon, pH neutral marine grade cement, which is free from harmful pollutants. The cement is highly durable with a rough texture that encourages coral larvae to attach and thrive, while nooks created throughout the sculpture designs provide homes for fish and crustaceans.

When was Ocean Atlas built?

In 2009 a monumental underwater museum called MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) was formed in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc.

In 2013, a statue of Jason Vorhees of Friday the 13th was built and installed underwater in Crosby, Minnesota. It's inspired by the events that transpired in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, when Jason is defeated by being chained to the bottom of the Crystal Lake.

There are sharks in Cancun but chances of being attacked by one are so remote as to not even give a second thought. Sharks are an essential part of the Caribbean ecosystem. Sharks have now become an intrinsic part of Cancun tourism.

The majority of Cancún doesn't have a plumbing system that works with toilet paper. Though some resorts might be capable of flushing toilet paper, it's generally better to throw toilet paper in a trash can instead. That being said, Cancún's Hotel Zone has a different water system than the rest of the area.