Topics of conversation ranged from improving oyster habitats (one theory involved using an electric current to stimulate the creation of underwater limestone for the oysters to grow on) to methods of keeping students who are monitoring oysters "from sinking into the muck of Newark Bay".
Captain Kidd," for instance, combines historical re-creation with underwater excavation: it alternates between tracing Kidd's travels in the late 1600s and trying to prove that a newly discovered shipwreck is a vessel that was pivotal to his story.
Clearly, it's not all the seals' fault, but in large numbers these pinnipeds, each of whom consumes between ten and twenty pounds of sea life a day, may speed up the creation of an underwater monoculture.
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is known for his underwater creations: he was behind the world's first underwater sculpture park, off Grenada in the Caribbean; a submerged museum off the coast of Cancún, Mexico; and Ocean Atlas, the world's largest single underwater sculpture, in the Bahamas.
Underwater World has them!
Those words echoed his video announcement, which emphasized standard Democratic themes like job creation, a fair tax policy and relief for underwater mortgage holders.
His creations are unforgettable: The quicksilver villain of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"; the underwater phantasmagoria of "The Abyss"; the wet-and-wild ride of "Titanic"; movies that have occasionally seemed as much about what a director could do as should.
His concept of creating underwater "Aquaticas," as he calls habitable regions of the ocean, led to the creation of his own company, League of New Worlds, and the Atlantica Expeditions, which are attempting to build the first underwater settlement for permanent human colonization.
