Volna is best known for two series of Swiss watches, the Heritage collection of subaquatic sports watches whose design was inspired by the legacy of the Soviet submarine naval forces, and the Volnatomic line, bearing the black-and-yellow toxic nuclear symbol and skulls.
Taking inventory of the Hudson River's water celery beds (a type of subaquatic vegetation) was a good excuse to spend a summer morning in a kayak, but when the numbers reflected measurable facts about water quality, my connection to the river became stronger.
The main elements are large, cheerfully colored fiberglass blobs resembling extraterrestrial or subaquatic life forms as imagined by the makers of "Ghostbusters".
Representatives of the show's shark population – from Sergeant Sam Roderick to Donald The Shark – are sadly absent from proceedings, but their standing in this subaquatic soap opera is perfectly clear: SpongeBob is less interested in jumping the shark than swimming rings around it.
Suddenly we're intercepted by some sort of submersible pod, from which enemy divers emerge instigating a brief subaquatic fire fight.
A surprise appearance by subaquatic, recently deceased femmes fatales is another popular trope; the distaff dead, like U-boats, do not like to surface.
"The expedition clearly has found a subaquatic landscape with materials that belong to the period before the inundation," said Dr. Bruce Hitchner, an archaeologist at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and editor of the journal, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America.
They could be seen as a subaquatic version of fireworks; Mr. Jun sees them as the souls of the drowned, released from their bodies and dispersed into the sea.
Labor-intensive and intensely active, Raqib Shaw's paintings look like X-rated, subaquatic hybrids of Hieronymus Bosch, Victorian fairy painting, Persian miniatures and Bollywood films of the Ramayana.
They make the gallery feel subaquatic and give Ms. Judge's work the look of tide-washed sand.
