Lost City of Atlantis: Photos Topside, "The Grunt Work"

Posted Aug 16th 2006 1:04PM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Dive Sites, Events, Stories, Experts, Beach, Boat, Caribbean, Lost City of Atlantis

Creating the world's largest, entirely man-made underwater city off the island of Cayman Brac isn't an easy, overnight project. Just ask Foots, the artist building The Lost City of Atlantis from scratch. Recently, he sent me some photos that show how he's assembling Atlantis. The photos are all topside, but they clearly demonstrate the amount of work involved in this unusual project.

As we mentioned, Foots casts all the sculptures at home and then has to transport them to the beach. He can't carry them on his bicycle; he uses a truck to haul them there.

trailering

Imagine seeing this go down the road.

trailering2

trailering3

Of course, once the trailer reaches the beach, the concrete sculptures must be offloaded.

fork

fork2

fork3

fork4

You can't just throw dozens of life-sized concrete sculptures anywhere; you need to place them neatly, until you can move them to the water.

line

After a full day of trailering and offloading, Foots has nearly 20 sculptures ready to be placed underwater.

line2

And when they're there, they're going to look so cool!

Reader Comments

(Page 1)

1. When is it supposed to be finished?

Posted at 3:41PM on Oct 23rd 2006 by tyler

Add your comments

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags.

	Snorefest Food crimes Starbucks revamps its breakfast menu
Heidi Montag in Stella McCartney supports NASCAR Dress of the day - Castle Starr brushed silk dress in Ivory eBay WTF of the Day: Britney Spears reject costume	Kids, don't try this at home Chocolate mousse is a perfect summer dessert Holy awesome! Key Lime dream ice cream!
France's Oyster Industry In Trouble Naomi Campbell's Beau Buys Her $18.5 Million Apt. in Brazil Burberry Metallic Leather Shoulder Bag, Handbag of the Day	DNC & RNC have free bikes available! The end of the line for the Vespa PX Protection zones actually aren't protecting coral reefs