If the Oceans of the world perish, so shall we. This mural was painted in celebration of the "International Year of the Ocean", and is a brief glimpse into the story of ocean science on the west coast. A mere fraction of the story is depicted here.
The mural is a dream of the Ocean, and like a dream it flows across a montage of images floating through space and time. Beginning in the distant past, with an Ancient Navigator lovingly holding our Ocean planet, it ends with a question and our hope for the future:
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[Instruments] Astrolabe, Quadrant, Sextant
"K-4", the first navigational chronometer, was used by Capt. Cook to chart his voyages
Coastline from Pacific charts circa 1700
Cartouche from an early Russian map: "On this Coast in the Year 1741 was Captain Chirikov"
Captain Cook's ship HMS Resolution
Sea ape (drawing from Steller's journals, in the 1800's)
Black smokers (where, it is believed, life originally emerged)
Tube worms
Spider crab
ROPOS, a Canadian unmanned submersible for deep sea exploration
Humpback whale & drift net
Tethered Nuyt suit
Diatoms (red tide)
Pisces III, a Canadian built manned scientific submarine
Ocean warming: 1850 to 2050 (charted at UVIC)
Scientists and crew on the CCGS JP Tully pulling a 1.5 mile long line of equipment and floats from deep in the Pacific
Current meters by Applied Microsystems and ESI Environmental Sensors Inc.
Topex-Poseiden Satellite: for ocean science communications
Solar powered wave meter by Axys Technologies
St. Catherine, a research and weather ship
Ocean eddies
Pacific viperfish from the benthic zone
Mesocosm: a reminder of an important scientific study undertaken in the Saanich Inlet by IOS
Chaetoceros convoltus: an organism that attacks fish by attaching to their gills
PCB molecule & Dioxin molecules, which persist throughout the marine food chain
Fisgard Light
Scientific advice and assistance was provided by
The Institute of Ocean Sciences, UVIC, and many other BC science and high tech companies.
Artist: Icebear
www.icebearstudio.com
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