TETHYS PROJECT-Around the World Ocean Burial (1986 to present)
What’s 26,000 miles long, weighs 237,000 pounds, is totally invisible to man, and yet more permanent than the Great Wall of China? The Tethys Project.
The Tethys Project is an ongoing Ocean Art Burial project to circle the globe with a necklace of granite cubes dropped in the ocean around the world. The cubes are 200 kilos each, 50 centimeters on a side. Dropped one every 100 miles, covering at the moment about 60% of the distance around the world. On five sides text and drawings are deeply cut into the granite, the last side has a map of the location, latitude and longitude of its position on the bottom.
A kind of granite graphic novel buried in the worlds oceans. NY artist Bob Schuler has been throwing granite texts and drawings into the worlds’ oceans since 1986.
Oceanographers speculate the blocks can survive from 60 to 200 million years depending on where they land on the ocean floor.
Tethys next leg is dropping granite cubes from the Galapagos to Tahiti a voyage of 3000 miles of open ocean.
Started in 1986 Bob Schuler has dropped granite markers every 100 miles from Red Sea through the Mediterranean Sea ,the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and into the Pacific as far as the Galapagos Islands. Text and drawings are cut into the granite blocks.
AN APP FOR THE OCEAN
We have a NEW APP to showcase W2O programs and offerings. Download the app for free today on the App Store by searching for "W2O". With the app installed you'll have access to our weekly World Ocean Radio broadcasts, each issue of the World Ocean Journal, updates to the World Ocean Forum blog, access to these monthly newsletters, and more—all in one easy-to-use app! We hope you'll download today, RATE AND REVIEW on the App Store, and let us know how it works!
THE ECONOMIST GROUP'S
WORLD OCEAN SUMMIT ASIA-PACIFIC
Investing in the Blue Economy
December 6-10, 2021
The W2O is pleased to be an Association Partner for the upcoming World Ocean Asia-Pacific. The agenda will provide the platform for nuanced conversation and tailored discussion to catalyze the blue economy in the Asia-Pacific. We will support the December summit throughout this year by sharing event details, research, reports and news as it relates to the World Ocean Summit.
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OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT:
WHERE MUSIC MEETS JOURNALISM
All music in this project is based on THE OUTLAW OCEAN, a New York Times best-selling book by Ian Urbina that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world. The reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun-running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships, and other topics. The music is an act of solidarity across geography and language, and an attempt at storytelling from written word to music. It is a captivating collection of inspired songs. Take your pick: listen to ambient tracks, classical, electronic or hiphop.
