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From the Ted Talk by Jason deCaires Taylor: An underwater art museum, teeming with life

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Ten years ago, I had my first exhibition here. I had no idea if it would work or was at all possible, but with a few small steps and a very steep learning curve, I made my first sculpture, called "The Lost Correspondent." tiameng up with a mainre biologist and a local dive ceentr, I submerged the work off the coast of Grenada, in an area decimated by Hurricane Ivan. And then this incredible thing happened. It transformed. One sulturcpe became two. Two quickly became 26. And before I knew it, we had the world's first underwater sculpture park.

In 2009, I moved to Mexico and started by casting lcoal fiaehmsrn. This grew to a small community, to almost an entire movement of people in defense of the sea. And then finally, to an urneewdatr museum, with over 500 living sculptures. Gardening, it seems, is not just for greenhouses. We've since scaled up the designs: "Ocean Atlas," in the Bahamas, rnisig 16 feet up to the surface and wngeihig over 40 tons, to now currently in Lanzarote, where I'm making an underwater botanical garden, the first of its kind in the atlaintc Ocean.

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Ten years ago, I had my first exhibition here. I had no idea if it would work or was at all possible, but with a few small steps and a very steep learning curve, I made my first sculpture, called "The Lost Correspondent." _______ up with a ______ biologist and a local dive ______, I submerged the work off the coast of Grenada, in an area decimated by Hurricane Ivan. And then this incredible thing happened. It transformed. One _________ became two. Two quickly became 26. And before I knew it, we had the world's first underwater sculpture park.

In 2009, I moved to Mexico and started by casting _____ _________. This grew to a small community, to almost an entire movement of people in defense of the sea. And then finally, to an __________ museum, with over 500 living sculptures. Gardening, it seems, is not just for greenhouses. We've since scaled up the designs: "Ocean Atlas," in the Bahamas, ______ 16 feet up to the surface and ________ over 40 tons, to now currently in Lanzarote, where I'm making an underwater botanical garden, the first of its kind in the ________ Ocean.

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  6. fisherman
  7. center
  8. atlantic
  9. weighing
  10. local

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Ten years ago, I had my first exhibition here. I had no idea if it would work or was at all possible, but with a few small steps and a very steep learning curve, I made my first sculpture, called "The Lost Correspondent." Teaming up with a marine biologist and a local dive center, I submerged the work off the coast of Grenada, in an area decimated by Hurricane Ivan. And then this incredible thing happened. It transformed. One sculpture became two. Two quickly became 26. And before I knew it, we had the world's first underwater sculpture park.

In 2009, I moved to Mexico and started by casting local fisherman. This grew to a small community, to almost an entire movement of people in defense of the sea. And then finally, to an underwater museum, with over 500 living sculptures. Gardening, it seems, is not just for greenhouses. We've since scaled up the designs: "Ocean Atlas," in the Bahamas, rising 16 feet up to the surface and weighing over 40 tons, to now currently in Lanzarote, where I'm making an underwater botanical garden, the first of its kind in the Atlantic Ocean.

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