In a theme park near Tampa, FL, you can see mermaids perform for you live since 1947. https://youtu.be/dUHPxsP8dzw The producers write on their website: "What do you get when you combine underwater fantasy with SCUBA technology? Why, you get mermaids, gliding and...
Australian Geographer Patrick Nunn opens a book of his with the following story told by a Chief of the Haida people of Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)."Young recalled, his people lived in northwest Haida Gwaii in a large village across from Frederick...
The Belgian animation movie and comic book from 1972 and 1973 is set around an artificial lake in a fictious mountain state in the Balkans. We do not learn much about the history of the lake but Tintin explains during the landing flight that a whole town had to be...
This classic Tintin comic story around an underwater city in a lake appeared first as a movie and a year later as a comic book. While the movie poster displayed various images from the movie in a rather playful manner, the first French language book edition had a much...
In the Belgian classic comic series Blake and Mortimer there appeared in 1955 an adventure set in the mythical city Atlantis. It's the seventh story in the series which started in 1950. What I find noteworthy is that the city Atlantis here undergoes several...
Waves are a popular element in Japanese arts and crafts, particularly in the many wood carvings from the 19. century, like the famous "Great Wave" (around 1830) by Hokusai. Here is an example, a small saucer from a random Asian food store in Germany: In an...
Already in 1986 the well known German news-magazine Der Spiegel published this image on it's front page. It depicts the Dome of Cologne, one of the most important cultural heritage sites of Germany, partially flooded. The visual strategies of the media have not...
The New Harbour in Bremerhaven is protected by a dike. Behind the dike lie the German Maritime Museum, the Klimahaus and further behind the city's center. Right behind the dike stands a sculpture to commemorate the danger of storm surges. Copper rings on the pole of...
This is from the New York times in 1959. thanks to Janet Grau for the lead!
Continental Shelf Station was an attempt at creating an environment in which people could live and work on the sea floor. Precontinent has been used to describe the set of projects to build an underwater "village" carried out by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in...
