Year of the Ocean

Year of the Ocean. . , 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:, [Caption texts read] , [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 and 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 and 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