Ocean Atlas sits on the western coastline of New Providence in Nassau, Bahamas.
The artwork depicts a local Bahamian girl carrying the weight of the ocean above her in reference to the Ancient Greek myth of Atlas, the Titan who held up the heavens.
Ocean Atlas is the largest single sculpture ever to be deployed underwater. It reaches five metres up from the sea floor to the surface and weighs over sixty tonnes. Due to the sheer scale of the sculpture, it had to be assembled underwater in sections using an ambitious new technique developed and engineered by Jason deCaires Taylor.
