The world's largest underwater sculputure, created by artist Jason deCaires Taylor, is also a reef.
The sculpture of a 17-foot-tall, 60-ton girl holding the weight of the shoreline with her shoulders was installed off the coast of the Bahamas earlier this month.
"Ocean Atlas" is a rendition of Atlas, the Titan of Greek mythology whose eternal punishment of holding the world on his back, explains Forbes.
Made to last, "Ocean Atlas" has a high-density, pH-neutral marine cement, which will allow the sculpture (which also serves as a manmade reef for fish) to last hundreds of years, as Forbes reports.
"It was [created] using 3D scans and a layered mould," Taylor wrote in an email to Forbes. "Once the individual sections were made, a series of interlocking keys ensured the pieces located themselves underwater. The challenge was to get each piece to not weigh more than 12 tons."
This was not Taylor's first time creating an underwater sculpture; the artist has an entire website dedicated to underwater sculptures.
"Ocean Atlas" was by far his biggest underwater sculpture.
