good morning guys from cancun mexico so i'm here mainly for one reason and that is to do
what we're doing today as you saw by the intro there we're about to see underwater sculptures
this place looks like a sunken ship or like the contents of a sunken ship or something explosion
it's a bunch of people sculptures of life-size people objects it's gonna be very cool
so you have a few options for this place but two are the main ones that i know about which is you
can either snorkel or you can scuba dive i am scuba certified so i could have done that to get
closer to the sculptures but i just wanted to be like i just want it to be a lot easier i just want
to go into the water naturally and be able to get down close on my own by free diving if possible
um so i'm gonna go snorkeling and we will get as close as we can
get a glimpse into what we're about to see down there
that's just
okay we got to our spot we're waiting for the divers and we're gonna go all right let's go
um there's a reason this place exists it isn't only a tourist destination
these sculptures were put here for a good reason since cancun has been very popular among tourists
for many years hundreds of thousands of people have come here to snorkel and scuba dive
which has had a dramatic effect of the coral reefs and the marine life close by
so they decided to put this underwater sculptured garden in a new spot in order to give some of the
other diving spots a break from people allowing them to grow and flourish again
there are more than 500 sculptures here in three different galleries
the sculptures are made from a cement mix that encourage coral plankton and seaweed growth
on the surface making them more effective than the use of sunken cars and ships to grow reefs
some are drilled up holes to allow life to populate inside the openings
all right i'm going to try and screw down
do
probably just a few years old but there is an older one from the 60s
i recommend that you scuba dive if you're certified rather than snorkel
and developed in more touristy locations like this safety is a big concern and so they didn't
want to let me take off my life vest in order to free dive which is something i've been working on
so you're basically stuck at the surface so if you want to get close to these sculptures
make sure you dive i did get a short time to take off my life vest to get a little bit closer
these ones are called the bankers and they're sticking their heads
into the sand because they don't care about the world around them i don't care
what's happening they don't care where their money's going they only care about their own
so this underwater museum was built over the last
10 years some of these were put here 10 years ago and some just for the last five or three years
a lot more to see
over there so that it would give
us
the other places
so so
it's pretty beautiful scuba diving seems like maybe the way to go this is fun but
to get down there with everything around the statues with the fish
wow
oh
well guys that was real cool experience i like experiences like that that are promoting something
good in the environment so the coral in a new area less diving an old area where it was getting bad
and it's sorry apart that's underwater so that is awesome now i'm going to a place that i think many
of you have heard of you really have to check it out because i've heard so much about this place
we're about to go to tulum
you