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Oceans cover approximately 71% of the Earth and support every living being's life, yet they remain mostly unknown and taken for granted. With this project I wanted to dive deeper, from the surface to the deepest depths, and learn to understand and love this key ecosystem. Grasping the extent of the effects of our actions has been a dazzling yet sad journey that has to be told and shared. I chose a visual style that could express the beauty and fragility of marine ecosystem, and one that could reach the imaginations of users and draw them into this incredible story.

Our Blue Planet is in a state of emergency.
The chemistry of seawater is changing faster than ever before with catastrophic consequences across the whole marine food web.
It's time for us to do something to change this.

Diving into an Acidifying Ocean is part of:

HEARTBEAT OF THE EARTH

a series of online climate artworks
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THE TEAM
Concept, Artistic & Creative Direction:Cristina Tarquini
Development & Effects:Graham Reeves
Sound Design:Antoine Bertin
Sound Assistant:Julien Fauconnier
Sounds created at: Sound Anything
3D Modelling & Texturing:Izaak Pardey
Additional VFX Technical Director:Adam Chabane
Additional Texture Artist:Florence Green
Copywriting:Helen Morgan

Thanks for the scientific advice to: Frederic Gazeau


DISCLAIMER
Every reasonable effort has been made to make this web experiment as accurate as possible. This web experiment is an expression by the artist to generate discussion, awareness and interest in Climate Change, the data behind it, and consequences of human inaction. Diving into an Acidifying Ocean is not intended as a validated source of scientific discoveries or processes.


RESOURCES
For this project the datasets used are the following:
Ocean Acidification: Surface pH by NOAA
Ocean-Atmosphere CO2 exchange by NOAA
WMO Provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 by World Meteorological Organization
All the resorces concerning the marine life used in this project can be found here.
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JELLYFISH

Bubblegum coral appear comfortable nearly everywhere outside of the tropics – where they can grow between 200 and 1300m of depth.

Deep-water corals are damaged beep-water corals are damaged beep-water corals are damaged beep-water corals are damaged beep-water corals are damaged beep-water corals are damaged by a number of things: deep-water trawling, long line fishing, and oil and gas exploration.

Like aragonitic corals, bubblegum corals are likely to be affected by changes in calcite saturation with depth.

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WHAT KIND OF OCEAN DO YOU WANT TO REMEMBER?
These are some of the things I try to do to reduce my carbon foot print and act consiously:
Recycle & use a Compost for organic food
Bike more, use public transport & electric vehicles
Reduce meat intake
& Eat seasonal and local
Refuse disposable plastic
Eat local fish and avoit it when landlocked,
look for sustainable labels
Choose sustainable and clean energy





We have laid eyes only on 5% of the Oceans even though the Earth's surface is made of 71% of water and the oceans hold about 96.5% of all the Earth's water.