How I made the trays

Inspiration

Jason deCaires Taylor - Underwater Sculpture

Inspiration

Damien Hirst and his work of animal preservation

Process

How to make your own ice cube trays

Sketches For Projects

Jar Of Ice

  

 Message in a bottle

Nature Capsules 

Brain Map

Coool!

Plant Link

Inspiration

Inspiration

http://www.underwatersculpture.com/

Natural Phenomena

The natural phenomena I choose to research, was is the preservation of bodies and ships in Lake Superior due to the cold temperature and lack of animals.  In specific for this project I will study the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald and how through natural processes the bodies and the boat are still intact. 

            The Edmund Fitzgerald was a frater ship, used to take iron ore from Wisconsin to the Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.  On the night of November 10, 1975, the Fitzgerald was caught in a storm.  The ship took on too much water, and with the weight of the water and the weight of the iron ore the ship sank.  The ship sank in Lake Superior.  All 29 members of the crew went down with the ship and the ship still lay on the bottom of the lake.   The ship sank approximately 17 miles down into the cold waters of the Superior.   Frequent dives were done to see the ship until the Canadian government put a permanent ban, after multiple requests from the families of the fallen sailors. 

The ship today serves as a underwater graveyard.  On the dives previous to the ban, the divers said they saw the bodies of the sailors in impeccable condition for being submerged for that period of time.  This is due to the naturally cold waters and lack of animal life in Lake Superior.   Usually when casualties of shipwrecks are discovered they have reached the surface due to the heat of the water causing the body to fill with gas and float up, or onto shore. With the coldness of the lake, the bodies are kept in a freezer, of 20 degrees Fahrenheit.  New information is showing the due to global warming the temperature of the lakes seems to be rising, and this summer (summer of 2012) was the warmest temperature for lake superior, with a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  I personally have been fascinated with the natural phenomena of the preservation of the bodies due to the coldness since I was a little child, and I heard a story of it through my times on my lake house on lake Huron.  I originally thought it to be false, though through research, I found it to be true and a phenomenal. 

SOURCES: 

"Isle Royale : Scuba Diving." National Parks Service. National Parks Service, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 25 Jan. 2013.

Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. New York: Bloomsbury Pub., 2005. Print.

Grady, Wayne, Bruce M. Litteljohn, and Emily S. Damstra. The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region. Vancouver: Greystone, 2007. Print.