Scuba Divers Should Follow These Top Artists

There is a growing number of artists that specialize in underwater work. From sculptures to paintings, the depth itself in which it is performed and left submerged adds mystique to their art. If diving is one of your hobbies and you would like to explore diving-related art, here’s a list of the top artists to follow on Instagram.

Carlos Hiller

Carlos Hiller has been into scuba diving for years, and most of the time he’s underwater he works passionately on his art.

Hiller is known for being a masterful oil painter, and for his preference in performing before a live audience.

Andre Laban

Painting underwater needs amazing skill- to hold your balance, for a steady hand, and proper breathing while you think and paint- and Andre Laban leads the pack of artists with the most paintings of such kind in the world.

When he’s not out there doing dive art, he works as a pilot of a mini submarine. He’s also a musician.

Jason deCaires Taylor

Jason deCaires Taylor has helped build underwater parks with the infusion of his underwater sculptures.

To witness him work in the depths of the sea should be an awesome experience. He took park in building such a park in Grenada, the first sculptures to be exhibited underwater and he’s been adding more ever since to other museums.

Frank Nash Murdoch

Frank Murdoch, as an artist, was good at many things. First he illustrated, and became known as an impressionist painter underwater.

A certain university had a project that examined the creativity of people under the influence of LSD , and Murdoch registered as a volunteer. Many of his masterpieces and paintings came as a byproduct of being a volunteer to this experiment.

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I The crusades tend to be thought of as a negative part of history thanks to a critical misunderstanding in the related terminology. When the first crusade started, it was referred to as "Iter," which means "journey" or "pilgrimage." Until the 12th and 13th century, there was no distinction between a crusade and a pilgrimage.

II The word crusade is derived from the Latin cruciata, which roughly translates to mark with a cross. In the earliest versions of the event, not all those who joined necessarily fought. Conversely, not all who partook in battle were assumed to take the cross. All told, the crusades were composed of nine separate campaigns.

III The journey known as "the crusade to the Holy Land" was sanctioned by the Pope. Its main objective was to wipe out Muslim rule, and the battles were infamous for their brutality. For example, in the Hussite crusade against the Bohemian Reformation that took place in the early 15th century, Czech philosopher, Jan Hus, was burned alive.

IV The crusades were sanctioned by the Pope mainly for religious reasons, though these wars were launched for other, more subversive factors too. Aside from ending heresy and paganism, they paved the way to conquering new territories, thus boosting the economy of the church and furthering its political influence.

V There were various motivators for people to join in on the crusades. Some volunteered to fight in exchange for a secure afterlife. They believed that through this one sacrifice, their sins would all be forgiven, and they would be granted a place in heaven. Others looked forward to seizing lands from conquered territory to enjoy in this lifetime.

VI Pope Innocent III initiated the Albigensian Crusade, a war that eliminated Catharism in southern France. The battles that took place were astonishingly violent. At one point, a furious crusader could no longer identify the heretics from the Christians and commanded his men to kill them all. Let God sort them out!