The British Virgin Islands, located in the Caribbean, is highly dependent on fishing and tourism for its economy. It also faces serious threats to the local natural ecology due to overfishing. In July this year, Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the British Virgin Group, and international philanthropists and artists decided to carry out the BVI Art Reef project to sink the Kodiak Queen, a surviving battleship from World War II, into Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The sea area will be transformed into a magnificent underwater art gallery and a base for the restoration of underwater natural ecosystems such as corals and fish. It will also help increase the income of diving operators and boost the local economy.
The Kodiak Queen was one of five warships to survive Pearl Harbor after World War II. Before the ship sank, the team specially placed a giant octopus on the roof of the Kodiak Queen, so that one "fish" and one ship could stay together two by two on the seabed and depend on each other. Now, several months after sinking to the bottom of the sea, the giant octopus seems to have a good relationship with the Kodiak Queen and is inseparable. The artificial island reef of the Kodiak Queen has unknowingly become the best diving adventure dreamed by many divers. place.
