Letters supporting the Project.
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Dear Pedro,
Oct 21, 2016. 16:11 PM
Thank you for your inquiry. I am travelling now, but when I next meet with the ICMM Executive Council in November, I will raise this request with them. It seems like a marvelous project and I wish you well. There is no funding available from ICMM as we are strictly a member organization. We typically do not support individual work. Do represent an organization? If so, please send me a website link.
Respectfully, Steve C. White President ICMM The Museum of America and the Sea 75 Greenmanville Ave. P.O. Box 6000 Mystic, CT 06355 860-572-5330
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BUOY SEA SCULPTURE LOCATED IN THE GULF OF GUINEA. 0 ° LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE 0 ° Date: 29 October 2015. Intellectual Property # 203088. Year 2011. Author: Pedro Villanueva Gonzalez. Contact: Casillas correos 170. Punta Arenas. Chile Email: pedrovilla74@yahoo.com
General objective: Fabricate and install the sculpture buoy that was located at latitude 0° and longitude 0 ° Specific objectives: 1 – To Promote the project towards an institution which represents and international project finance. The institution that represents will have an enormous advertising as a benefit. 2 - Create a team of marine engineers to achieve a project optimal and economical. 3 - Seek advice and support to the International Association of maritime signaling to ensure the safety of the buoy international sculpture. 4- Make the sculpture sea buoy with materials with minimum environmental damage. 5 - Move by sea sculpture buoy to the Gulf of Guinea at 0 ° latitude and longitude 0 ° 6 - Invite to the authorities and to the public at the opening of the project carried out on the high seas. 7 – To promote sculpture buoy as cultural heritage.
Rationale: The idea for the project was created by the author to be aware of the lack of a monument or historic float in a position as important as it is in latitude 0 ° and 0 ° longitude in the center of the Earth or Gulf of Guinea. The project promoted through a sketch has been well received on the internet and the public requesting the author realize the project. Did you know that Quito is in the middle of the world? Yes, and - 0 "is its latitude 0° 0' which makes this city and the country unique. Where there is a monument and is Equatorial Museum that consists of nine floors where it has a viewpoint which gives a spectacular view of the Equinox Valley 30 meters in height. It is also another monument, the famous Greenwich Meridian or zero Meridian, Meridian base or Prime Meridian, it is the Meridian from which wavelengths are measured. This corresponds to the 8
imaginary circumference that unites poles and is named after crossing through the English town of Greenwich, in particular by its ancient astronomical observatory It is located on the South Bank of the River Thames, United Kingdom. The District of Greenwich is known for its maritime history and as the place where the zero Meridian.
Description: Sculpture buoy is a floating subfloor or floating circular of 4 meters in diameter section. On the surface the monoliths are shaped rectangular with a height of 2 meters and separated in about 20 cm. Each monolith has 50 cm wide. In the middle of the sculpture buoy is a tower maritime flashlight with solar panels, antennas and security system. Sculpture buoy is constructed with resistant plastic material, acrylic Plexiglas with several cm thick high-strength before impacts, heat stroke, storm and is not toxic or corrosive. Sculpture buoy is attached with a string of mooring of stainless steel and of long duration, the bottom has stabilizers maritime power and a connecting flange. The network is subjected to heavy and coated with material concrete block for the care of the marine environment and that goes into the depths of the sea. There are seven monoliths each with different colors. Each monolith represents a continent with one color, since the Plexiglas acrylic comes with colors. The seven colors of the Rainbow representing the seven continents Asia, North America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, South America and Antarctica. It is a representation of the union of the peoples of the Earth and the beauty of the planet. Cultural impact: Sculpture buoy would represent a significant impact as a cultural heritage of mankind, as a tourist and educational reference for transport means visiting the Gulf of Guinea. A valuable contribution towards geography, education, culture and tourism.
See sketch:
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