VIDEO: Sheikh Hamdan shares videos of Mexico’s Underwater Museum - GulfToday

VIDEO: Sheikh Hamdan shares videos of Mexico’s Underwater Museum

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A video grab shows Sheikh Hamdan touching a sculpture.

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, shared a series of videos of deep sea diving in Mexico on his Instagram account.

Sheikh Hamdan toured underwater concrete sculptures in Mexico’s Cancún Underwater Museum.

A video showed the crown prince approached the famous Volkswagen Beetle Sculpture, which at the ocean floor at the museum. British sculptor and diver Jason deCaires Taylor added the cement structure to the museum.

Hamdan-SeaA screen-grab taken from the video.

Then the Dubai Crown Prince swam around the dozens of life-size statues. It is believed that there are over 400 sculptures underwater off the coast of Isla de Mujeres.

Then the Dubai Crown Prince swam around the dozens of life-size statues. It is believed that there are over 400 sculptures underwater off the coast of Isla de Mujeres.

Sheikh Hamdan is an avid lover of nature and animals. He shares breathtaking photographs and videos of his whereabouts on Instagram.

The Cancún Underwater Museum, is also known as MUSA, is a non-profit organisation based in Cancún, Mexico devoted to the art of conservation.

The museum has a total of 500 sculptures, most by Taylor and the others by five Mexican sculptors, with three different galleries submerged between three and six metres deep in the ocean at the Cancún National Marine Park.

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