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00:00 The sculpture is life-sized casts and actually made from casting the individuals represented on the beach.
00:07 So life-sized, neutral marine cement casts of individuals in the community who have a very close association with the sea.
00:15 Two of the people that were cast were actually members of SOS Whitstable, but they represent a swimmer, a cold water swimmer,
00:22 the captain of the ship that sits within the Whitstable harbour that goes out to do trips,
00:28 the greta, which has been there for a long time, so Steve Norris, who's the captain there, he's been cast.
00:34 We've got a kite surfer and we've got an individual who works with the RNLI and his daughter, who was seven when she was cast.
00:42 So yeah, it's quite a formidable structure. It's been getting a lot of attention so far and it's essentially a permanent reminder
00:49 to individuals that there are things going on within our waterways that we're not happy about.
00:53 So we're super thrilled to have it on the beach.
00:55 I think there's kind of positive and negative things to take away from it.
00:58 Obviously, it's difficult that things aren't moving as quickly as possible and we really need the community to be fully engaged
01:05 with what we're doing to make change happen.
01:07 But there's also a lot of positivity to be taken from it in that when things are difficult, people in the community really do club together.
01:15 And we've seen such an amazing amount of support for what we've been doing in Whitstable.
01:19 It really has kind of brought people together, swimming groups, everyone that loves the sea has really got behind us
01:25 and supported us with everything that we're doing.
01:27 So yeah, positive and negative things to take away from it.
01:30 But definitely the kind of aspect of community here in Whitstable is so strong.
01:34 And we think the sculpture really represents that as much as it represents our kind of environmental fight to get our waterways nice and clean again.