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Oficially "Instituto da Pesca de Santos" or in english: Santos Fishing Institute, the Museu de Pesca at Santos city, in São Paulo State, was created over the ruins of the Forte Augusto, a fortification built in 1734 and it runs to the ends of the 19th century. In the beginning of the 20th century the fort used to be completely destroid and after a restoration, the Brazilian Navy had built another building to serve as an formation institute for aprentice seamen that runs until 1930 when the facilities was transformed in the São Paulo State Fishing School. After the arrivel of the whale skeleton, the school was turned into a museum specializated in the professional oceanic fishing.
Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.
