Cuban artist Sandor Gonzalez paints underwater in Punta Perdiz, Cuba, June 18, 2019. VOA
"I really did not expect to see somebody under water, painting!" exclaimed Canadian tourist Mike Festeryga, who saw Gonzalez while diving along the seabed.
The state-run dive center at Punta Perdiz, on Cuba's southern coast, some 172 km (107 miles) from Havana, said his work was an extra draw for tourists.
"For tourists, it's really a novelty," said Hector Hernandez, who has been working as a dive instructor in the area for more than 28 years.
Gonzalez, who makes a living selling work at his studio in Havana for a median price of $1,000 per canvas, exhibits some of his submarine work in the Punta Perdiz dive center.
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He is now hoping to get state permission to sell the work and develop the area as a center for underwater art.
"I would like for a department of submarine painting to be created," he said. "I don't think anything like that exists yet anywhere in the world." (VOA)