ABSTRACT
The author's initial research at National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) the working title of which was truthing gap seeks to problematize processes of geographic knowledge production by focussing on the implications of this extra-visual condition. Within the burgeoning field of data visualisation enormous increases in capacity have led to suggestion of paradigm shift towards a model whereby data drives the enquiry n 2008, charts the emergence of the sub-maritime within popular visual culture, from nineteenth-century illustrations for Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea through Disney rides to contemporary designs for the proposed Poseidon Mystery Island underwater resort. Together these reveal a progressive shift in the way in which undersea worlds have been imagined, from a space infused with awe to one of leisure. Various ideas inform a set of portraits of the author's oceanographic collaborators showing them with their eyes closed imagining the depths of the ocean: They are all looking elsewhere, seeing what is internal to the imagination.
