‘Embracing the Sea’, was commissioned by Dover District Council’s Charity Committee and funded by a bequest from Deal solicitor Frank Seymour Kennett, who died in 1975.

Embracing the Sea was designed and crafted by the sculptor, Jon Buck. Standing 10ft high, it weighs 3 tonnes and is cast in bronze. It depicts the figure of a man held afloat on a suggested sea of large fish. His arms encircle one of the fish lifting it from the water, thus engendering the notion that in living from the sea we must also respect and not abuse it.

The sculpture is sited on the apron front at Deal Pier. The prize money was used to commission further public art on Deal Pier.