Intermediate Grenada
Grenada
A hundred-and-eighty-metre ocean liner on the bottom, and a museum of submerged sculptures at ten
In 1961, a hundred-and-eighty-metre ocean liner sank off the coast. It's still there today, lying between thirty and fifty metres, with current running over it and too large to see whole in a single dive.
In this guide you'll find what the Caribbean's largest wreck demands, what the submerged sculpture park is that paved the way for an idea later copied across half the world, how drift diving works here, when to go, and at what level.
Grenada is where large wreck diving and the idea of the artificial reef as a public work cross paths: two very different ways of putting structure on the seabed and watching what life does with it.
Geography and access
Grenada is the southernmost island of the Lesser Antilles arc, of volcanic origin, at the gateway to the southern Caribbean.
The west coast, sheltered from the prevailing wind, concentrates almost all the diving, with a seabed that drops off gradually.
Off the capital, on the drop-off toward deep water, rests the hull of an ocean liner sunk in 1961, today the largest diveable wreck in the Caribbean.
North of that area, a shallow bay holds a collection of submerged sculptures installed starting in 2006, the first installation of its kind in the world.
The south of the island and the cays to the north add reefs, shoals, and channels where the current allows for drift dives.
Access is by international flight to the island, with connections from Europe and North America.
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