Grand Mal Bay

Grand Mal Bay north of St. George's harbour shelters three deliberately sunk wrecks — the Shakem, King Mitch, and Boss Man — resting between 15 and 30 metres on a rubble and sand bottom. The Shakem, a 30-metre freighter, is the most intact and is now almost entirely covered in coral and sponge growth; her holds are packed with glassy sweepers and bigeye tuna-sized French grunts. The bay acts as a nursery for juvenile fish, and the proliferation of small organisms on the wrecks attracts macro subjects including nudibranchs, arrow crabs, cleaning shrimp, and flamingo tongue cowries. The shallow reef between the wrecks harbours one of Grenada's denser colonies of staghorn coral — a species that has declined sharply across the wider Caribbean — and the regeneration here is considered a local conservation success. Nurse sharks are regulars in the sand patches between the vessels.