Epave St. Gabriel

The St. Gabriel is a 72-metre inter-island cargo steamer scuttled in Fort-de-France Bay at 24 metres, one of the most accessible wreck dives in the French Caribbean. The vessel was sunk deliberately as an artificial reef and now sits upright on a sand and rubble bottom, its superstructure beginning at 12 metres and providing excellent swim-through opportunities at all skill levels. The hull is encrusted with orange cup corals, feather duster worms, and tunicates, and the holds shelter large schools of glassy sweepers and bigeye. Moray eels occupy almost every crevice in the engine room, and juvenile fish use the sheltered decking as a nursery. Night dives reveal sleeping parrotfish and free-swimming octopus.