Moliniere Bay - Diving at the Underwater Sculpture Park (Grenada)

After the two dives at Boss Reef this morning, our dive trip with the AIDA would have ended. But since we originally thought when booking the trip that we would go diving this morning at the famous underwater sculpture park of Jason de Caires Taylor, the AIDA crew had a great suggestion for both of us: in the afternoon we should make a trip with snorkelers and taster divers to the underwater sculpture park and they asked us if we just want to come along again. We didn’t have to think long. Sure, let’s 🙂

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The location of the sculpture park

The sculpture park is located in a protected marine park in Moliniere Bay, about three kilometers north of St. George’s. The English artist and diving instructor Jason de Caires Taylor created the world’s first underwater sculpture park on an area of more than 800 m2 in 2007. Other projects in many other countries of the world (Mexico, Bahamas, etc.) followed.

The Underwater Sculpture Park by Jason de Caires Taylor

The dive at the underwater sculpture park was originally also once in the excursion program of the AIDA, but was later taken out again, because some divers complained that one only goes to dive at the dive site to a maximum of 8.5 meters and that would not be a real dive. We have a slightly different approach: what we see is important to us. And we don’t care if it’s at a depth of 4 meters or at a depth of 25 meters. We can also dive an hour to 4 meters, if there are nice things to see there.

On to the next excursion

Diving with the AIDA on Grenada

Diving in Grenada

Thanks to the AIDAdiva team

All 80 figures represent people of Caribbean origin who serve as artificial reefs for the underwater world. The statues are surrounded by plants and inhabited by marine life. Arriving at the dive site, we jumped into the water with our diving instructor Annika and explored the underwater world at the sculpture park. But before we reached the actual figures, we first encountered a moray eels, a firefish, two perfectly camouflaged stone fish and a large swarm of fish.

Coral formation

The perfect camouflage of the stone fish

Larger schools of fish

A stone fish

And then, step by step, the first figures appeared: stone slabs with faces, a table with a wine bottle and a fruit basket, a praying figure and a lying mermaid. And then we came to the great circle of people, whose fascination can hardly be escaped. The figures look somehow mystical with their bodies covered with corals, sponges and sea urchins, as if they want to capture one with their eyes. We could really have spent hours here if the air wasn’t all! A total of 6 other guests from the AIDA made this dive as a taster dive, which in our view due to the low depth and the non-existent current is really ideal to dive properly for the first time 🙂

Stone slabs with faces

A praying figure

The human circle under water

Diving at the Underwater Sculpture Park

The Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada

The faces of the sculptures

Lying figure

Mermaid

Diving at the Underwater Sculpture Park

The other guests of the excursion could see the sculptures while snorkelling. After another snorkeling stop in a nearby bay, all snorkelers and taster divers were provided by the local guides with enough rumpunsch and then we started the return trip to the ship, where we arrived again around 4 pm.

Our video of the underwater sculpture park in Grenada

Here is the video of our dive.

Übersicht unserer AIDA-Reiseberichte in der Karibik

Liest man die Liste der Inseln, die die AIDA auf der Route Karibische Inseln 1 ansteuert, denkt man kurzzeitig, es wäre ein Traum: Dominikanische Republik, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Grenada, St. Vincent & die Grenadinen, Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua. Elf Inseln in 14 Tagen anzusteuern ist schon eine Hausnummer. Aber das war auch der Grund für uns, diese Route zu wählen. Eine Kreuzfahrt ist wie prädestiniert dafür, die Karibik mit ihren mehreren tausenden Trauminseln auf eine entspannte Art und Weise kennenzulernen. Hier findet Ihr alle Reiseberichte unserer 14-tägigen Karibikkreuzfahrt mit AIDAdiva.