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Witness History: Grenada's underwater sculpture park

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Grenada's underwater sculpture park

01/03/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Grenada's underwater sculpture park

In 2004, Jason deCaires Taylor built the worlds first underwater gallery in Grenada

In 2004, Jason deCaires Taylor started building the first underwater gallery. He wanted to attract divers away from fragile coral reefs, so he submerged life-sized, human models.

In 2004 Jason deCaires Taylor started building the world's first underwater gallery.

He wanted to attract divers away from fragile coral reefs, so he submerged life-sized, human cement models in the Caribbean Sea.

Within a few days the art was covered in purple and blue sponges, orange fire coral and green algae... and was even home to a few octopuses.

Nineteen years later, Jason tells Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty about his memories of building the park. 

Archive Credit: Grenada Broadcasting Network.

(Photo: ‘Viscissitudes’ - A sculpture installed in Grenada. Credit: Jason deCaires Taylor)

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