So last November, I was in Grenada for a few days. I ended up doing a city tour of the capital

St. George's, and I went to see a waterfall. But there was one more tour my guide suggested for me.

He told me right off the coast of St. George's, there was an underwater sculpture park. He said

it was like nothing I'd ever see. Life-sized

sculptures drilled into the sea floor. He told me about one in particular that was made to

honor those lost in the transatlantic slave trade. It's a group of children in a circle,

seemingly chained together by their wrists. Right there in the back seat, I googled the sculpture,

and it's called vicissitudes.

Unfortunately, I can't swim, so I wasn't able to go and visit the sculpture park,

but when I got back, I did find the name of the guy responsible for creating the sculptures.

And it turns out, the tour guide story on vicissitudes wasn't true.

But there is a larger mission to these sculptures at the bottom of the ocean.

My name is Baudelaire, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we go to St. George's Grenada and talk to the artist behind these mysterious sculptures under the ocean, Jason DeCaris Taylor.

We learn about how he's trying to change the way we view our oceans through his art, and we hear the truth behind one of his most iconic

sculptures, vicissitudes.

Can you describe what I would have seen had I been able to go?

Sure.

So the project in Grenada was my first sort of foray into the underwater world.

This is Jason DeCarrie's Taylor, a British sculptor, environmentalist, and creator of underwater sculpture parks all over the world. His first sculpture park though was the one I heard about in Grenada.

It was a sculpture park that I created in 2006.

It's a very interesting site because it's very well protected.

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