Oro Verde (Wreck)

Originally a U.S. Army transport ship, the Oro Verde spent its last 10 years of life transporting bananas between Ecuador and Miami. It eventually ran aground in 1976 on the reef surrounding Grand Cayman, right off Seven Mile Beach.

Marine life at this site

Living in and around the wreck are nurse and reef sharks, possible eagle rays, turtles, and lots of fish: snapper, angelfish, grunts, anemones, and grouper.

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Mountainous Star Coral

Orbicella faveolata1 obs.

Rose Lace Coral

Stylaster roseus1 obs.

Musling

Barbatia domingensis1 obs.

Pederson Cleaner Shrimp

Ancylomenes pedersoni1 obs.

Lister's Keyhole Limpet

Diodora listeri1 obs.

Grooved Brain Coral

Diploria labyrinthiformis1 obs.

Thrush cowrie

Naria turdus1 obs.

Red Cushion Sea Star

Oreaster reticulatus1 obs.

Zebra Nerite

Puperita pupa1 obs.

Branching Tube Sponge

Aiolochroia crassa1 obs.

Cayenne Keyhole Limpet

Diodora cayenensis1 obs.

Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin

Diadema antillarum1 obs.

Giant Barrel Sponge

Xestospongia muta1 obs.

Yellowline Arrow Crab

Stenorhynchus seticornis1 obs.

Flamingo Tongue Snail

Cyphoma gibbosum1 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata8 obs.

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Svamp

Agelas repens3 obs.

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Svamp

Ectyoplasia ferox3 obs.

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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Caretta caretta3 obs.

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Svamp

Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 18643 obs.

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Svamp

Spirastrella hartmani3 obs.

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Svamp

Geodia neptuni2 obs.

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Koral & anemone

Mussa angulosa2 obs.

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Svamp

Cinachyrella kuekenthali2 obs.