Green sea turtle

Photo: Don Loarie · CC BY

Green turtles are the primary large grazer of seagrass beds in tropical waters and play a critical role in seagrass health by cropping blades and stimulating regrowth. Carlisle Bay's wreck park functions as a cleaning station hub: fish cleaner wrasses and cleaner shrimp set up stations on the wreck structures and turtles queue to have parasites removed from their skin, shells, and eye areas. The bay population is habituated to divers and encounters are virtually guaranteed.