The Grand Canyons (off Nantucket Island)

[Lerch]

"Seventy-five miles due south of Nantucket lies Atlantis, the nearest point of the fabled fishing grounds known collectively as the Canyons. Here the Atlantic plummets abruptly off the continental shelf from six hundred to six thousand feet, and fishermen can encounter more species of marine life than almost anywhere else on the planet. Hammerheads hunt in the tropical water. Schools of yellow fin tuna flee the attacks of blue marlin. Dolphin, mola mola, mahi mahi, manta ray, sperm whales and the largest fish in existence, the 41,000-pound whale shark, slip in and out of the depths. The Canyons are a magical underwater vortex, at once on Nantucket’s radar, and yet also completely off the charts." Read the full article - in this month's July issue - here.

http://www.n-magazine.com/the-grand-canyons/