Navidad Bank (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Navidad Bank is an area in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the Territory of Turks & Caicos. It is separated from Silver Bank by the wide Navidad Bank Passage. It is a shallow underwater area composed of coral and sand that almost reaches the ocean's surface, but is wholly submerged. It covers an area of 650 km . At low tide, a few small locations appear awash at the water's surface. General depths are less than 36.6 m. There is a least known depth of 12.8 m located on the east side of the north end of the bank. It is not suitable for boating navigation of any kind, except by small craft, whose operators must be extremely careful. From the earliest colonial times, the Navidad Bank has been the scene of various shipwrecks.