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The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) is located 70-120 nautical miles offshore of Galveston in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Salt domes forced the seafloor upward, resulting in the formation of reefs and banks. The sanctuary was initially designated in 1992, expanded in 1996 and again in 2021 to include and now includes 17 banks and 160 square miles of protected waters. The main banks for diving are the East Bank, West Bank, and Stetson Bank.
The sanctuary contains alm…
The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) is located 70-120 nautical miles offshore of Galveston in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Salt domes forced the seafloor upward, resulting in the formation of reefs and banks. The sanctuary was initially designated in 1992, expanded in 1996 and again in 2021 to include and now includes 17 banks and 160 square miles of protected waters. The main banks for diving are the East Bank, West Bank, and Stetson Bank.
The sanctuary contains almost three hundred species of fish and over twenty species of coral, along with a wide variety of crustaceans, sponges, and plants. FGBNMS provides habitat for many protected and/or threatened species including marine mammals, sharks, rays, and sea turtles. Many fish species important to recreational and commercial fisheries inhabit the banks. The Golden Smooth Trunkfish is found only in the sanctuary and parts of Honduras.
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