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In February 1794, the Caribbean islands saw their most legendary shipwreck. The fateful ship, Cordelia, was leading a convoy of merchant boats bound from Jamaica to Britain and floundered on one of the treacherous reefs along the coast. Setting off a warning cannon fire, the ship ignited a colossal crash involving nine ships, each of which misunderstood the call as a signal to band more closely together.
The area's local sailors valiantly rescued the approximately 400 sailors from the wreckage, and today, the Ten Sails Park pays homage to this catastrophic event. When you're on a locum tenens assignment in the Caribbean, you can learn the story firsthand and visit the park, where magnificent views of the reef can be seen.
According to legend, the courageous sailors and the rest of the island were given freedom from taxes by England to make up for the damage of the shipwrecks, although no evidence can prove that to be true.
When you visit you'll get to view a 1994 monument dedicated by Queen Elizabeth II situated at an ocean lookout station and a couple of wreckage artifacts from other collisions that have happened at the same spot.