Show the grand bank the grand bank is a great shoal in the atlantic ocean lying off the coast of newfoundland famous throughout the world as a fishing ground bank here means an undersea elevation which produces a shoal shelf or shallow the grand bank is about miles in length is less than feet below sea level and projects southeast from the newfoundland coast toward the center of the atlantic ocean geologists believe it to be the remnant of an anchet submerged mountain range the bottom in this region is covered with fine mud and sand and the meeting of two currents brings an endless supply of diatoms and algae which supply food for crustaceans and mollusks and other types of invertebrates supplying food for the hosts of codfish which swim in from the deeper waters |