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Mexico is set to build the world’s largest underwater museum in the Caribbean sea near Cancun.

Around 400 concrete figures will be submerged in the sea for the Subaquatic Sculpture Museum to be located at the West Coast National Park in Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan Peninsula.

The underwater local ecosystem will benefit from the PH neutral concrete, which will allow algae and small invertebrates to flourish.

An added advantage will be that it may lure away 300,000 yearly tourists, from the area’s natural coral reefs.

"If they (tourists) swim near the corals, the divers with little experience might kick them with a fin or hit them with the oxygen tank," News.com.au quoted director of the West Coast National Park, Jaime Gonzalez as telling the Inter Press Service news agency.