For more than 50 years, Captain Hook’s Marina & Dive Center has been an integral part of the Keys fishing and diving community. Naturally we’ve become an essential source of information on the abundant and varied marine life and all the water sports that the Keys are rightly famous for. But Captain Hook’s is more than a marina. We aim to become a resource for all visitors to Marathon and the Keys. How? By making a wide variety of information collected from local and national experts available free for the asking as part of our Aquatic Learning Center.

You may already know about our fishpond and the marine life we exhibit here—we have a daily 4 p.m. feeding if you want to see nurse sharks, eels and other sea creatures up close! We are developing other informational and instructional materials now. Check back often to find new information, seminars, clinics and forums devoted to the huge variety of fish species that call these waters home; instruction on selecting the right equipment if you’re interested in fishing for a particular species; news on Keys environmental issues, reef conservation, ecology and local cleanup efforts. We’ll offer news for divers, instruction and reviews of equipment. And we’ll explore the growing popularity of underwater photography using digital cameras.