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Captain Marvin’s
a Cayman Legend
Captain Marvin’s – a Cayman legend
Capt. Marvin Ebanks, the granddaddy and founder of snorkel trips to the Stingray City sandbar, started his boat tour business back in 1951, and his tours have been delighting visitors to the island ever since.
to enjoy their snacks. Visitors nowadays enjoy getting up close and personal with the stingrays, as they are able to snorkel and scuba alongside them.
Capt. Marvin’s is now operated by
a second generation of ownership and the legacy continues: providing the experience of a lifetime for their guests, with consistently excellent service,
and first-class boats, fishing gear and snorkeling equipment and of course, their amazing crew.
and your one stop
shop for all of Cayman’s
attractions!
Call: 345 945-6975 or 345 945-7306 info@captainmarvins.com | www.captainmarvins.com
The story of how Stingray City and the sandbar were ‘discovered’ is legendary.
As a boy fishing with his father, Capt. Marvin remembered fishermen stopping in the shallow waters of the crystal clear North Sound to clean their catch. At that time stingrays would congregate and eat the fish scraps that were being thrown into the water.
Years later Capt. Marvin realised tourists might like to see this amazing phenomenon of gathering stingrays from
Cayman Turtle Centre
Fishing charters
Bioluminescence tour
a boat, and so Captain Marvin’s began. Capt. Marvin then began offering
snorkel trips for visitors, so they could enjoy the warm, beautiful waters and
get closer to nature, as well as view the majestic stingrays from the boat. The crew would provide a delicious lunch for their guests using freshly caught seafood and visitors thought they were in paradise.
Today the area is world-famous and several generations of stingrays later, they are still living in the wild, congregating
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