The Cable

★★★★☆ (78)

The Cable is one of Key West’s most exciting outer reef dive sites. In the 1850’s it was the telegraph cable that started near the Southernmost Point buoy and stretched all the way to Havana Cuba. In the mid 1980’s it was disassembled by ATT.

The Cable hosts a vast variety of Caribbean tropical fish. There are very large beautiful sponges of all types some reaching enormous sizes. Nurse sharks, Caribbean reef sharks...

Dive Activity

Potential Wildlife Sightings

Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content

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Total number of species approx.: 200

Moray Eel

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Total number of species approx.: 27

Barracuda

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Loggerhead Turtle

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Ocean Sunfish

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Total number of species approx.: 12

Lionfish

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Total number of species approx.: 100

Parrotfish

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Whitetip Reef Shark

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Total number of species approx.: 2

Nurse Shark

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Total number of species approx.: 80

Stingrays

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Total number of species approx.: 250

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Total number of species approx.: 90

Angelfish

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Total number of species approx.: 130

Butterfly Fish

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Total number of species approx.: 85

Surgeonfish

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Total number of species approx.: 150

Sweetlips and Grunts

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Total number of species approx.: 350

Damselfish

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Total number of species approx.: 90

Goatfish

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Total number of species approx.: 55

Lobster

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