Theater of the Sea, established in 1946, is a marine mammal park located in the Village of Islamorada, Florida, United States. It is a tourist attraction located on Windley Key in the Florida Keys.
Visitors can swim with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, California sea lions, and sting rays and nurse sharks. Dolphins swim in and jump through a hoop and ring a bell.
Swim with dolphins in the Florida Keys! During Theater of the Sea’s Swim with the Dolphin program, you can touch and interact with a dolphin while swimming and snorkeling around the lagoon and while doing behaviors such as dorsal tows, hugs, and foot pushes.
The 17-acre (6.9 ha) site also has exotic birds, lizards, crocodilians, sea turtles, tropical, game fish, sharks, and other forms of marine life. Short cruises and bottomless boat rides are also conducted.
The park also engages in ecological conservation programs, including the first artificial flipper transplant on a sea turtle.