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The
best buy diving with Lobo de Mar 12 dives |
Academy bay, Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne, Floreana, Santa Fe | 8
days 7 nights |
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The
best buy diving with Lobo de Mar 6 dives |
Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne | 5
days 4 nights |
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Dive
with Hotel Silberstein |
Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne, Santa Fe, Floreana, Bartolome, Cousin, Academy bay | as of 5 days/4 nights |
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Dive
with Eco Hotel Finch Bay |
Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne, Santa Fe, Floreana, Bartolome, Cousin, Academy bay | as of 5 days/4 nights |
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Daily
dives 2 dives |
ISLANDS Gordon rocks, Seymour north, Mosquera, Daphne, Santa Fe, devil's crown, Champion, Enderby, Nameless, Cousins |
1
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BAY Punta Estrada, La Loberia, El bajo, Punta Nuñez, Iguana Wreck |
1
Day |
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General Information
One
of the biggest advantages of land-based diving, is that you travel
to specific dive sites like Gordon's Rocks and other places where
more animals are habitually seen. Also, these places aren't often
visited during a regular tour of the islands.
Land-based diving begins at Puerto Ayora with one of a few dive operators. You
usually leave early in the morning (around 7:00 ) and arrive to the
morning dive site. After the morning dive, lunch is provided as well
as a much needed rest. You'll go to the afternoon dive site, dive,
and return to Puerto Ayora in the late afternoon.
In the price of the daily land based dives is included: two dives (except when mentioned differently),
dive boats, dive master/guide, full scuba gear (complete wet
suit, regulator with octopus, BC, mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, scuba tube, tanks and weightbelt with weights),
box lunch (except Academy Bay)
For details of what is included in the package programs, please refer to the programs.
The prices do not include transfers to/from airport, air tickets, the USD 100 National Park entrance fee, transport or hotel unless specified. A one off
administration fee of £ 20, USD 30, Euro 35 will be charged per booking.
All of the daily diving tours as well as package tours are tailor-made as safety comes first.
We therefore require information about the diving experiences of each
passenger in order to tailor a program that fits the skills and interests
of all.
While with most sites, you travel directly to the dive sites, dive, and
return to Puerto Ayora, there are two of the sites that require overnight
stays. Darwin and Wolf Islands,
located far to the northwest, have no visitor sites, making them unaccessible
for those touring by land. Because of the magnificent animal-life
and depths, they are challenging dives meant for more accomplished
divers.It is possible to see these islands
with an overnight boat stay
with a dive operator out of Puerto Ayora, or to charter them as
part of a live-aboard diving tour
THE DIVE SITES FOR DAILY DIVING TOURS
ACADEMY BAY
Punta
Estrada
Invertebrates, tropical fish, stingrays, green sea turtles, golden
rays, whitetip reef sharks.
Caamano
Islet
Friendly sealions, tropical fish, marine iguanas.
Punta
Nunez Cliffs
Wall diving with a cave. Turtles, stingrays and tropical fish.
El
Bajo Solmar
Fish, whitetip sharks, morays, invertebrates, caverns, eagle rays,
stingrays, turtles and sea fans.
OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY BAY
Floreana
Sealions, exotic fish, tropical fish, barracudas, black coral, whitetip
and Galapagos sharks, moray eels, hammerheads and eagle rays, dolphin
watching on the boat ride.
Gordon
Rocks
Turtles, tropical fishes, hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, blacktips
and whitetips, large morays, spotted eagle rays, golden and stingrays,
fur seals.
North
Seymour
Hammerheads, loads of snappers and other fish, turtles, morays,
manta rays and whitetip sharks.
Cousins
Rock
Shoal and wall diving. Sealions, fish, whitetip sharks, hammerheads,
eagle rays and manta rays.
Bartolome
Stingrays, turtles, whitetips, plenty of fish, invertebrates, penguins.
Mosquera
Islet
Garden eels, mantas, whitetips sharks, hammerheads and eagle rays,
tropical fish and sealions.
Guy
Fawkes
Sea horses, Withetips sharks, sea lions, turtles, Galapagos Sharks.
Daphne
Islet
Wall diving. Morays, whitetip, eagle rays, sting rays, sealions, cave
diving, invertebrates, hammerheads, turtles, black corals.
Nameless
Rock
Wall diving. Galapagos sharks, turtles, soft corals, large fishes,
tropical fishes, morays and rays.
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