Diving in Floreana Galapagos Islands:
Location: South of Santa Cruz Island, 3
possible dive sites, 90 minutes away from our base.
Site
Conditions: Divers should be alert for changeable currents. Some sites
are reef dives where corals and sponges can be found and others are wall
dives.
Activity: Most of the interesting activity
takes place in the shallows where the current strikes the reefs. Cleaning
station, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, green turtles, reef
fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, barracudas, variety of invertebrates.
Diving in Gordon Rocks Galapagos:
(minimum
experience to participate: 30 logged dives or the previous evaluation of our
dive guides at another site)
Location: Gordon Rocks is one of the
best dive sites in the central islands. It is an eroded crater at the top of a
tuff cone. Near the east coast of Santa Cruz Island, 2 dive sites located 45
minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz Island).
Site
Conditions: This
rock formation is a world renowned site, for intermediate and advanced divers
due to the strong currents and surge.
Diving in North Seymour Galapagos:
Location: North of Santa Cruz Island, 2
dive sites located 30 minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz
Island).
Site
Conditions: For
all levels of divers, although sometimes there can be strong currents. Platform
reefs with a diversity of species.
Activity: Cleaning station, sea lions,
and many kinds of sharks including Galapagos, white tip reef and hammerhead,
mobula rays (small mantas), turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays,
Galapagos eel, barracudas, variety of invertebrates.
Location: North of Santa Cruz Island between
Seymour Island and Baltra Island, this low rocky islet holds sandy beaches
where sea lions rest. The one dive site is located 25 minutes from Itabaca
Channel (North side of Santa Cruz island).
Site
Conditions: Normally
there are no strong currents at this site, a sandy bottom between 15 and 18
metres with garden eels and pelagic species, There is also a wall that starts
at 18 metres where we find black coral and variety of invertebrates.
Activity: Hammerhead sharks, black tip
reef shark, white tip reef shark, sea lions, turtles, barracudas, reef. fishes,
sting rays, eagle rays, mobula rays, Galápagos eel, variety of invertebrates.
Location: Off the south coast of
Santiago island. Beagle Rocks are three large, steep rocks, the only remains of
a tuff cone. About 90 minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz
Island).
Site
Conditions: Normally
there are no strong currents at this site. It is a reef dive with many corals
and sponges.
Activity: Cleaning station, sea lions,
Galapagos sharks, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, barracudas, variety
of invertebrates, manta rays and probably solitary hammerhead sharks.
Diving in Daphne Minor Galapagos:
Location: Near the north coast of Santa
Cruz Island, a big flat-topped exposed rock. It is an eroded tuff cone.
Located 30 minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz Island).
Site
Conditions: Moderate
currents at this site, a drift dive along the impressive drop-off at the top of
a sloping wall, rocky and sandy bottom.
Activity: Here we find a small cave
(this is NOT a cave dive) where white tip reef sharks rest, additionally there
is a pinnacle where we find a diversity of rays, Galápagos shark, turtles, reef
fishes, barracudas, black coral walls and variety of invertebrates.
Diving in Bartholomew Galapagos The Platform:
Location: Located at the east side of
Santiago Island, a small island where we see the famous pinnacle rock of
Bartolomé, located within 90 minutes from the Itabaca Channel (north side of
the island Santa Cruz).
Site
Conditions: moderate
current, is a platform at about 10 meters (33ft) deep with enough variety of
reef fishes. We also find the edge of this platform a submarine canyon from 15
meters (50ft) deep with chance encounters pelagic species.
Activity: white tip shark fin, reef
fish, barracuda, turtles, modula rays, stingrays and a variety of invertebrates
and mollusks.
Diving in Cousins Galapagos:
Location: Located on the east coast of Santiago Island near the island of Bartolome, within 90 minutes from the Itabaca Channel (north side of Santa Cruz). It is a triangular-shaped islet.
Diving in Cousins Galapagos:
Location: Located on the east coast of Santiago Island near the island of Bartolome, within 90 minutes from the Itabaca Channel (north side of Santa Cruz). It is a triangular-shaped islet.
Site
Conditions: Under
normal conditions no strong currents, diving is on a shelving reef, with many
endemic black corals on the walls.
Activity: Cleaning station, pacific seahorses,
barracudas, sea lions, Galapagos shark, white tip shark, sea turtles, reef
fish, stingrays, spotted eagle rays, and a variety of invertebrates and
mollusks.
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