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Diving at the Galapagos Islands
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The Galapagos archipelago, one of the "Seven Underwater Wonders of the World", is a diving destination well known of all impassioned and usually placed high on ones mental "immersions to do" list.

And at some point, time, finances, and personal commitments fall into place and the dreamer is off to live his dream.

Let us make your dream come true.

Welcome to the world's most spectacular natural aquarium.

We propose you :

•   English, French, German and Spanish spoken Divemaster guides with over 5.000 dives in     the Islands,
•   more than 44 outstanding world-class dive sites,
•   dive boats with modern equipment to get you to the dive sites safe, fast and in comfort,
•   first quality dive gear, including double layer wetsuits, and Scubapro first stage MK2, MK5,     MK10 and MK10 Plus; Scubapro second stage R190 and MK5, and Scubapro BC's,
•   flexibility and various options and services to give you the tailor-made diving vacations of     your dreams : daily dive tours for the number of days that you want, with or without hotel,     diving cruises including naturalist onshore visits of the islands, exclusive live aboard diving     cruises.

Diving Tours
Diving at the Galapagos requires at least a Padi Advanced Open Water level. Some immersions are requiring a good experience: You need to be used to dive in strong currents, sometimes you will have to start with the boat still in movement, because they can’t drop the ankle and with direct immersion to escape of the surface current

Each diver must :
• Have dive certification card and logbook, of any registered agency recognized worldwide (PADI, NAUI, SSI, ACUC, DIVA, CMAS, FEDAS, YMCA, DEWA ,...)
• Sign the document of liability release and own risk assumption.
• Be in a good health conditions, in order to develop recreational dive activities and not being under alcohol or drugs effects.


    Daily Dive Tours
Our day tours offer first class diving, food and accommodations at a lower price than the yachts or catamaran cruise ships.
Include: two dives, dive boat equipped with 2 oxygen tanks, Divemaster guides, dive gear (Complete wet suit, regulator with octopus, BC, mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, scuba tuba, tanks and weight belt with weights), box lunch, access to the hyperbaric chamber (our passengers are covered 80% specifically for dive accidents).

Click on the link in the frame on the right to get the detailed description of the diving sites include in this program.
    Price : 120 usd / day

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    One Week Daily Dive Tour
With Hotel "Estrella de Mar", with other hotels or without hotel.
This diving package include : accommodation in double room, breakfast and lunch (dinner option with a supplement), complete scuba gear, dive boat, divemaster guides, two dives at Academy Bay, two dives at Santa Fe Island, two dives at Floreana Island, two dives at North Seymour, two dives at Nameless, two dives at Gordon Rocks.

Click on the link in the frame on the right to get the detailed description of the diving sites include in this program.
    Price : from 480 usd to 1760 usd

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    Cruise Tours with Onshore Visits and Diving    5 or 8 days
Cruises with onshore visits accompanied by a naturalist guide of the Galapagos islands and combined with immersions accompanied by a divemaster to discover at the same time most fabulous diving sites of the Galapagos.
A perfect combination for divers who want to see the marvelous submarine world and at the same time lose nothing of the natural wealth in fauna, avifauna and plants of the Galapagos Islands.

Galápagos are an Ecuadorian Terrestrial Paradise. The most astonishing of Galapagos is the diversity, the richness and the differences which exist between each island. Discover the archipelago of Galápagos, island by island, its fauna, flora, geography and climate in our on line information letter "The Galapagos from Island to Island

We propose you 3 different classes of cruise ships all of them offering both an excellent diving service combined with the onshore naturalist visits included in their regular itinerary :
    • "De Luxe" Catamaran "Nemo",
    • "First class" Eco-catamaran "Archipel"
    •  "Tourist Superior" class motor sailboat "Encantada".

See our page with the summary table of the yachts, sailboats and catamarans offering the best ratio quality - price to check their detailed technical specifications, prices and itineraries and choose the ship that is the most appropriate for you.
Or click on the link in the frame on the right to access directly to the detailed technical file of the ships above-mentioned.

All the proposed ships have a diving platform, a well-trained crew, a diving guide and a fulltime naturalist guide.

On board they all have the equipment required for carrying out this type of operation to perfection: compressor, tanks, weighted belts and oxygen for emergencies.

The regular itinerary permits one immersion per day except on flight days, meaning that on a 5 days / 4 nights cruise you can have three, or maximum four immersions, and on an 8 days / 7 nights cruise there can be six immersions combined with the normal visits on land
    Price : form 750 usd to 1930 usd

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    Live Aboard Diving Cruises: Wolf and Darwin Islands    8 days
8 days de luxe live aboard diving cruises with immersions at the famous Wolf and Darwin islands.
Wolf and Darwin are the most north western islands of the Galapagos archipelago.
These islands are outside the tourist roads and moreover, they are forbidden of visits. Diving live aboard cruises (because scuba diving, yes, is authorized) are organized 2 or 3 times a year by some ships.
They are famous because they have the most exciting and desirable dive sites that a diver can dream. Strong currents are the ruling feature of these singular dive sites, where a diver can station himself at a rock to watch giant schools of every kind of fish drift past.
The sites are especially known for the high presence of hammerheads and big galápagos sharks as well as marine turtles, various types of rays, mantas, dolphins, moray eels, and invertebrates.

Here, you may live the unique experience of finding yourself with the greatest fish of all, the Whale Shark, between June to Octobe.
    Price : starting at 2200 usd

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Scuba Diving at the Galapagos Islands

Description of the
Diving Sites

Technical File
Nemo Catamaran

Technical File
Archipel Catamaran

Technical File
Encantada sailboat
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