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Dive the Galapagos
For avid, open-water-certified divers, the Galapagos offers some of the most exhilarating diving in the world. Its unique mix of cold Humboldt currents and warm tropical waters support an exotic marine community teeming with great schools of fish and many species found nowhere else on earth.
North across the equator, Wolf and Darwin Islands offer some of the best diving in the world, famous for their thick schools of hammerhead sharks, slowly-cruising whale sharks, giant manta rays, bottlenose dolphins, and warm water fish species found nowhere else.
Cousins Islet offers intermediate dives along an outstanding vertical wall abounding with black coral, sponges, reef fish and invertebrates. Here we also can view huge manta and eagle rays, and occasional schools of white-tipped and hammerhead sharks.
In the remote western Galapagos, wall dives at Punta Vicente Roca showcase a vivid array of sponges and corals, and we swim in an out of a shallow, undersea cave to encounter the Port Jackson (or horned) bottom shark.
For advanced divers, Roca Redonda is favored by grouper, hammerhead sharks, amberjacks, triggerfish, whales, dolphins and reef fish in turbulent waters with rolling swells, and depths of 60-80 feet.
In the central isles, North Seymour reveals sea lions, reef fish, hammerheads, giant manta rays, white-tipped reef sharks, invertebrates, and occasionally whale sharks, humback whales and dolphins. Nearby Mosquera and Punta Carrion offer the rare possibility of diving among endemic fur seals, while intermediate dives at Daphne Minor feature white-tipped and hammerhead sharks, sea turtles, eagle rays, morays, black coral, tuna, reef fish, lobsters, sponges and a volcanic cave.
Note: With its challenging currents, swells and thermoclines, the Galapagos is strictly for skilled, experienced divers.
Because Galapagos wildlife are truly wild, their movement cannot be predicted and sightings cannot be guaranteed.
Big Five Tours & Expeditions is a premier luxury tour company offering individualized vacations and is renowned for customized, luxury soft adventure travel to more than 44 destinations worldwide. We can customize your travel package anywhere from 3 days to 22 days and more, whatever suits your needs.
On average, your 7 – 12 day Big Five land package vacation will cost between $5000 and $7000 USD per person based on two people sharing one room and staying in ‘moderate’ en-suite properties, including meals and entrances. The final rate for your individual vacation package will be determined by the number of days you travel, how you travel between overnight stops (flights, train, car, coach, overland truck etc,) the level of your accommodations (4 star, 5 star etc,) the number of participants on your tour and how many special activities such as scuba diving, white water rafting etc are included. International airfare is priced separately and can be added to your package if you wish.
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