Daily diving tours are available from Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island or Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, in San Cristóbal Island.
This is a good option for those who for time or money constraints cannot afford a full diving cruise and prefer to overnight in hotels in town, and combine daily tours with some diving, or for beginners with little experience in diving.
In both cases, dive sites and activities are selected by level or diver skills.
Programs normally include: 1 or 2 dives per day, dive boat, dive master guide, dive gear (Complete wet suit, regulator with octopus, BC, mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, scuba tuba, tanks, and weight belt), light breakfast and/or box lunch. Divers should bring their own dive gear and a good dive light with extra batteries.
In both cases, tours do not included: Airfare, Galapagos National Park Entrance Fee, insurance fee to use the hyper baric chamber, tips and personal expenses.

DIVE SITES FOR DAILY DIVING TOURS

AT ACADEMY BAY
Academy Bay is a short 2,5 mile navigation from Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island. This area is great for introductory diving, beginners and intermediate divers. The Academy Bay area is easier diving with very little current. The following are some of the Academy Bay diving sites – (Sites are selected according to the divers skills and the conditions of the day)

Punta Estrada
Sea turtle canyon in Academy Bay. Invertebrates, tropical fish, stingrays, green sea turtles with possible encounters with golden rays and some White tip reef sharks. There are many interesting geological formations

Caamaño Islet
Offers a chance to swim and play with friendly sea lions, many tropical fish and a few marine iguanas.

Punta Nuñez Cliffs
This wall diving with a cave. At this site you can see turtles, stingrays and tropical fish.

El Bajo Solmar
This submerged shoal at Academy Bay has an impressive amount of fish, white tip sharks, morays, invertebrates, caverns, eagle rays, stingrays, turtles and sea fans. A great diving site intermediate as well as experienced divers.

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OUTSIDE ACADEMY BAY
The dive sites outside Academy Bay have a navigation distance of between 20 and 38 miles. The approximate travel time is 1 hour to each sites. These areas are spectacular sites representing world class diving and are for intermediate to experienced divers.

Floreana
Enderby Islet, Punta Ayora, Champion Islet and Devil’s Crown are the dive sites where you will experience sea lions, exotic fish, thousands of tropical fish, barracudas, black coral, white tip and Galapagos sharks, moray eels, some hammerheads and eagle rays. You will have an excellent opportunity for dolphin watching during the boat trip to and from Floreana. You will also enjoy some sightseeing by boat of the local marine and bird life such as sea lions, blue footed boobies, frigate bird, penguins, marine iguanas etc.

Gordon Rocks
Here you will experience diving with turtles, big fish, hundreds of tropical fishes, hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, black tips and white tips, large morays, spotted eagle rays, golden and stingrays as well as fur seals. This is the best one day trip for experienced divers.

North Seymour
Schools of hammerheads, loads of snappers and other fish, turtles, morays, manta rays and white tip sharks.

Cousins Rock
An intermediate dive combination of shoal and wall diving with sealions, large amount of fish, whitetip sharks, hammerheads, eagle rays and manta rays. There is a breathtaking vertical wall with a profusion of black corals and other invertebrates. This dive site is always combined with diving in Bartolome

Bartolome
Stingrays, turtles, white tips, plenty of fish, invertebrates and interesting rock formation with crevices. This dive site is always combined with diving in Cousins Rock. During the surface interval between Cousins and Bartolome we snorkel to look for penguins

Mosquera Islet
Big schools of garden eels, mantas, white tips and maybe hammerheads and eagle rays as well as plenty of tropical fish and sea lions.

Guy Fawkes
Combination of wall and shoal diving. Great side for seeing a lot of sea horses and fishes. Withetips, sea lions, turtles, Galapagos Sharks.

Daphne Islet
Wall diving with morays, white tip, eagle rays, sting rays, sea lions, cave diving, invertebrates, hammerheads, turtles, black corals and hundred of fishes.

Nameless Rock
Wall diving with extremely strong surge and currents. Galapagos sharks, turtles, soft corals, large fishes, tropical fishes, morays and rays.

Santa Fe
Easy diving with little current. Similar to Academy Bay.

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