AM-NE Baltra: Baltra NE. This morning you will have a check dive in NE Baltra where you will have ideal conditions to feel comfortable with the equipment and get ready for diving in Wolf and Darwin areas. You may see some white tip sharks, Galapagos sharks, hammer head sharks, school of reef fish, rays, eels, and barracudas.

PM-Bartholomew Island: From the distance you can see the famous Pinnacle Rock, one of the top iconic sites in the Galapagos Islands. While diving, you may see Galapagos sharks, white tip reef sharks, reef fish, barracudas, turtles, mobula rays, and sting rays. This is one of the few places in the Galapagos Islands where you can dive in a coral reef which makes such a colorful topography underwater!

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Diving will begin early to get in all 4 dives in a 12-hour day. An optional night dive is also available, where you can see garden eels and the red-lipped batfish.

AM-PM-Wolf Island: We will arrive at Wolf island, one of the reasons Galapagos is on most divers’ bucket list. Scientists have designated Wolf and Darwin (together as they are so close together) as the sharkiest place on earth because they have the largest biomass of sharks on the planet, 17.5 tons of sharks per hectare (2.47 acres). Only divers visit Wolf as there are no land visits.

Sightings include huge schools of hammerhead sharks, Galapagos sharks, whale

sharks (in season), silky sharks, eagle rays, sea lions, fur seals, mantas, turtles, jacks,

trumpetfish, butterfly fish, morish idols, moray eels and dolphins. Some sites at Wolf are

covered in coral and all of the tropical fish species that live on coral reefs. Dive sites include Shark Bay, The Landslide, La Banana and Islote La Ventana. On the island itself, there are hundreds of thousands of seabirds including all 3 types of boobies in Galapagos – red footed, blue footed and nazca. There are frigates, pelicans, lava gulls and red billed tropicbirds.

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AM-PM-Darwin Island: Darwin’s Arch is an icon, the symbol of diving the Galapagos. It is located 229 km / 142 miles north of the central islands. In addition to Wolf, this is where we find massive schools of hammerheads. Huge, pregnant whale sharks pass through Darwin Island each year for unknown reasons.

Darwin is the warmest dive site in Galapagos due to the tropical Panama current. You spend a lot of the dive stationary, on a platform that drops into the blue where hammerheads swim against the current. It is like being on the side of a hammerhead highway watching traffic pass. You leave the platform to swim out into the blue when a whale shark is spotted. That sometimes means swimming through the hammerheads, a truly magnificent experience you will carry with you forever.

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AM-Darwin island: We have 2 more dives at Darwin in the morning.

PM-Wolf Island: We have 1-2 more dives at Wolf in the afternoon. There is an optional night dive at the Anchorage site. Anchorage has a sandy bottom where you may see garden eels and the red-lipped batfish.

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We have special itineraries according to the months below:

June – December:

AM-Cape Douglas (Fernandina Island): Fernandina is an active volcano that has erupted twice in the last decade. It is the ‘hot spot’ in Galapagos.

This is the only site on liveaboard itineraries where you can see diving Marine Iguanas

feeding underwater. You also see Penguins feeding on tiny silver Sardines using schools of black striped salemas as cover. Turtles are especially abundant at Cape Douglas which is probably why this is a likely location to see Orcas.

PM-Punta Vicente Roca (Isabela Island): If you look at a map, Isabela Island looks uncannily like a seahorse. Punta Vicente Roca is located on the northwestern side of Isabela just below the seahorse's ‘mouth’. Isabela has 5 active volcanoes.

Punta Vicente Roca is a mola mola (Sunfish) cleaning station, it has large turtle populations, the endemic Galapagos bullhead shark, penguins, sea horses, sea lions and many species of fish not found elsewhere in Galapagos. It is not uncommon to find yourself diving with an endemic flightless cormorant.

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AM-Cousins Rock: We will have 1-2 dives depending on the divers' mood at Cousins, the remains of an eroded crater sticking up out of the sea. On the eastern side, the rock cascades down in a series of recessed ledges strewn with black coral, which is bright green under the water. Taking cover in the coral, you may find seahorses, frogfish, octopus, turtles and the elusive longnose hawkfish. It is not unusual to spot pelagic from Cousins including mantas, eagle rays, mobulas and hammerhead. Sea lions and fur seals are also at Cousins.

PM-Santa Cruz Highlands: We disembark at Santa Cruz Island to go to the Highlands to see the iconic Galapagos Tortoise in its natural habitat. After the Highlands, we descend into the largest town in Galapagos, Puerto Ayora. Our farewell dinner will be at a restaurant in Puerto Ayora.

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AM-San Cristobal: After breakfast you will disembark in San Cristobal island for your return flight to the continent.

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