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Diving Galapagos (Ecuador)The Galapagos islands are located 970 km west of Ecuador, in the Pacific Ocean. The water is cold: you will need a 5-7 mm wetsuit with hood and gloves, or a drysuit. The best time to see whale sharks is from May to November, especially in the northern islands. Hammerheads may be seen all year round. Galapagos Diving • Galapagos Dive Operators • Reading and Watching • Your Comments See Issue 90 of SCUBA News for an article on diving and travel in Ecuador and the Galapagos. The Diving
"The most amazing sea life encountered with whale sharks, huge schools of hammerheads, galapagos sharks, silk sharks, turtles etc."
"Visibility over 24 m (80 ft). Moderate currents. Hammerheads, Galapagos blacktip, pod of dolphins, eagle rays and creoles. Several curious sharks came with in a meter of my camera. Prolific fish population. The week before six whale sharks were seen at this site."
"Isolated island in Pacific, rocky wall. Hundreds hammerheads plus whale shark, many eagle rays, golden cowray, mobula, galapogos shark, oceanic whitetip, silky shark etc etc." "Truely amazing, dropping down to 24 metres through a school over some 500-600 hammerheads tonns of Galapagos Sharks, and on our ascent, more than 1000 dolphins, that found us just as interesting as we found them..... the Dive of an hour turned into another 2 hours of snorkelling."
"I call this dive the amphitheater. Visibility over 80 ft (25 m). Fantastic dive. Strong currents. 4-6ft swells with consistent surge. We dropped to rocks and held on tight to watch the show. Hundreds of hammerheads, black tip, white tip, silky and Galapagos sharks. Large schools of eagle rays “floating” in the currents. Huge morays were abundant through out the rocky structure. Saw 5 green turtles. "
"A huge rock, depth aprox. 30m. plenty with rays, turtles and always huge schools with hammerhead sharks."
"Visibility over 15 meters. Very little current, sea life included: 2 green turtles, 2 white tipped sharks, one Marble Ray, a bull sea lion and a Mola Mola (sunfish). The topography was a rocky ledge. "
"Visibility 60-80 ft. Moderate currents. Saw several dolphins and more sharks." Galapagos Dive Operators
E-mail: galapagos@aggressor.com "A first class operation and one of two operators who have permits for land and dive excursions" Reading and WatchingBuy from UK... (see below for USA)
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