One of the biggest advantages of land-based diving, is that you travel to specific dive sites like Gordon's Rocks and other places where more animals are habitually seen. Also, these places aren't often visited during a regular tour of the islands.

 

Land-based diving begins at Puerto Ayora with one of a few dive operators. You usually leave early in the morning (around 7:00 ) and arrive to the morning dive site. After the morning dive, lunch is provided as well as a much needed rest. You'll go to the afternoon dive site, dive, and return to Puerto Ayora in the late afternoon.

While with most sites, you travel directly to the dive sites, dive, and return to Puerto Ayora, there are two of the sites that require overnight stays. Darwin and Wolf Islands, located far to the northwest, have no visitor sites, making them unaccessible for those touring by land. Because of the magnificent animal-life and depths, they are challenging dives meant for more accomplished divers.It is possible to see these islands with an overnight boat stay with a dive operator out of Puerto Ayora, or to charter them as part of a live-aboard diving tour

 

 

THE DIVE SITES FOR DAILY DIVING TOURS

ACADEMY BAY

 

Punta Estrada
Invertebrates, tropical fish, stingrays, green sea turtles, golden rays, whitetip reef sharks.

Caamano Islet
Friendly sealions, tropical fish, marine iguanas.

Punta Nunez Cliffs
Wall diving with a cave. Turtles, stingrays and tropical fish.

El Bajo Solmar
Fish, whitetip sharks, morays, invertebrates, caverns, eagle rays, stingrays, turtles and sea fans.

 

OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY BAY

Floreana
Sealions, exotic fish, tropical fish, barracudas, black coral, whitetip and Galapagos sharks, moray eels, hammerheads and eagle rays, dolphin watching on the boat ride.

Gordon Rocks
Turtles, tropical fishes, hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, blacktips and whitetips, large morays, spotted eagle rays, golden and stingrays, fur seals.

North Seymour
Hammerheads, loads of snappers and other fish, turtles, morays, manta rays and whitetip sharks.

Cousins Rock
Shoal and wall diving. Sealions, fish, whitetip sharks, hammerheads, eagle rays and manta rays.

Bartolome
Stingrays, turtles, whitetips, plenty of fish, invertebrates, penguins.

Mosquera Islet
Garden eels, mantas, whitetips sharks, hammerheads and eagle rays, tropical fish and sealions.

Guy Fawkes
Sea horses, Withetips sharks, sea lions, turtles, Galapagos Sharks.

Daphne Islet
Wall diving. Morays, whitetip, eagle rays, sting rays, sealions, cave diving, invertebrates, hammerheads, turtles, black corals.

Nameless Rock
Wall diving. Galapagos sharks, turtles, soft corals, large fishes, tropical fishes, morays and rays.

 

 

This is our list of the best land base diving tours in the Galapagos:

 

	Name	Islands	Duration	Price	Book it now
	Dive cruise Darwin & Wolf 16 dives (Waiting for Authorization)	Darwin, Wolf, Seymour, Bartolome, Cousins, Albany, Puerto Egas	8 days 7 nights	$ 3999	Book it now !!
	The best buy diving in Galapagos 12 dives and 2 Visits	Academy bay, Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne, Floreana, Santa Fe	8 days 7 nights	$ 1599	Book it now !!
	The best buy diving in Galapagos 6 dives and 2 Visits	Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne	5 days 4 nights	$ 999	Book it now !!
	Dive in Sailboat First Class 14 dives and 8 Visits	Gordon rocks, Mosquera, Seymour, Daphne, Santa Fe, Floreana, Cousins, Bartolome	8 days 7 nights	$ 3499	Book it now !!
	Daily Galapagos islands diving 2 dives	ISLANDS Gordon rocks, Seymour north, Mosquera, Daphne, Santa Fe, devil's crown, Champion, Enderby, Nameless, Cousins	1 day	$ 150	Book it now !!
		ISLANDS Gordon rocks, Seymour north, Mosquera, Daphne, Santa Fe, devil's crown, Champion, Enderby, Nameless, Cousins	1 Day	$ 200	Book it now !!

 

 

 

SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT