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DiveTheGalapagos.com In 2009, I pioneered island hopping dive tours & founded an agency working only in Galapagos. Now, I'm re-launching my agency in 2021.

In 2019, I very successfully launched a new liveaboard in Galapagos, then COVID hit. Talk to me about diving Galapagos! Driven by passion for diving the Galapagos and providing stellar customer service. We know Galapagos and that means you get the best possible service and price. Why trust your dive travel to those who don't know Galapagos like we do? Trust us with your dive travel to Galapagos and we promise you will be glad you did.

10/06/2023

A groundbreaking expedition to the Galápagos led by legendary explorer Sylvia Earle and locally based marine biologist Alex Hearn could provide a blueprint for protecting the world ocean.

31/05/2023
My apologies for not posting this in a timely manner. I still love it though. Happy New Year!https://www.galapagos.org/n...
11/01/2023

My apologies for not posting this in a timely manner. I still love it though. Happy New Year!

https://www.galapagos.org/newsroom/famous-galapagos-giant-tortoise/?fbclid=IwAR1d_9T6S1dmauJCVd_821hpHZhFcUhz8QgcrDzpo1ipVneKPIUCGW83ogs

Date: December 22, 2022. By: Dr. James Gibbs, Vice President of Science and Conservation The holidays are a time when many of us go home and reunite with family. For Diego, an old male Española saddleback tortoise, Chelonoidis hoodensis, his homecoming took almost 100 years! Diego’s time away was...

17/09/2022
Happy World Manta Day! There really is no 'manta season' in Galapagos. That's marketing jargon to sell space during low ...
17/09/2022

Happy World Manta Day! There really is no 'manta season' in Galapagos. That's marketing jargon to sell space during low season. Mantas in Galapagos tend to be seen on the eastern coast of Isabela and at various other sites sporadically in Galapagos.

The Manabi coast of Ecuador is a different story. Each year between June & Sept is the largest migration of the largest Pacific Mantas (Manta birostris) in the world. And bonus, it coincides with the migration of thousands of humpback whales.

Beginning in 2023, we offer groups the opportunity to dive with Mantas as a pre or post cruise extension for Galapagos divers.

Get in touch if you're interested in diving with mantas on either side of your Galapagos trip. Come spend a few days where, as described by the Queen of Mantas herself, Andrea Marshall:

"I’ve studied Mantas all around the world and there are many places great for Mantas. I love… my own home is Mozambique, Africa is great. I’ve studied Mantas quite a lot in Australia and Indonesia, places like the Red Sea. But nothing compares to Ecuador.

When the Mantas hear you underwater, they can hear our bubbles, they come in from the deep water and they play with you, sometimes for a half an hour. It’s a really interesting experience to be in the water with such a large animal and have it want to connect with you. They’re not swimming away, they’re swimming to you. So that’s a really incredible experience, I think for anyone, but as a biologist, it’s really great."

https://divethegalapagos.com/tour/mantas-whales-ecuador-coast/

It's high season in Galapagos which means whale sharks are migrating through Darwin and Wolf. Please help scientists ide...
13/07/2022

It's high season in Galapagos which means whale sharks are migrating through Darwin and Wolf. Please help scientists identify the individuals by uploading your whale shark photos for identification in the global whale shark database.

Here's how to take photos to help with identification.

https://www.sharkbook.ai/photographing.jsp

Sharkbook is a visual database of shark encounters and of individually catalogued sharks. The library is maintained and used by marine biologists to collect and analyse shark encounter data to learn more about these amazing creatures.

12/07/2022

Our new website is live. Please visit!
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26/06/2022

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This is still one of my favorite turtle shots in Galapagos taken by
17/06/2022

This is still one of my favorite turtle shots in Galapagos taken by

08/06/2022

It's World Ocean's Day. Galapagos is so lucky. I'm on the Ecuadorian coast and can see the damage done when there is unregulated fishing and tourism activity. It's so sad. I hope you all clean a beach or dive with someone to get rid of all the nets and some of the plastic destroying this ecosystem...before it's too late!

This is why people dive the Galapagos. "My memories of being vertical and stationary in a school of hammerheads while th...
10/05/2022

This is why people dive the Galapagos.

"My memories of being vertical and stationary in a school of hammerheads while they just casually swam around me, like I'm some obstacle in their highway, will probably always be my favorite underwater memory."

https://galapagosscience.org/scientists-use-ultra-light-aircraft-to-tag-and-track-whale-sharks-off-the-southern-galapago...
24/04/2022

https://galapagosscience.org/scientists-use-ultra-light-aircraft-to-tag-and-track-whale-sharks-off-the-southern-galapagos-islands-for-the-first-time/?fbclid=IwAR2zYDfAcvuehtjTGtX1VITU_HJjPjSSpIi-HGp4G1NSECbGQt4VuH45to4

A multi-institutional team of scientists from the Galapagos Science Center (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Georgia Aquarium, MigraMar, the Galapagos Whale Shark Project and the Galapagos National Park Directorate recently concluded a groundbreaking research expedition to tag and track several....

Locals have long suspected the mantas on the eastern side of Isabela are a resident, rather than migratory, group. It wi...
12/04/2022

Locals have long suspected the mantas on the eastern side of Isabela are a resident, rather than migratory, group. It will be very interesting to finally find out!!

10/03/2022
Wow. The first chain hotel in Galapagos. https://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article119845.html
10/03/2022

Wow. The first chain hotel in Galapagos.

https://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article119845.html

Article - Hilton to Open Hotel on Galapagos Island in July - The 21-room boutique estate nestled among the world’s most distinctive island ecosystems is anticipated to convert to Hilton in July 2022.

10/03/2022

Today marks the anniversary of the 'official' discovery of the Galapagos Islands.

Some academics believe that it was the Incas who discovered Galapagos first over 500 years ago. They were led by Tupac Yupanqui, the Emperor of the Incas between 1471 and 1493. The Incan Empire was centred in modern-day Peru and was the largest empire in the Americas before the arrival of the Spanish. However, there are no written records or ruins as evidence to confirm the theory that the Incas arrived first.

Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer who visited the Islands in 1953, proposed that even before the Incas, people would travel to and from the islands, but there is still very little evidence for this.

In 1535, the Islands were officially discovered by Fray Tomás de Berlanga (the Bishop of Panama at the time). He was ordered to sail to Peru by Charles V to provide a report on activities there. He set sail from Panama on 23 February 1535. The strong ocean current carried him out to the Galapagos Islands.

When the winds died down he stumbled upon the islands by accident on March 10 1535. They decided to land in order to search for water but initially found none. They had to squeeze water from cactus pads to survive. They later found water on a second island.

The Islands were considered by Berlanga to be an ugly barren place. Where “God…had rained stones” and the land so infertile that it had not “even the power of raising a little grass.” But he did note the populations of different animals. There were large populations of seals, tortoises, iguanas and ‘many birds like those in Spain, but so silly that they do not know how to flee and many were caught in hand’.

In 1546 there was a second visit to the Galapagos Islands by Captain Diego de Rivadeneira who set sail after a defeat in the south of Peru. He was famous for naming the islands ‘Las Islas Encantadas’ which means ‘Enchanted or Bewitched Islands’. They were given this name because it was difficult to navigate around the islands due to strong currents and frequent patches of fog. Sailors thought the islands were bewitched and Rivadeneira thought the Galapagos Islands were just floating in the ocean.

In 1570 the Galapagos Islands were included in a world atlas by a Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. He named the islands ‘Insulae de los de Galapagos’. The shells of the giant tortoises reminded the visitors of horse saddles, and Galapagos comes from the Spanish word for saddle. The Galapagos name remained even after the islands were named ‘Achipelago del Ecuador’ when they were annexed in 1832.

15/01/2022
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28/12/2021

Good news!

https://galapagosscience.org/scalloped-hammerhead-shark-sphyrna-lewini-travels-more-than-1200-km-from-golfo-dulce-costa-...
16/12/2021

https://galapagosscience.org/scalloped-hammerhead-shark-sphyrna-lewini-travels-more-than-1200-km-from-golfo-dulce-costa-ricas-south-pacific-to-the-iconic-darwin-arch-in-the-galapagos-islands-ecuador/?fbclid=IwAR2UfwV-8WbH1PWx8lEShNIscewxZpEdRjbPgoz3lsJ0EXzz34bLTZPaboc

December 3, 2021- Like the jaguars that inhabit the tropical rainforests of different Central American countries, scalloped hammerhead sharks transit through large marine areas of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Such is the case of “Banco”, a male scalloped hammerhead shark tagged at ...

30/11/2021

President Lasso of Ecuador announced new measurements to protect the country from the new Omicron variant of COVID:

- To enter Ecuador, all people, nationals and foreigners, must present their complete vaccination certificate, with at least 14 days of validity, as well as a negative PCR (not the fast antigen) test within 72 hours of arriving into the country. All tests must be from a certified lab in your country of origin.

- Children and adolescents aged 2 to 16 years entering the country must present a negative result of a PCR test performed up to 72 hours prior to the flight to Ecuador.

- If you are a ‘suspicious case’ (symptomatic), a real-time PCR test will be carried out. If you are positive, a 14 day quarantine will be imposed.

- There is an entry ban for all travelers whose point of origin, stopover or transit are the following African countries: South Africa, Egypt, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Mozambique.

Sure. People think Galapagos and sharks. But we have lots of amazing critters, too. Like the Red Lipped Batfish.
26/11/2021

Sure. People think Galapagos and sharks. But we have lots of amazing critters, too. Like the Red Lipped Batfish.

Mangroves are vital to the well being of islands around the world. Galapagos is no exception. Snorkeling mangroves is us...
13/11/2021

Mangroves are vital to the well being of islands around the world. Galapagos is no exception. Snorkeling mangroves is usually pretty amazing due to the fact that they are nurseries. You can google articles about baby hammerheads in mangrove nurseries in Galapagos. I remember one bay in Isabela where there was always an abundance of baby black tip sharks, but you so rarely spotted an adult when diving.

Anyone interested in diving anywhere should understand how vital mangroves are to an ecosystem. And yes, there are several wooden walkways through mangrove forests in Galapagos...like the one pictured below.

https://www.simandan.com/mangrove-forest-facts/

Mangroves are tropical trees that thrive in conditions most plants can’t tolerate — salty, coastal waters and the flow of the tide.

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