Your underwater adventures in the Galapagos with Motor City Scuba will encompass everything from sharks to nudibranchs, and more. The islands are best known for amazing shark diving around Wolf and Darwin Islands. These small and remote islands are best reached by liveaboard vessels for divers. Your diving experience here will generally include Galapagos sharks, silky sharks and lots of schooling hammerheads being cleaned by king angelfish. Seeing marine turtles, schools of tuna, eagle rays, and sea lions is very common and seeing a whale shark is very possible from June through November.

There is an abundance of rays are at many of the dive sites (including spotted rays, marble rays, golden rays and stingrays) along with sea lions, sea turtles, schools of grunts and snappers. The variety of life in these water is unlike any other place, with thick schools of the native brown striped salema, snappers, groupers, Chevron barracuda and huge sea turtles.

Galapagos is one of the most exciting destinations in the world!

Galapagos Itinerary

Our Galapagos Islands trip offers a new itinerary in compliance with the Galapagos National Park regulations which requires companies with permits to follow the exact itinerary below.

• Charter runs Thursday to Thursday.
• Charter includes: 4 dives a day, 2 morning and 2 afternoon. In addition, 2 night dives and 2 land excursions per week are offered.
• June - November average water temperature: 60-75F, 16-24C (Cooler water and Whale Shark sightings are greater.)
• December - May average water temperature: 70-86F, 21-30C (Warmer, clearer water, larger schools of Hammerheads, Manta Rays & Eagle Rays.)
• 5 - 7mm wetsuit recommended. See Captain's Logs to get exact water temperatures.
• All dives are made from two 8 ft x 20 ft dive tenders.

The following dive schedule provided is based on tides, currents, and weather conditions.

Thursday: Baltra Airport, Afternoon Greeting by Staff, Bus Transfer to the Itabaca Channel Canal and Boarding. Welcome, and Orientation Dive at Punta Carrion at Itabaca Channel.

Friday: 2 Morning dives; Punta Carrion (Santa Cruz Island) or Bartolome Punta. 1 afternoon hike to Bartolome Summit and panga ride at Pinacle Rock.

Saturday: January to May: 2 morning dives at Darwin and 2 afternoon dives at Wolf.  June to December: 2 morning dives and 2 afternoon dives at Darwin.

Sunday: January to May: 4 Dives at Wolf; 2 morning, 2 afternoon dives. June to December: 2 morning dives, 1 afternoon and 1 night dive.

Monday: January to May: 4 dives at Cabo Marshall; 2 morning dives, 1 afternoon and 1 night dive. June to December: 2 morning dives at Darwin; and 2 afternoon dives at Wolf.

Tuesday: 2 morning dives at Cabo Douglas and 2 afternoon dives at Punta Vicente Roca.

Wednesday: 1 morning dive at Cousins Rock. Wednesday afternoon arrive at Itabaca Channel or Puerto Ayora. After lunch guests will disembark at 1 pm to go ashore for a private bus tour to see the beautiful Highlands of Santa Cruz Island. This will include a scenic view over Santa Cruz and a Tortoise Reserve to see giant tortoises.

After the hike, guests can walk through town, shop and visit the tortoise-breeding center Fausto Llerena at the Charles Darwin Research Station. Guests will have dinner ashore at a local restaurant of their choice (only meal not included in the cruise).
The Galapagos Aggressor® will depart at 10 pm from Puerto Ayora town to Baltra.

Thursday: Guests will have a full breakfast then check out and depart to the Baltra Airport.

*Sample itineraries and maps are for illustrative purposes only. The exact route and sites visited are subject to change based on local regulations, guest experience, weather and logistics, and is at the Captain’s discretion.

Accomodations

The Galapagos Aggressor III is 100 feet long, built and powered for comfort, safety and stability. She is diesel powered, cruise at an average speed of 10 knots and have 110 and 220 volt power onboard. Comfortable accommodations include four deluxe staterooms which have two twin beds and three portholes and four master staterooms with a queen bed (which can be modified to 2 twin beds) and a large window. Each stateroom has a private toilet, shower, hair dryer, TV/media center, temperature controls and safe storage box.

The Galapagos Aggressor III sleeps 16 guests in privacy and comfort. She has a beautiful spacious salon, large covered cocktail desk, chaise lounges and deck chairs, bar, grill, and hot tub.

There is a variety of nightly entertainment, including diving, fish identification presentations, movies, games and more. If you have a favorite movie or digital presentation we encourage you to bring it along. The staff especially loves new releases of movies, recent magazines and books. A small library of books for exchange is maintained onboard as well as fish identification books for reference.

All meals, snacks and beverages are provided and included in price.

The spacious dive deck allows for organized and efficient pre- and post-dive activities.

Not Included:

• Galapagos National Park Fee ($100)
• Tourist card ($20)
• Airfare to Quito and Galapagos Islands
• Overnight at Quito before transfer
• Crew gratuity