All day trips leaves from Pto. Ayora, Santa Cruz Island. We normally depart around 8h30am and, depending on the navigation distance to each site, we arrive approximately at 4h30pm.

Full SCUBA gear (full 6 mm wetsuit, jacket type BCD with power inflators, regulator with octopus, pressure gauge and depth gauge, mask, snorkel, fins and booties) , 2 boat dives in small groups, Divemaster diving in the water with customers (max. Divemaster to diver ratio 1:6), transfers to/from Pto. Ayora and dive sites and drinking water. Our program outside the Academy Bay also includes box lunch.

Safety comes first and therefore we require the following information about each passenger dive experience in order to make the program that fits the customers skills and interests:

1. What type of divers license (level and training agency)
2. How many dives
3. Date of last dive
4. Experience with drift and wall diving
5. Experience with diving in cold water and with 6mm wet suit
6. What would the customer like to see in the Galápagos

With this information Galápagos Sub-Aqua can put together the program and the customer is off to experience one of the most fantastic dive adventures.

Academy Bay is a short 2,5 mile navigation from the dive center. This area is great for introductory diving, beginners and intermediate divers. We always request that each person spend a minimum of 1 day diving Academy Bay to get acclimated to our waters, wet suit and the visibility. We recommend that beginning certified divers do at least 2 days in Academy Bay before heading to the more distant spots.

The Academy Bay area is easier diving with very little current. The following are some of the Academy Bay diving sites - dive sites will not be specified when confirming an Academy Bay program since we select the sites according to the divers skills and the conditions of the day.

Sea turtle canyon in Academy Bay. Invertebrates, tropical fish, stingrays, green sea turtles with possible encounters with golden rays and some whitetip reef sharks. There are many interesting geological formations.

Offers a chance to swim and play with friendly sealions, many tropical fish and a few marine iguanas.

Wall diving with a cave. At this site you can see turtles, stingrays and tropical fish.

This submerged shoal at Academy Bay has an impressive amount of fish, whitetip sharks, morays, invertebrates, caverns, eagle rays, stingrays, turtles and seafans. A great diving site for intermediate as well as experienced divers.

The divesites outside Academy Bay have a navigation distance of between 20 and 38 miles. The approximate travel time is 1 hour to each site. Galápagos Sub-Aqua always has three crew members on board when diving outside of Academy Bay. These areas are spectacular sites representing worldclass diving and are for intermediate to experienced divers.

Enderby Islet, Punta Ayora, Champion Islet and Devil’s Crown are the dive sites where you will experience sealions, exotic fish, thousands of tropical fish, barracudas, black coral, whitetip and Galápagos sharks, moray eels, some hammerheads and eagle rays. You will have an excellent opportunity for dolphin-watching during the boattrip to and from Floreana. You will also enjoy some sightseeing by boat of the local marine- and birdlife, such as sealions, blue footed boobies, frigate bird, penguins, marine iguanas, etc.

Here you will experience diving with turtles, big fish, hundreds of tropical fishes, hammerheads, Galápagos sharks, blacktips and whitetips, large morays, spotted eagle rays, golden- and stingrays as well as fur seals. This is the best one daytrip for experienced divers.

Schools of hammerheads, loads of snappers and other fish, turtles, morays, manta rays and whitetip sharks.

An intermediate dive combination of shoal and wall diving with sealions, large amount of fish, whitetip sharks, hammerheads, eagle rays and manta rays. There is a breathtaking vertical wall with a profusion of black corals and other invertebrates. This dive site is always combined with diving in Bartolome.

Stingrays, turtles, whitetips, plenty of fish, invertebrates and interesting rockformation with crevices. This dive site is always combined with diving in Cousins Rock. During the surface interval between Cousins and Bartolome we snorkel to look for penguins

Big schools of garden eels, mantas, whitetips and maybe hammerheads and eagle rays as well as plenty of tropical fish and sealions.

Combination of wall and shoal diving. Great side for seeing a lot of sea horses and fishes. Whitetips, sea lions, turtles, Galápagos Sharks.

Wall diving with morays, whitetip, eagle rays, sting rays, sealions, cave diving, invertebrates, hammerheads, turtles, black corals and hundred of fishes.

Wall diving with extremely strong surge and currents. Galápagos sharks, turtles, soft corals, large fishes, tropical fishes, morays and rays.

Easy diving with little current. Similar to Academy Bay.