Tiburon Explorer Liveaboard
Duration
7 Nights
Location/Type
Galapagos/Liveaboard
Cabins
9 Cabins
Departure
Baltra
ABOUT THE LIVEABOARD
Built by divers, for divers, the Tiburon Explorer liveaboard offers everything to make your Galapagos liveaboard trip memorable. Catering to 16 guests, the liveaboard provides 9 comfortable staterooms on the lower and main decks. Each cabin is air-conditioned, with a private en-suite bathroom, queen or twin beds, and ample storage space. The main deck cabins have large windows providing stunning ocean views. Social areas include a modern main-deck salon with a TV & lounge area and a furnished dining room serving delicious chef-prepared cuisine. For further socializing and relaxation, guests can unwind on the top deck, enjoy the partially covered sun deck, or relax in the hot tub. The expansive dive deck has modern amenities, including individual gear bins, air and nitrox filling stations, and freshwater rinse tanks for kit and camera equipment.
The Tiburon Explorer liveaboard offers amazing dive trips in the Galapagos Islands. The 7-night/8-day trips explore the ‘Best-of-Galapagos’ sites of the Western Archipelago, including the world-famous Darwin & Wolf. This unique itinerary includes dives with endemic marine iguanas and larger pelagics, such as hammerhead sharks, manta rays, and whale sharks – season permitting, plus if divers are lucky, a chance to see the rare mola-mola. Two land tours are included to see giant land tortoises and endemic birds like the blue-footed boobie.
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Cabin Price Starts at
$ 674
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"I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea."
- Alain Gerbault
Itinerary
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7 Nights
Day 1, Saturday: Baltra
- Guests fly to the Galapagos Islands from Mainland Ecuador, arriving in the late morning. The dive guides will meet the guests at the airport between 11:00 am and 12 pm and escort them to the Galapagos liveaboard. Guests will board the vessel, have lunch, organize equipment and listen to the safety briefings.
Day 2, Sunday: Baltra North (2 Dives)
- Equipment check
- 7:00 and 10:00 dives
- Sightings include rays and schools of fish. Afternoon North Seymour land visit. Walk the path around North Seymour Island to see the large colonies of Blue Footed Boobies and Frigate Birds. Sighting of Sea Lions and Marine Iguanas is also common. Depart for Wolf Island (long transit)
- Depart for Wolf Island (long transit)
Day 3, Monday: Wolf Island (3-4 Dives)
- 10:30. 2:00 and 4:30 dives. Possible dusk dive.
- Sightings often include hammerheads, whale sharks (in season), eagle rays, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, and silky sharks
Day 4, Tuesday: Darwin Island (4 Dives)
- 6:30, 10:30, 2:00, and 4:30 dives
- Sightings often include hammerheads, whale sharks (in season) eagle rays, Galapagos sharks, and silky sharks. Transit to Wolf Island
Day 5, Wednesday: Wolf Island (3-4 Dives)
- 6:30, 10:30, 2:00, and 4:30 dives
- Sightings often include hammerheads, whale sharks (in season), eagle rays, Galapagos sharks, and silky sharks. Transit to Cabo Douglas (12 hours)
Day 6, Thursday: Cabo Douglas (1-2 Dives)
- Sightings include marine iguanas.
- Transit to Punta Vicente Roca
- Punta Vicente Roca (1-2 Dives)
- Sightings often include mola, turtles, and macro life
- Transit to Cousins Rock (10 hours)
Day 7, Friday: Cousins Rock (2 Dives)
- 6:30 and 9:30 dives
- This is a great macro diving with an excellent chance of seeing sea horses, sea lions, and eagle rays.
- Lunch will be served while transiting to Santa Cruz (3 hours). Travel by bus to the Santa Cruz Highlands to visit the giant tortoises in their natural habitat.
- Transfer to the town of Puerto Ayora. Dinner on your own in Puerto Ayora.
- Return to the boat at 8:30 pm.
Day 8, Saturday: Baltra
- Depart the vessel by 9 am. Transfer to the airport.
- Your Galapagos Liveaboard diving adventures 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 are very common, and seeing a whale shark is very possible from June through November. All the islands you travel to are amazing sites for underwater photography.
- Macro photographers will have their fill of seahorses, barnacle blennies, coral hawkfish, and many others. An abundance of rays is 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 this water is unlike any other place, with thick schools of the native brown, stripped Salema, snappers, groupers, Chevron barracuda, and huge sea turtles.
- The weather in the Galapagos has water temperatures ranging from 65 -75 degrees F from December through May and 60 – 70 (F) from June through November. Water temperatures are at the higher end of the scale in both Darwin and Wolf. Air temperatures range from 75 (F) or higher in the rainy season (December-May) to the mid-’60s (F) during the dry season (June – November), with nearly constant sea breezes.
- Meals and snacks
- Water, tea and coffee
- Tanks and weights
- Towels and toiletries
- Transfers
- Fuel tax
- To be paid in advance or onboard
- Diving and travel insurance
- National park fee - US$200 per person
- Transit control card - US$20 per person
- Fuel surcharge - US$150 per person
- Chamber fee - US$35
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Cabins
Price depends on itinerary – email info@apexoceantravel.com
The Main Deck features six guest staterooms, 1-6, each with a private bath and shower, air-conditioning, ample storage, and large windows providing guests with amazing ocean views. Cabins 1 and 2 (Front) have queen beds only. Cabins 3-6 have queen or twin beds. The dining area, lounge/entertainment area, bar, and large dive deck are also located on the Main Deck.
Price depends on itinerary – email info@apexoceantravel.com
The Lower Deck comprises 3 suites, 7-9, each with private bath and shower, queen or twin beds, air-conditioning, port windows and ample storage. The 9th Cabin is only available for people who purchased a guaranteed single occupancy supplement.
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