Tiburon Explorer Liveaboard

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.

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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.

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.