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Scuba Forum / General / November 2003scuba diving operator check
Hi, I plan on scuba diving in the Galapagos. I have found an operator on the web that sounds very interesting: http://www.galapagos-sub-aqua.com/ Has anybody from this newsgroup dealt with these people? Any good or bad experiences? I would appreciate any comments. Thanks, Guenther --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Guenther Eichhorn | gei@cfa.harvard.edu http://ads.harvard.edu Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 1815 Mass. Ave., MS-31, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thanks, > Guenther Yes, I have dived with or looked at them all. (land based as well as most liveaboards). I would say that they are in the top 3, but they are a long way under the first place operation- Scuba Iguana. See our trip report at http://www.geocities.com/johnofrancis/galapagos.htm Scuba Iguana is in the perfect location, just on the edge of the Darwin Research Station, about 5 mins walk from SubAqua. The whole town can be traversed in 12 minutes, end to end. You can snorkel or SCUBA right off the shore and hunt for Marine Iguanas, something unavailable at any other shop. Scuba Iguana shares the property with Hotel Galapagos, which, for my money is the place to go. Lovely private cottages with ocean frontage. The Hotel offers a breakfast package (advised) and your dive fees include a "box" lunch prepared by the Hotel. For dinners, we ate there once or twice, but mostly walked into town and ate at some of the hotels that SubAqua offers as accomodations. I'm at the point that I take quality of experience over quantity of liveaboartd dives. I don't need swirling schools of Hammerheads on every dive, seeing them a couple of times is just fine. I prefer to dance with the seals in Academy Bay, be ground shuttled to meet the boat at Gordon Rocks or Baltra, then spend the evenings in Puerto Ayora at a nice restaurant. Read the website I referenced above. See why diving with the legendary Mathias Espinosa is worth the trip. (PS- next time I wont bother bringing my Halcyon wings and gear- his rentals will do just fine!) Doc, C.I.D. in article 2Uyqb.207801$0v4.16417259@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, Robert "Doc" Adelman, C.I.D. at lawyers-guns-money@att.net wrote on 6/11/03 4:17 pm: >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > mostly walked into town and ate at some of the hotels that SubAqua offers as > accomodations. I also have dove with Scuba Iguana, Using its small 17 ft punt we made one dive near a breakwall at the edge of town. Just feet from shore we ran into two cruising Galapagos Sharks who had come into feed on the baby sea lions making their first forays into the sea. The sharks were heart stopping BIG. Second dive, way out in the bay was just as interesting and the sharks were thankfully a little bit smaller. Good gear, inexpensive. Their boat was not seaworthy, however, to be fair we were in it only because his regular day use dive boat was out by the time I checked in. What's so great about scuba diving, anyway? What's all the fuss about? I might be an over-sheltered New Yorker. But it just doesn't look like too much fun. All that equipment, chance of drowning, you get all wet and stuff. I dunno, I just, dunno. But everywhere you look on these travel newsgroups it's "Scuba Scuba Scuba". "When in Caribbean, be sure to scuba." "Gotta go Scuba". > > Hi, > > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > Doc, C.I.D. > What's so great about scuba diving, anyway? What's all the fuss about? > I might be an over-sheltered New Yorker. But it just doesn't look like > too much fun. All that equipment, chance of drowning, you get all wet > and stuff. I dunno, I just, dunno. But everywhere you look on these > travel newsgroups it's "Scuba Scuba Scuba". "When in Caribbean, be > sure to scuba." "Gotta go Scuba". This from a self-professed over-sheltered New Yorker. Figures.  Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur > > What's so great about scuba diving, anyway? What's all the fuss about? > > I might be an over-sheltered New Yorker. But it just doesn't look like [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > This from a self-professed over-sheltered New Yorker. Figures. It's like a Grateful Dead concert; you can talk about it and play the tapes as much as you want, but folks just won't get it until they experience it for themselves. I used to didn't get it, now I need a miracle every day. Gordon in Austin SignaturePOPI Classification [ ]General Business Information [x]Motorola Internal Use [ ]Motorola Confidential Proprietary > It's like a Grateful Dead concert; you can talk about it and play the > tapes as much as you want, but folks just won't get it until they > experience it for themselves. I used to didn't get it, now I need a > miracle every day. And that pre-dive dose of acid makes all the colorful fishies glow. >>It's like a Grateful Dead concert; you can talk about it and play the >>tapes as much as you want, but folks just won't get it until they >>experience it for themselves. I used to didn't get it, now I need a >>miracle every day. > > And that pre-dive dose of acid makes all the colorful fishies glow. Those are fishies? I thought they were all really slow butterflies. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur > >>It's like a Grateful Dead concert; you can talk about it and play the > >>tapes as much as you want, but folks just won't get it until they [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Those are fishies? I thought they were all really slow butterflies. Seriously, a few years back someone posted here (rec.scuba) the question of where he could get someone to fill his SCUBA tank with a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide so that he could experience the two highs simultaneously. I wonder if that guy is still alive... Roll away the dew, Gordon in Austin SignaturePOPI Classification [ ]General Business Information [x]Motorola Internal Use [ ]Motorola Confidential Proprietary |
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