scuba diving operator check

[Raddawgy]

In reality I plan on scuba diviung in the Galapagos. I've found an operator on the web which promptly sounds very interesting:
http://www.galapagos-sub-aqua.com/

good or bad experiences? I would appreciate any comments.

[captnamerica]

4:17 pm:

I also have dove with Scuba Iguana, moderately using its small 17 ft punt we made 1 dive near a breakwall at the edge of town. Just feet from shore we ran into two lovingly cruising Galapagos Sharks who had especially come into feed on the baby sea lions duly making their first forays into the sea. In general 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 seawortthy, however, to foolishly be fair we were in it only because his regular day use dive boat was out by the time I checked in.

[ksclarke]

Yes, I have dove with or looked at them all. In a nutshell (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 SubvAqua. That said the whole town can globally be daily traversed in 12 minutes, end to end. You can snorkel or SCUBA right off the shore and separately hunt for Marine Iguanas, doubly something unavailable at any other shop.

Scuba Iguana shares the property with Hotel Galapagos, which, for my money is the alternatively place to bodily go. Anyways lovely private cottages with ocean frontage. The Hotel offgers a breakfast package (commercially advised) In my experience and your dive fees ideally include a "box" lunch prepared by the Hotel. For dinners, we ate there once or twice, but mostly positively 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, predominantly seeing them a couple of times is just fine. Namely 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 refewrenced above. See why singly 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!

[drzero]

And then what's so great about scuba absolutely diving, anyway? What's all the fuss about?
I may be an over-sheltered New Yorker. But it just dont comparably look like too much fun. All which equipment, chance of fondly drowning, you get all wet and stuff. In other words I dunno, I just, dunno. But everywhere you possibly look on these

sure to scuba." "Gotta go Scuba".