Galapagos Aggressor - Captain's Logs

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Galapagos Aggressor Captain’s Report August 1 – 8, 2013

Conditions:
South: water temp: 66-70 °F. Visibility: 45 ft. Current: 1 Knot
North: water temp: 70 °F. Visibility: 50 ft. Current: 2-3 Knots
West: water temp: 58-62 °F. Visibility: 60-70 ft.

Guests: Arturo, Derek, Dustin, Tyra, Bryan, Chris, Chidanan, Nanticha, Natalie, Christianne, Wei, Li-Ting, Neal, Faith, Matt and Kristal

Crew: Hector (Captain), Walter and Nelson (Dive Masters & Naturalist Guides), Junior (First Mate and Panga Driver), Dario (Sailor & Panga Driver), Alfredo (Chef), Javier Ch. (Chef Assistant), Jonathan (Waiter), and Manuel (Engineer)

Recommendations: Bring your 7 mm wetsuit or dry suit, hood is recommended, gloves mandatory. Maybe a double layer like a shorty can be nice! This week the temperature of the water was colder than the previous weeks.

This past week of diving was a lot of fun. We were diving south, central, north and west of the Archipelago of Galapagos and we saw absolutely almost everything you can possibly see when you come to the Galapagos Islands for a week of diving.

We started with a check out dive in a calm bay between Santa Cruz and Baltra and from that point on every dive just got better and better. We found schools of hammerheads, barracudas, eagle rays, golden rays, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, whale sharks, many Mola Molas, seahorses, manta ray, marine iguanas, penguins. We saw them all very close. Also king angels, salemas, lots of red-lipped batfish, marble rays, countless species of tropical and colorful fish, seahorses, scorpion fish, and maybe ten different varieties of morays and eels.

In the Santa Cruz Island highlands where we also did a land tour, there were a lot of Galapagos giant tortoises. The lava tunnels were also fun to go to and explore.

Special Events:
We celebrated both Derek’s and Chris’ birthdays and Wei made her 400^th dive with us!

WE SAW ORCAS HUNTING AT DARWIN ISLAND! THIS WAS THE BEST SHOW IN THE WEEK

Thanks for joining us onboard the Galapagos Aggressor!

 

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Galapagos Aggressor Captain’s Report August 8 – 15, 2013

This week we were diving south-central, north and west of the archipelago of Galapagos and we saw pretty much everything you can see when you come to the Galapagos Islands for a week of diving.

Conditions:
South: water temp: 66-70 °F. Visibility: 50 ft. Current: 1 Knot.
North: water temp: 70 -74 °F. Visibility: 50 -70 ft. Current: 2-3 Knot
West: water temp: 58-62 °F. Visibility: 60-70 ft.

Recommendation: Bring your 7 mm wetsuit or dry suit, hood is recommended, gloves mandatory.

We started with a check out dive in a calm bay between Santa Cruz and Baltra islands. After this every dive just got better and better. We found schools of hammerheads, barracudas, eagle rays, golden rays, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, whale sharks, many Mola Molas, manta ray, marine iguanas, penguins, king angelfish, salemas, lots of red-lipped batfish, marble rays, countless of species of tropical and colorful fish, seahorses, scorpionfish, and many different morays and eels.

This was a great week and after diving we ventured into the highlands of Santa Cruz Island where there are a lot of Galapagos giant tortoises. We also visited the lava tunnels, which are always fun to visit.

Guests: Mike, Chris, Suzan, Steve, Gil, Tirso, Robert, Tamara, Keiko and Hiroshi, Fernando and Beatriz, Boris, Denis, Sergey, and Andrey.

Crew: Hector – Captain, Walter and Ruben - Dive masters and Naturalist guides, Junior - First mate and Panga driver, Dario - Sailor and Panga driver, Alfredo - Chef, Javier - Chef assistant, Jonathan – Waiter, and Manuel - Engineer.

Special Events: We celebrated Sergey’s Birthday.

Hope to see you soon onboard the Galapagos Aggressor!

 

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Galapagos Aggressor Captain’s Report August 29 – September 5, 2013

Guests: Katsuhiko, Shiho, Nicha, Paphaporn, Miguel, Pedro, Dario, Jorge, Kim, Ed, Terry, Anita, Martin, Jesse, Alexsandar.

Crew: John (Captain), Walter and Ruben (Dive masters and Naturalist guides), Junior (First mate and panga driver), Dario (Sailor and Panga driver), Alfredo (Chef), Jonathan (Chef assistant), George (Waiter), Manuel (Engineer)

Conditions:
South: water temp: 66-70°F Visibility: 50 ft Current: 1 Knot.
North: water temp: 70 -74°F Visibility: 50 -70 ft Current: 2-3 Knot
West: water temp: 58-62°F Visibility: 60-70 ft
Recommendations: Bring your 7 mm wetsuit or dry suit. A hood is recommended and gloves are mandatory.

This past week of diving was lots of fun. We were diving in the regions of south-central, north and west in the archipelago of Galapagos .We started with a check out dive in a calm bay between Santa Cruz and Baltra Islands, and from that point on every dive just got better and better. We found schools of hammerheads, barracudas, eagle rays, golden rays, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, whale sharks, and many Mola Mola. We also spotted seahorses, manta ray, marine iguanas, penguins, king angelfish, salemas, red-lipped batfish, marble rays, countless species of tropical and colorful fish, scorpion fish, and many varieties of morays and eels.

Our final charter day at Santa Cruz Island we visited the highlands where there were a lot of Galapagos giant tortoises. We followed this with a trip to view the lava tunnels that are always fun to go.

Thanks for joining us onboard the Galapagos Aggressor. This was a great week!
Walter - Instructor

 

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Galapagos Aggressor Captain's Report September 5 - 12, 2013

GUESTS: Sitnikov, Oleg, Pavel, Lion, Marina, Elena, Mikhael, Igor,Igor, Dmitry, Dmitry E. , James & Mary, Takako , Eiji, Sergey.

CREW: Jhon (Captain), Walter and Ruben (Divemasters & Naturalist guides), Junior (First mate and Panga driver), Omar (Sailor and Panga driver), Alfredo (Chef), Jonathan(Chef assistant), George (waiter), Manuel (Engineer)

CONDITIONS:
South: water temp.:64-70 °F. Visibility:50 Ft. Current: 1 Knot.
North: water temp.: 70 -74 °F. Visibility: 50 -70 Ft. Current: 2-3 Knot
West: water temp.: 55-62 °F. Visibility: 20-30

We started with a check out dive in a nice bay between Santa Cruz and Baltra. This week we found schools of hammer heads, barracudas, eagle rays, golden rays, Galapagos Silky Sharks, whale sharks, many Mola Mola, sea horse, marine Iguanas , Penguins, king angels, Salemas, lots of red lipped batfish, marble rays, countless of species of tropical and colorful fish, sea horses, scorpion fish, morays and eels.

Thanks for an amazing week onboard the Galapagos Aggressor!
Walter Torres - Instructor