Galapagos
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Best Check-Out Dive — Galápagos Sea Lions in San Cristóbal
A check-out dive often gets labeled as “just a formality” — a shallow descent to test equipment after a long flight before the real diving begins. Regulators are purged. Buoyancy is dialed in. Cameras are checked. It’s rarely the dive anyone talks about afterward. But in the Galápagos, our check-out dive off San Cristóbal Island…
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Observing Spotted Eagle Rays
The Spotted Eagle Ray is one of my favorite in the ray family. Spotted Eagle Rays are one of the most distinctive species of rays due to the white spots and ring across their dorsal surface and triangular disc or “wings”.