Marchena & Pinta Dive Sites

Marchena

West of Genovesa, Marchena is an active shield volcano with its last eruption in 1991. There are no land sites with three quarters of the island are covered with black lava and several fumaroles (steam vents).

It is very dry and hot here. Except for diving it is seldom visited. Underwater you might see cownose rays, turtles, schooling hammerheads and schools of mullet snappers, grunts, surgeonfish, spotted morays, scorpionfish, and the endemic Galapagos garden eel.

Marchena information

Pinta

Possibly best known as the home of Lonesome George, this elongated island is the northernmost of Galapagos's active volcanoes. The fresh lava flows lacking vegetation cover the southeast and northern flanks of the island which last reported eruption was in 1928. Swallow-tailed gulls, marine iguanas, fur seals can be seen here. The dive site is on the northern edge of the island where divers can view red-lipped batfish, sea lions, turtles, rays, and occasionally dolphins.

Pinta information

See more Galapagos Dive videos on our You Tube Channel  youtube/galapagosdive