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#648
 Galapagos Suiting Question - Wet or Dry?
Hank-NYC - 10/28/2017 5:51 PM
Category: Travel
Replies: 3
I’m heading to the Galapagos next May. I’m wondering if it is better to dive in a drysuit or a 7 or 9MM?
This will be my first time there. I’m reading in reviews that you could go either way but those reviews are pretty old. Any advice?
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LatitudeAdjustment - 10/29/2017 10:38 AM
Hank, how about old advice from an old diver? I did it in a 7 mil and was sometimes chilled because in places like Landslide you anchor yourself to the rocks and watch the parade go by, but not swimming meant you were not making heat and the current is flushing your wetsuit. The good news is you are so busy watching the sharks, eagle rays, hammerheads, dolphins, Galapagos sharks and silkies that you never feel the chill until you start up.

On the other hand during a SI we had a humpback with a calf being escorted by dolphins and being dive bombed by seals and birds. If that had been the whole trip we would have been happy but those trying to keep up snorkeling in drysuits just couldn’t keep up :(
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Hank-NYC - 10/29/2017 12:24 PM
Hi @LatitudeAdjustment!

Thanks for your thoughts, I didn’t consider the possibility of snorkeling. I’ve only been in a dry suit for a few days of diving. So, I know what you mean about the struggles when snorkeling.

Thanks again!!!
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LatitudeAdjustment - 10/30/2017 7:00 AM
From Hank-NYC: I didn’t consider the possibility of snorkeling

I had a folding snorkel in a BC pocket, when we surfaced from a dive and the panga driver told us to break out the snorkels many of the divers had left theirs in the gear bag back on the liveaboard :(

Besides the humpbacks we got to snorkel with a pod of Pilot whales passing thru and the penguins so definitely have one ready!