Ecuador
This is the capital and official currency of Ecuador.
What are Quito and the US dollar?
This is a method to beginning a dive by entering the water and descending immediately without stopping at the surface.
What is a negative descent?
The capital of the Galapagos.
What is San Cristobal?
The two people on this boat that completed milestone dives this trip.
Who are Dan and Alex?
a marine animal that eats during the morning and then returns to the hot rocks to recover for the rest of the day.
What is a marine iguana?
The amount of time we crossed (or will cross) the equator.
What is 4?
The spanish name of the monument marking the equator line near Quito.
What is the "mitad del mundo?"
The full form of the acronym SCUBA.
What is a Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
These are the two islands in the Galapagos that have active volcanoes.
What are Fernandina and Isabella?
A person on this boat who has a birthday to celebrate tomorrow.
Who is Bonnie?
an animal that has evolved to drink the blood/eggs of other birds.
What is a vampire finch?
The 2 largest sharks in the Galapagos that we have seen.
What are whalesharks and hammerheads?
These are the two countries that border Ecuador.
What are Peru and Colombia?
Scuba divers are at risk to a number of pressure related hazards. This is one collective term used to describe all of these maladies.
What is barotrauma?
A cold, nutrient-rich current that feeds the Galápagos ecosystem.
What is the Humboldt current?
The number of countries we represent on this boat.
What is 7?
The most common marine mammal in the Galapagos.
What is a sea lion?
The terms for the following boat areas in order: front, right side, bathroom, left side.
What are the bow, starboard, head, and port?
Along with Spanish, this indigenous language is official in Ecuador.
What is Kichwa (Quechua)?
What is a broken toe?
The percentage of Galapagos land mass that is a national park (within 5%).
What is 97%?
The three next Immersive Dive Travel destinations.
What are Bonaire, Socorro and Belize?
a marine animal that is born 1 of up to 300 million eggs, joins a school as a juvenile where it grows rapidly, and then when large enough, leaves to live on its own (or with another).
What is a mola mola?
The name of the port and Island where we will be eating dinner tomorrow night.
What is Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz?
This is the highest mountain peak in Ecuador.
the deepest open circuit scuba dive (within 10m/33ft).
What is 332m/1,090ft?
These are the three species of booby birds that inhabit the Galapagos.
What are the Blue-footed, red-footed, and Nazca boobies?
Gildas and Lara's respective free-diving max depths.
What are 35m/115ft and 12m/40ft?
The characteristic that makes Galapagos penguins different from other penguins.
What is the penguins location above the equator?
The TV series that brought Calypso’s ocean explorations into living rooms in the 60s–70s?
What is the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau?