Parcela Marina

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What you'll see (21)

Broadbill SwordfishXiphias gladiusseen 12× near here

Ecuadorian Hermit CrabCoenobita compressusseen 11× near here

Pyramid Sea StarPharia pyramidataseen 9× near here

Mexican HogfishBodianus diplotaeniaseen 8× near here

Panamic Sergeant MajorAbudefduf troscheliiseen 8× near here

Little Arabian CowriePseudozonaria arabiculaseen 8× near here

Longspined PorcupinefishDiodon holocanthusseen 7× near here

Stokes's ChitonChiton stokesiiseen 7× near here

Cortez Rainbow WrasseThalassoma lucasanumseen 6× near here

Sally Lightfoot CrabGrapsus grapsusseen 6× near here

Diomedes' SapsuckerElysia diomedeaseen 5× near here

Black-nosed ButterflyfishJohnrandallia nigrirostrisseen 5× near here

Acapulco MajorStegastes acapulcoensisseen 5× near here

Painted Ghost CrabOcypode gaudichaudiiseen 4× near here

Three-banded ButterflyfishChaetodon humeralisseen 4× near here

Panamic Cushion StarPentaceraster cumingiseen 4× near here

Needle Sea UrchinDiadema mexicanumseen 4× near here

Dusky SergeantAbudefduf concolorseen 4× near here

Cortez AngelfishPomacanthus zonipectusseen 4× near here

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 3× near here

Razor SurgeonfishPrionurus laticlaviusseen 3× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

19,494km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 2 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Mar, Jul, Aug, Dec.

From 2,274 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~47h 27m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightGalápagos, Baltra (GPS)~27h 6mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~17h 51mLiveaboard only for Darwin and Wolf, and the permits are rationed.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatParcela Marina~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Parcela Marina on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Galápagos, Baltra

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Isla Salango
Country: Ecuador
Marks: 1°35.565'S 80°51.756'W
Position: -1.5928, -80.8626

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.