2017 is last year for Malpelo Island trips!

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2017 IS THE LAST YEAR TO DIVE MALPELO ISLAND!
Due to new rules 2017 will be the last year that liveaboards head to Malpelo Island! Now is the time to secure a space on one of our exclusive 2017 Malpelo trips!

Malpelo Island on Yemaya Liveaboard
4-14 July 2017

From 4,465 USD (depending on cabin type)
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Malpelo Island on Yemaya Liveaboard
25 Aug-4 Sept 2017

From 4,465 USD (depending on cabin type)
VIEW TRIP DETAILS

Price includes: 11 days/10 nights on Yemaya, 7 days diving at Malpelo Island (3-4 dives per day), tanks/air/weights/weight belts, FREE Nitrox, 3 meals per day onboard, snacks, non-alcoholic drinks, and return transfers between Panama City and Yemaya Liveaboard on the day of embarkation and disembarkation. Not included is a marine park fee of 560 USD.

Trip overview: Malpelo Island is a Unesco World Heritage Site isolated in the Pacific 314 miles west of Colombia and accessed by liveaboard from Panama City. This sinister and forbidding island is an isolated seamount with sheer cliffs rising 4000 metres above the ocean floor and surrounded by a dozen satellite rocks, each with their own appeal. Similar to Cocos Island and Galapagos, Malpelo is a place where you can encounter huge schools of Hammerhead Sharks, but uniquely you also find large congregations of Silky Sharks. These two shark species often mix to form colossal Shark Schools that define many divers experience at Malpelo! Our trip has been specifically timed for the May-September period as this is the best time of year to witness the huge schools of Silky Sharks and also coincides with the Whale Shark and Humpback Whale season. The Hammerheads are year-round residents at Malpelo so they’ll be there to entertain us too!

To book email info@equatordiving.com
 
I have heard lots of great things about Malpelo : )

Do you have a link to the new rules? Are there just no trips leaving Panama after 2017 or does this include the boats from Colombia?
 
Not only the taxes (Parques Nacionales) become very high (2016 : 62 usd / day for any foreign diver or instruct.), but it's a desire of Colombians not to let boats operating from foreign countries enter the sanctuary of Malpelo.
That's why Inula, Yemaya or Undersea Hunter, for example, have to operate from Colombia or stop the trips...
 
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