Punta Vicente Roca North

The northern face of Vicente Roca is a dramatic underwater landscape of collapsed lava tubes, caverns, and towering black walls draped in cold-water corals and Muricidae sea snails that are found almost nowhere else. The intense Cromwell Current upwelling creates a nutrient soup that feeds dense populations of invertebrates unusual for tropical latitudes — sea stars, brittle stars, and nudibranchs crowd every surface. This site rewards the observant diver willing to look past the megafauna: it is arguably the finest macro diving in the Galapagos.