For safety reasons, the following information is requested about each guest’s diving experience:
- Type of diving license (level and training agency)
- Current number of dives made
- Date of last dive
- Experience with drift and wall diving
- Experience with diving in cold water and with thick wetsuits
- What would the passenger like to see in the Galapagos?

Some vessels also require a recent medical certificate verifying the diver is fit to dive and/or request that a waiver release be signed prior to diving.

In case of emergencies, there is a recompression chamber in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands. It is operated by the “Protección Submarina del Ecuador”. For their direct services as well as for administration between them and DAN or PADI, they charge USD2.00 for each dive tank on daily dive tours, and USD35.00 for live-aboard cruises up to 10 days long. Some vessels may include these fees in the rates while others will need to be paid onboard the vessel.