Very few Class III guides are now working in the islands. Instead a new generation of bilingual national Class II guide is receiving training at the National Park by the Charles Darwin Research Station . Special interest trips including Photography and Birding often have a tour leader accompanying the guide. Tour Leaders are not necessarily trained at the Darwin Station nor holders of an appropriate license. Instead they are experts in the field and have come to the Galapagos to hold a seminar or seminars on their subject of expertise.
Trips featuring dive itineraries have dive guides.
These guides hold both a Galapagos Guide License and a separate Dive License. Many of the boats that take diving seriously will have a dive leader on board as well. This person may not have the Galapagos Guide License, but often has had much more experience running dive trips abroad, often in the Caribbean.