Will be heading to Galapagos this October on a LOB.

I'm leaning towards not bringing video lights (2 x Keldan 8XR) for a few reasons:

1. Most of the articles/posts I've read seem to suggest that video lights are probably not critical - either scaring the animals, or they would be too far in the blue anyway. Seal/iguana is shallow so ambient light would suffice

2. Strong currents so no light setup is much easier to handle

3. I am coming from Asia and this is part of a longer trip (will be in the Americas for ~2 months, potentially heading to Mexico after Galapagos), so lugging any non-essential/extra gear is a pain

Wanted to hear from those that have done Galapagos - what was your experience with video lights? Did you regret bringing/not bringing? Any tips or advice would be appreciated :)

Thanks in advance!

Late reply - sorry. No lights for big Galapagos. Yes lights for small Galapagos. Hammers dont like them. They hate them. Kill anyone in your group with their GoPro and 1000lumens light trying to make difference. There are only a couple dive sites where they can be useful for smaller life, like the red lipped batfish but you will spend 90% of your time hunting for big life so to me not worth the travel trouble.