Atmosphere Dive Centre
The PADI 5 Star Training Centre offers daily dive excursions, dive courses from beginner up to instructor level and specialty courses. Diving guests can enjoy private dive equipment storage spaces, wireless internet, complimentary Nitrox, a camera/video room with private work space for each diver, a retail boutique, a classroom with flat screen TV, full equipment rental and a spacious briefing lobby. An experienced team of PADI divemasters and instructors run the dive shop overseen by the dive centre manager.
Dive Service
Divers are divided into small groups, usually a maximum of 4 divers have their own guide. 2 to 3 boat dives are offered each day, night dives are available as well. On request, experienced divers are allowed to dive with their buddy without a guide at the housereef if they have all necessary safety equipment. Each dive is preceeded by excellent and detailed briefings. The dive shop has 12L aluminum tanks with DIN and INT valves. 15L tanks are available as well. Nitrox is available free of charge for Nitrox certified divers.
Dives are conducted on banka style outrigger boats. 'Victoria' is a 26m (88ft) long boat for max. 20 divers and is perfect for trips to neighboring islands Apo and Siquijor. 'Eve', the resort's speedboat, is a fast 9m (30ft) long covered speed boat that will take divers to any dive site along the Dauin coastline within 15 minutes. Day trips take only 20-25 minutes and 2 dives are offered and divers are back at the resort for lunch.
Dive sites
There are around 30 dive sites on the Dauin coast, all 2-15 minutes from the resort's dive shop. Most of the dive sites are Marine Protected Areas, which has really made wonders when it comes to muck diving.
Highlights are the dive sites around Apo Island with intact coral formations and varied diving in shallow coral gardens and beautifully vegetated walls. Interesting underwater landscapes with sea fans, soft corals and feather stars offer a home for many colourful nudibranchs, moray eels, frog fish, seahorses, clown fish and sea snakes. About 450 different species of hard and soft coral have been found here. Atmosphere travels to Apo almost daily even if there is only 2 divers onboard. The trip takes only 20-25 minutes and 3 dives are offered. In addition to Apo Island the protected dive site of Masaplod offers an abundance of fish life.
The largely intact underwater world around Negros not only offers something for underwater photographers. The dive sites are accessible all year round, with mostly good to very good visibility, and generally low to medium currents. The water temperature is warm and tropical at 27-29C (81-84F), a 3 mm (1/8 inch) wetsuit should be sufficient.
House Reef
A small house reef with coral blocks and macro diving is located right in front of the resort. Here you can find resident blue octopus, turtel headed seasnakes, orangutan crabs, flamboyant cuttlefish, school of barracudas, frogfish, leaf scorpionfish, school of batfish and the only pygmy seahorses on the Dauin coast.
