Atlantis Puerto Galera Dive Centre
Atlantis Puerto Galera Dive Centre is a 5 Star PADI Career Development Center, one of only few dive centers with such a rating in the region. Training from beginner to instructor level is possible. You will find the highest standard of dive education, fantastic facilities and well trained, friendly dive guides. Explore some of the 30+ close dive sites or do one of the many dive courses they can offer. Explore Nitrox, technical diving or Rebreather adventures or as the place to start a career in diving, Atlantis offers it all. The dive shop is very impressive and underwater photographers love their camera room.
Dive Service
Diving is very flexible with local dives offerd at 9am, 11am, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm (night dives available every day). Choice of dive site each time and small groups (no more than 6 people).
Day Trips (three tank days) are on offer as well. Visit Verde Island and the Hot Springs of Chicken Feather Island. Enjoy some of the best diving with a fantastic BBQ lunch cooked on the beach.
•Underwater Photography Services
•High quality rental equipment
•Spacious comfortable boats
•Fresh beach towel every day, snacks and drinking water
•Hot water shower in the dive shop
•Multiple compressors for Air, Nitrox and Trimix
•Your equipment carried for you
•PADI CDC Center and TDI facility
•PADI Courses from beginner to Divemaster and Instructor Level
•Most PADI Specialty courses on offer
•Discover Scuba Diving for not-yet-divers
•Training pool and fully equipped classroom
•Kids Diving
•Marine Life Presentations
Camera Room
Atlantis Puerto Galera Dive Centre has one of the most spacious camera facilities you will find in any dive resort worldwide. It is equally like the sister dive centre in Dumaguete. There are 21 individual cubbyholes to store equipment, a work surface 0cm deep and a total of nearly 14m long and floor space of over 21 square meters.
Five air-guns are positioned around the room, 16 sets of power sockets in both 220 and 110 volts, paper towel dispensers for cleaning O-Rings, a shelf running the length of the work surface for battery chargers and eight fluorescent under-shelf lights for additional illumination for the all important O-Ring check. The room is climate controlled for comfortable working conditions and also has a 42-inch HD flat-screen TV mounted on the wall with both HDMI and USB connections. Guest can now show off their photos and video on the big screen at the end of a days great diving!
Fluro Night Dives
Using a special filtered blue light and a yellow mask visor you will see:
•Corals and Anemones stand out in neon colours
•Lizardfish and Spearer Mantis Shrimp glow an eerie green colour
•Scorpionfish emit a redish-purple luminance
•Hermit Crabs appear illuminated from within
•Seagrass take on a reddish-hue
•Nudibranchs glow like they have been plugged into the mains
Night diving using 'blue light' is a whole new unique experience where you can witness first hand the magic of fluorescence!
Dive sites
Puerto Galera has some of the most diverse coral reef diving in South East Asia, located at the very heart of the 'Coral Triangle'. There is everything from a basic dive to dives in strong currents. The reefs are well protected by the local dive schools. Coral and fish life are recovering very well from earlier abuse by dynamite fishing and give a very good idea of the biodiversity of Philippine's marine life.
Highlights are the dive sites around Verde Island with beautifully overgrown cliffs, good fish life and strong currents, The Canyons, also with strong currents, great coral growth and an abundance of fish. Nudibranch City has an incredible variety of sea slugs and the Sabang Bay is a great place for macro photography with pygmy seahorses, frog fish, nudibranches, scorpion fish and much more. Diving is possible all year round with good visibility most of the time and moderate currents.
