Scuba Diving in Dumaguete
The frogfish capital of the Philippines, Dumaguete, with its black volcanic sandy beaches, offers divers a great opportunity to see unique macro marine life on sandy patches, hard coral reefs, and artificial reefs (including cars, various structures, and more!).
From Dumaguete, you can dive over 20 coastal dive sites, the healthy reefs around Apo Island with over 400 documented species of corals (that’s 65% of the world’s corals!), the vibrant walls of Siquijor, and snorkeling with whale sharks in Oslob!
- All levels, including beginners
- Easy
- Intermediate, good buoyancy required
- Adventurous – Advanced divers with significant experience
- Technical or deep diver training recommended
- For pure tech dives, see the tech diving section
Atlantis Dive Shop
Our state of the art dive facilities support all levels of recreational divers, Nitrox as well as re-breather and technical diving. Not only do we have the top dive operation in the area but many of our guides are instructors as well as being the best spotters in the Philippines.
Whether you use us as your base from which to explore thirty or more close dive sites; the place to start your adventures and become certified; your introduction to Nitrox, technical diving or Re-breather adventures; or as the place to start a career in diving; we have it all.
Highest Standard of Dive Education
- SSI Training
- SSI Courses from Try Diver to Dive Guide
- Most SSI Specialty courses available
- Try Diving for want-to- be-divers
- One-on-one instruction available
- Training pool and fully equipped classroom onsite
First Class Facilities
- 60 Individual purpose-built equipment storage cubby-holes keep your equipment dry and organized
- High quality rental equipment
- Spacious comfortable boats
- Purpose built training pool
- 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
Flexible Dive Options
- Local Dives at 8:30am, 10:30am, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm (night dives available every day)
- Choice of dive site each time (talk to our guides about where you want to go and what you want to see)
- Small groups (no more than 6 people)
- Most dive spots within ten minutes of the resort
- Private dives available
- Day Trips to Verde Island (Puerto Galera) and Apo Island and Oslob (Dumaguete)
Marine Life & Destination Presentations
- Learn more about the underwater world with detailed critter presentations
- Discover new adventures on our liveaboard with our destination presentations
- Enjoy entertaining and educational videos such as John Bennett’s world breaking 330m/1,000ft dive filmed by National Geographic
Camera Facilities
Dumaguete has a spacious climate controlled camera room for comfortable pre-dive camera preparation. The room has 30 cubby holes for individual storage.
There are air guns distributed around the room as well as power sockets (110 and 220 volts) and paper towel dispensers. A shelf running the length of the work surface provides space for battery chargers. Six fluorescent wall lights provided additional illumination. The room also has 2 internet-ready desktop PC’s for guests to view their photos.
Dive Sites in Dauin
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- 1. Mainit
- 2. San Miguel North
- 3. San Miguel Tires
- 4. San Miguel Reef
- 5. Atlantis House Reef
- 6. Sahara Reef
- 7. Sahara Deep
- 8. Punta
- 9. Ceres
- 10. Shallow Cars
- 11. Cars
- 12. Dauin Norte
- 13. Dauin Sur
- 14. Ginama-an
- 15. Masaplod Norte
- 16. Pyramids
- 17. Masaplod Sur
- 18. Bahura
Dive Sites in Apo Island
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- 19. Largahan
- 20. Baluarte
- 21. Chapel Point
- 22. Katipanan
- 23. Rock Point West
- 24. Coconut Point
- 25. Cogon Point
- 26. Mamsa Point
- 27. Kan-uran
- 28. Marine Sanctuary
- 29. Rock Point East
Dive Sites in Siquijor Island
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- 30. Ma-iti
- 31. Paliton Wall Sur
- 32. Paliton Wall Norte
- 33. Tambisan
I just finished spending a week with Atlantis Dive for the ScubaBoard Invasion. I can't say enough about the customer service. They are the best. Everyone knew us by name as soon as we walked in the door. Amazing! The staff knew us.. They knew what we wanted, and how we wanted it.
The food is second to none.. Amazing food! Along with the amazing food, they went out of their way to prepare it the way you wanted it. Gluten free diet? Boom! There it is. Fabulous food.
The dive staff is very disciplined and organized. They loaded and set up our gear every morning... Between dives, they swapped our tanks. All we had to do was analyze our own tanks and dive.
Back to the food... Breakfast.. Every morning we had a glass of fresh juice.. (Mango, watermelon, pineapple, whatever). It was always a surprise... Excellent! And they gave us a plate of fruit.. Banana, watermelon, mango, pineapple.. Whatever they had). Excellent!
The room was comfortable for the most part.. I wasn't fond of the mattress. It was rock hard.. The hot water is solar, so it was randomly hot. It wasn't cold.. Just not hot.. It could have been my timing...
Overall, the place is outstanding, and the staff is wonderful! I hope I can come back...
Scuba-ObsessionMelbourne, Florida
I have just returned from a week at each resort and all I can say is that both of these resorts are great. I am a well traveled diver and have done numerous live aboard in Indonesia and the Caribbean, and I was not disappointed at the quality of service or diving. The resorts are clean, the food and service are excellent. The dive guides and diving was excellent. If possible, would definitely host. Andy, his staff and crew are outstanding. If you come and stay and experience their service you will not be unhappy.
Greg LukenSlidell, Louisiana
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