Dive Review of
Atlantis Beach Resort in
Philippines/Dumaguete

Sipadan, Galapagos, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Truk, Palau, Yap,
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Dive Conditions

Depth limits  

Good Camera rinse buckets at resort, small buckets on dive boats  

Overall Rating

Atlantis Beach Resort, Dumaguete, Philippines
April, 2004
John Crossley

Dumaguete is a pretty nice town accessible directly from flights from
Manila.  The Atlantis resort is just a 30 minute ride south of the airport.
 This is a very nice resort in a grove of palm trees, with 35 very
comfortable air conditioned rooms, a good pool, and an excellent restaurant
with an American Chef (Jake from New York) who really goes the extra mile
to find out what you like and then make it the way you like it.  Breakfast
starts it off with a big buffet with many western and Asian choices.

The Atlantis dive operation is very professional and well organized, and
they know how to treat photographers.  The two wooden pangas can carry 10
to 12 divers, but we never had more than six divers with our two guides. 
Apo Island trips are arranged every couple of days, and this is the most
marketed dive site. It’s a long boat ride (90 minutes) but it has really
nice soft corals when the current is flowing, plus lots of tropical fish, a
few turtles, sea snakes, and good visibility.  However, I thought the best
diving was at the numerous shallow sites along the black sand beach close
to the resort.  Two small wrecks have a great variety of macro critters
including ghost pipefish, nudibranchs, lionfish, banded pipefish, decorator
crabs, gobies, shrimps, frog fish, dragonettes, sand dollars, etc.  We saw
several Pegasus sea moths on several dives too, plus juvenile cuttlefish,
snake eels, and other macro critters.  There was also a Mandarin Fish dive
at dusk, but we barely saw three of them.  Overall this is a very nice
resort with great food and excellent macro diving.


 

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