Scuba Diving in Puerto Galera
From wide angle to macro, Puerto Galera offers over 40 dive sites along its coast, with great diversity: from relaxed critter diving (haven for photographers!) with an abundance of reef fish, to wonderful drift dives,a couple of small wrecks, and a day trip to the incredible Verde Island. With several inner bays offer shallow coral gardens and sandy patches, while the outer bay walls offer incredibly vivid corals, with canyons, swim throughs, rock formations and a couple of small wrecks with heaps of reef fish.
- 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 and Anilao (Puerto Galera) and Apo Island, Siquijor, Oslob and Sumilon (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
Puerto Galera 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 Puerto Galera
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- 1. Odie’s Wall
- 2. Manila Channel
- 3. Coral Garden
- 4. Batangas Channel
- 5. Ship Yard
- 6. The Hill
- 7. Giant Clam
- 8. Big LaLaguna
- 9. Dry Dock
- 10. LaLaguna Point
- 11. Small LaLaguna
- 12. Alma Jane
- 13. Sabang Wreck
- 14. Sabang Bay
- 15. The Sea Grass
- 16. Sabang Point
- 17. Monkey Beach
- 18. Ernie’s Point
- 19. Dungon Wall
- 20. Wreck Point
- 21. West Escarceo
- 22. Hole In The Wall
- 23. Canyons
- 24. Fish Bowl
- 25. Horse Head
- 26. Shark Cave
- 27. Atoll
- 28. Kilima Steps
- 29. Kilima Drift
- 30. Sinandigan Wall
- 31. Turtle Rock
- 32. Coral Cove
- 33. Boulders
- 34. Japanese Wreck
- 35. Drop Off
- 36. Washing Machine
- 37. Coral Garden
- 38. Hot Spring
- 39. East Side